Lizz Wright’s “Fellowship” is a moving feast of songs that hark back to her gospel heritage. The 12-track album is the focus of her nationwide tour, which will allow Washington area fans to savor ...

"Music lives in that place where anything can be picked up. It can become a different statement in someone else's hands than in my hands. The fact that it can be passed from hand to hand is something ...

“Freedom, would you call my name?” So goes the first lyric on Lizz Wright’s new album, “Freedom & Surrender.” This is Wright’s first album after a five-year hiatus during which she went through a ...

Lizz Wright opens her music file and tells listeners what she grooves to when she's not sampling her own work. The popular soul singer shares her appreciation for fellow artists, such as Gilberto Gil ...

Vocalist Lizz Wright mesmerized the sold-out audience at The Cabaret with her own blending of jazz, gospel, folk, and R&B in Indy Jazz Fest’s Sunset Series collaboration with The Cabaret on September ...

There is a performance by the singer Lizz Wright with her longtime accompanist, Kenny Banks Sr., of Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand” that has accumulated more than 95,000 YouTube views, several ...

Lizz Wright is an old friend of Jazz Aspen and a longtime favorite of Aspen audiences. The singer, who opens the Jazz Aspen June Experience today, has played the JAS Café, shared a bill with Jamie ...

Few musicians, that have been commercially successful and artistically praised, have, at the height of their popularity, decided to take a hiatus to discover themselves. Renowned expressive vocalist ...

With her 2003 debut album, Salt, singer Lizz Wright established herself as one of the brightest newcomers in jazz. Wright shifts course on her follow-up CD, Dreaming Wide Awake, adopting a folksy ...

When Lizz Wright left her family home in rural Hihira, Ga., a dozen or so years ago to live in a big city and become a jazz singer, she escaped her evangelist father's strict rules, including not ...

The comparisons to legendary jazz singers preceded Lizz Wright's arrival on record, and while her debut "Salt" is a stylistic amalgam like Norah Jones' debut, she hasn't been able to slide out of the ...