Lizz Wright - Dreaming Wide Awake
Artist: Lizz Wright
Title: Dreaming Wide Awake
Genre Jazz
Styles Folk/Jazz Blues/Jazz R&B Vocals
Label: Verve Forecast
Catalog: 0602498829394
Format: CD
Country: Europe
Released: 2005
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Tracklist
1 A Taste Of Honey 3:53
2 Stop 3:33
3 Hit The Ground 3:31
4 When I Close My Eyes 3:16
5 I'm Confessin' 2:58
6 Old Man 3:40
7 Wake Up, Little Sparrow 3:01
8 Chasing Strange 3:46
9 Get Together 4:44
10 Trouble 5:13
11 Dreaming Wide Awake 3:43
12 Without You 4:07
13 Narrow Dayligh 3:55 Bonus Track
Personell
Lizz Wright (vocals);
Chris Bruce, Greg Leisz, Bill Frisell (guitar);
Marc Anthony Thompson (harmonica, background vocals);
Glenn Patscha (keyboards, background vocals);
Patrick Warren (keyboards);
David Piltch (bass instrument);
Earl Harvin (drums);
Jeffrey Haynes (percussion);
Toshi Reagon (background vocals).
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Bio
Atlanta vocalist and songwriter Lizz Wright, whose gospel-infused style evokes thoughts of such artists as Sarah Vaughan and Oleta Adams, is creating a buzz as a young artist to watch. Her first demo tape provoked a flurry of interest in the jazz world and, after a showcase performance in New York, her uncommon gifts prompted The Verve Music Group to sign her welcoming her to the label of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Vaughan, Shirley Horn, Abbey Lincoln, and Diana Krall.
Barely in her twenties, Lizz Wright has already established herself as a powerful singer for a new generation and promises to take a notable place in their ranks.
Ron Goldstein, President of The Verve Music Group, Commented on the new signing: Lizz Wright is the full package great voice, charismatic stage presence, and poise way beyond her years. She makes every song a part of her life whether interpreting standards or performing her own compositions.
Wright recently recorded vocal tracks on renowned pianist Joe Samples upcoming CD, to be released in April 2002 on The Verve Music Groups GRP label. A top-selling and charting jazz artist, Joe Samples large following will help to spread the word about Lizz Wright in advance of the release of her own forthcoming debut recording on Verve.
Born January 22, 1980, Lizz Wright is from the small, southern Georgia town of Hahira. She attended Houston County High School, and received the prestigious National Choral Award. Upon graduation, Lizz attended Georgia State University in Atlanta, the city she now calls home.
My first introduction to jazz came in my father s church, relates Lizz who was also the churchs pianist and musical director. I didnt really know it as jazz then; I only knew that it was a sound that excited me. The blues were always prevalent throughout the interpretations of the gospel hymns and that is when I noticed people would wake up and begin to move, and maybe even shout or clap. Wright is most recent studies have found her at New Yorks New School, studying with Dr. Richard Harper, and in Vancouver with vocalist Dee Daniels.
In Atlanta, where she performs with the quartet In the Spirit, Wright has acquired a strong fan base and critical acclaim. In 2000, Creative Loafing, Atlanta is alternative newspaper, anointed In the Spirit the best jazz group in Atlanta and said of Lizz Wright: Wright is truly a singers singer. Her beautiful tone and exquisite phrasing, combined with just the right nuance, point to the fact that Ms. Wright may well be Ms.
Right. She has it all.In a short time, Wright has also built a reputation in the larger jazz community. Legendary bassist,producer, composer, and musical director of the Hollywood Bowls jazz orchestra, John Clayton said: It is exciting to hear the blossoming flower-voice of Lizz Wright. The beauty we now hear will blossom, grow, and give us a bouguet of expression that will be forever.
Wright is commanding range, technical assurance, and dark, opulent timbre are phenomenal in someone her age. Even rarer, she is also a songwriter of great promise, poeticism and soul; several of her songs have become standards for Atlanta fans and are fast becoming favorites at the Jazz Gallery in New York, where her performances are gathering a devoted following.I am inspired by music that portrays real life and real people, states the introspective vocalist. I have been able to find this in almost every form of music, from gospel to jazz to certain types of R&B. I enjoy vocalists whose spirits are both deep and clear. A voice that affects me is akin to cleansing or healing of those who have found a creative way to express everything from political views to very personal experiences. I aspire above all to be honest and transparent like them, and someday hope to teach others to do the same.
Lizz Wright is a new talent of radiant authenticity and beauty. Her resonant alto and singular soulfulnessoffer great promise for the future of jazz and the art of the song.
review
On her 2003 debut, Salt, Lizz Wright was hailed by People Magazine as “one of the year's most promising new voices,” a “smoky, simmering” talent, according to USA Today. Wright's new album Dreaming Wide Awake, released June 14 on Verve Forecast, finds that promise fulfilled.
Wright recorded ‘Dreaming’ at Allaire Studios in Woodstock, NY, with Craig Street (Cassandra Wilson, k.d. lang) producing, and a deep well of New York talent contributing: guitarist Bill Frisell, Grammy-winning songwriter Jesse Harris, Mark Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius), Ollabelle organist Glenn Patscha, and Toshi Reagon among others.
Three of the eleven songs on ‘Dreaming’ were written or co-written by Wright, proving that her “rapidly burgeoning writing talent” (LA Times) has now fully blossomed. From the deep-in-the-pocket, earthy soul of “Hit The Ground” (co-written with Jesse Harris and Toshi Reagon), to the buoyant Fender Rhodes groove of “Trouble,” or the hazy, aching title track, each of Wright's original compositions casts an unforgettable spell.
Elsewhere she lends her “pitch-perfect, full-bodied voice” (NY Times) to a gorgeous, melancholic reading of Joe Henry's “Stop” (first popularized by Madonna on her Music album); turns Neil Young's “Old Man,” into a dark cautionary tale; strips Ella Jenkins' “Wake Up Little Sparrow” down to a spare, zen-folk meditation; imparts the Aquarian anthem “Get Together” first popularized by the Youngbloods, with a new urgency; and recasts the Ric Marlow/Bobby Scott tune “A Taste of Honey” - best known as an early Beatles hit - as a haunting delta blues.
Lizz Wright was born in the small town of Hahira, GA. The second of three children, her father was a Holiness Church pastor, her mother the church organist. Wright grew up traveling the south, singing with her parents and siblings. She first came to national attention in 2002, when she played a series of tribute shows to the great Billie Holiday. Reviewing one of those shows, The LA Times proclaimed, with only a hint of hyperbole, “she walked on stage at the Hollywood Bowl a virtual unknown. Fifteen minutes later, she walked off a star.”
Since then, Wright has toured the world growing her audience and meeting new fans. Take a look at her tour schedule and don't miss a chance to see Lizz live...
