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 – 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
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