Lizz Wright - Salt
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Artist: Lizz WrightEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Music Label: Verve
Product features:
- WRIGHT LIZZ SALT
- Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly
- Salt
- Afro Blue
- Soon as I Get Home
- Walk With Me, Lord
- Eternity
- Goodbye
- Medley
- Fire
- Blue Rose
- Lead the Way
- Silence
Free Music Notes for Salt
Free Music Review: If you like your soul acoustic, smoky and with a touch of jazz...
Hit: 5 Stars
My best friend recently sent me the link to a video of this incredibly talented young woman singing "Salt" at the JVC Newport Jazz Festival in 2003 on YouTube. After watching the performance, it occurred to me that I hadn't reviewed the album from which the song is taken even though I've had it now for years. I still can't figure out why I didn't get round to it earlier but in the spirit of better late then never...
It's a beautiful set. Produced by Tommy LiPuma, Brian Blade and Jon Cowherd, the sound is incredibly clean. There are also no frills with her singing either; it's the pure emotion in her voice that packs the punch. That said, she does soar and she does have range. I find the way she often goes from one note to the next within the same breath, quite impressive. It's more like something I would expect from a musical instrument than from a voice and her lyrics are deep. Also, unusually, she doesn't use background vocals of any kind on any of the tunes; she simply relies on the power of her honey-coated vocals to drift soothingly through the speakers. If you like your soul acoustic, smoky and with a touch of jazz, this is definitely one for you.
Favourite tunes: the opener "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly", "Salt", "Afro Blues", (look out for Danilo Perez's acoustic piano on that one), "Soon As I Get Home", "Eternity", "Goodbye", (which features beautiful soprano sax from my man Chris Potter), "Blue Rose", (which features a short & sweet acousic guitar solo from John Hart), "Lead The Way", (with Jon Cowherd on Fender Rhodes) and the beautiful closer, "Silence".
It's all-round top quality. This is the direction someone like Idia.Arie would've been wise to go in, in my opinion, had she not apparently been hungrier for SoundScan figures than for authenticity. (How else does one explain her awful duet with Akon?)
Anyway, Wright went on to release a competent follow up, Dreaming Wide Awake in 2005. Produced by Craig Street, (he who produced that Meshell Ndegeocello album Bitter that I love so much), and sans the orchestration of "Salt" but with slide guitar, cello and other good stuff, it goes in a completely different direction. "Stop", "I'm Confessin'", "Old Man", "Chasing Strange" and "Dreaming Wide Awake" are all killer tracks. Even Bill Frisell pops up on three of the songs. I thoroughly enjoy listening to it but not quite as much as I do "Salt".
Both are highly recommended though.
Salt Poster
WRIGHT LIZZ SALTThe release of the long-anticipated debut from this talented, 20-something, Georgia-bred chanteuse shows that Norah Jones isn't the only "it girl" out there. Wright's cool contralto, which was previously heard on Joe Sample's The Pecan Tree, is a southern stew cooked with ample helpings of soul, jazz, R&B, and gospel. This CD, equally produced by Tommy LiPuma, John Cowherd, and drummer Brian Blade, features mostly mid-tempo renditions of a jazz-fusion ditty, a spiritual, a Broadway tune, a Latin number, light classical, and original compositions. Wright's vocal weight and fluent delivery echoes the talents of Lalah Hathaway, whether she?s putting her own sepia spin on Flora Purim's '70s gem "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly," Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue" (with pianist Danilo Perez), or "Soon As I Get Home" from The Wiz. Though this record is a promising debut from Wright, one gets the sense that she?s a soul singer at heart, as evidenced by the down-home title tune. One thing's for sure: the road to Lizz Wright's future is wide open with no barriers in sight. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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