Salt (Lizz Wright album)

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
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 * 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)
 * 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