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
- "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly" (Chick Corea, Neville Potter) – 5:07
- "Salt" (Lizz Wright) – 3:25
- "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaria, Oscar Brown Jr.) – 5:51
- "Soon as I Get Home" (Charlie Smalls) – 4:26
- "Walk with Me, Lord" (traditional) – 4:06
- "Eternity" (Wright) – 3:35
- "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:57
- "Vocalise/End of the Line" (Sergey Rachmaninoff/Cynthia Medley, John Edmonson) – 4:33
- "Fire" (Wright) – 4:15
- "Blue Rose" (Kenny Banks, Wright) – 4:06
- "Lead the Way" (Brian Blade) – 4:23
- "Silence" (Wright) – 2:42
Personnel
- Lizz Wright â vocals
- Jon Cowherd â piano <small>(tracks 4, 6, 8, 9, 11)</small>, Fender Rhodes <small>(4, 7, 10, 11)</small>, arrangement <small>(1, 6–10)</small>, horn arrangement <small>(2)</small>
- Kenneth Banks â Fender Rhodes <small>(1, 3)</small>, Hammond organ <small>(2, 5, 9)</small>, piano <small>(2, 10)</small>, arrangement <small>(5, 10)</small>
- John Hart - guitar <small>(1–7, 9, 11)</small>, acoustic guitar <small>(8, 10)</small>, arrangement <small>(9)</small>
- Doug Weiss â bass <small>(exc. 12)</small>, arrangement <small>(9)</small>
- Brian Blade â drums <small>(1, 4–11)</small>, acoustic guitar <small>(12)</small>, arrangement <small>(3, 7, 9, 12)</small>
- Jeff Haynes â percussion <small>(1, 3–9, 11)</small>
plus
- Sam Yahel â Hammond organ <small>(1)</small>
- Danilo Pérez â piano <small>(3)</small>
- Myron Walden â alto saxophone <small>(2, 3, 11)</small>, bass clarinet <small>(11)</small>
- Derrick Gardner â trumpet <small>(2, 3)</small>
- Vincent Gardner â trombone <small>(2, 3)</small>
- Terreon Gully â drums <small>(2, 3)</small>
- Monte Croft â vibraphone <small>(4)</small>, marimba <small>(8)</small>
- String section arranged and conducted by Jon Cowherd <small>(6, 8, 10)</small>
- Sarah Adams, Ronald Carbone, Crystal Garner â viola
- Ellen Westerman <small>(soloist on 8)</small>, Joe Kimura, Caryl Paisner, Mark Orrin Shuman â cello
- Chris Potter â soprano saxophone <small>(7)</small>
- Adam Rogers â acoustic, electric and bottleneck guitar <small>(12)</small>
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
References