Salt (Lizz Wright album)

Salt
Studio album by Lizz Wright
Released	13 May 2003
Recorded	August & December 2002
Studio	Right Track Studios, New York, NY
Genre	Jazz, soul
Length	50:30
Label	Verve
Producer	Tommy LiPuma, Brian Blade, Jon Cowherd
Lizz Wright chronology
Salt (2003) Dreaming Wide Awake (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	(favourable)
Allmusic
Vibe
Washington Post	(favourable)

Salt is the first album by singer and composer Lizz Wright, released in 2003 on Verve Records. The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz chart and No. 4 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing

1. "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly" (Chick Corea, Neville Potter) – 5:07
2. "Salt" (Lizz Wright) – 3:25
3. "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaria, Oscar Brown Jr.) – 5:51
4. "Soon as I Get Home" (Charlie Smalls) – 4:26
5. "Walk with Me, Lord" (traditional) – 4:06
6. "Eternity" (Wright) – 3:35
7. "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:57
8. "Vocalise/End of the Line" (Sergey Rachmaninoff/Cynthia Medley, John Edmonson) – 4:33
9. "Fire" (Wright) – 4:15
10. "Blue Rose" (Kenny Banks, Wright) – 4:06
11. "Lead the Way" (Brian Blade) – 4:23
12. "Silence" (Wright) – 2:42

Personnel

• Lizz Wright – vocals
• Jon Cowherd – piano (tracks 4, 6, 8, 9, 11), Fender Rhodes (4, 7, 10, 11), arrangement (1, 6–10), horn arrangement (2)
• Kenneth Banks – Fender Rhodes (1, 3), Hammond organ (2, 5, 9), piano (2, 10), arrangement (5, 10)
• John Hart - guitar (1–7, 9, 11), acoustic guitar (8, 10), arrangement (9)
• Doug Weiss – bass (exc. 12), arrangement (9)
• Brian Blade – drums (1, 4–11), acoustic guitar (12), arrangement (3, 7, 9, 12)
• Jeff Haynes – percussion (1, 3–9, 11)

plus

• Sam Yahel – Hammond organ (1)
• Danilo Pérez – piano (3)
• Myron Walden – alto saxophone (2, 3, 11), bass clarinet (11)
• Derrick Gardner – trumpet (2, 3)
• Vincent Gardner – trombone (2, 3)
• Terreon Gully – drums (2, 3)
• Monte Croft – vibraphone (4), marimba (8)
• String section arranged and conducted by Jon Cowherd (6, 8, 10)
  • Sarah Adams, Ronald Carbone, Crystal Garner – viola
  • Ellen Westerman (soloist on 8), Joe Kimura, Caryl Paisner, Mark Orrin Shuman – cello
• Chris Potter – soprano saxophone (7)
• Adam Rogers – acoustic, electric and bottleneck guitar (12)

Production

• Tommy LiPuma, Brian Blade, Jon Cowherd - production
• Joe Ferla - recording
• Andrew Felluss, Chris Fama, David Perini, Jason Stasium - second engineers
• Al Schmidt - mixing
• Steve Genewick - mixing assistant
• Doug Sax and Robert Hadley - mastering
• Hollis King - art direction
• Rika Ichiki - design
• Bill Phelps - photography