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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now a quarter of a century into her career, R&B/jazz singer Lizz Wright is reaping the benefits of that longevity. With her stunning new record, the magnificent Shadow, Wright got to work with her ...

Acclaimed vocalist Lizz Wright embraces her newfound freedom with a classic recording that encapsulates an illustrious 20-year career since the release of her debut album, Salt (Verve, 2003). Wright's ...

Singer Lizz Wright is special. The deliriously flattering reviews that followed her extraordinary debut album, Salt, informed us of that. She's the new thing, the fresh voice with the captivating ...

There’s a majesty here, and spiritual authority. Not just her stature, but the full-length blue dress, hand and arm movements nourished by the music, as well as leading it on - all of these evoke and ...

When Grady Tate sits at the drums, a singer can relax, knowing that a more than functional timekeeper is governing the rhythm section. Having taken the seat behind Ella and Sarah and Lena, he ...

NEW YORK — A five-year recording hiatus didn’t stop Lizz Wright from reclaiming a spot at the top of the Billboard jazz charts with her new release, “Freedom & Surrender.” It’s a fresh start for the ...

With a luxuriant voice redolent of the red soil that sustained her growing up in Georgia, Lizz Wright sanctifies every song she sings. While the highly-acclaimed vocalist first gained attention ...