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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:
“Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly” (Chick Corea, Neville Potter) – 5:07
“Salt” (Lizz Wright) – 3:25
“Afro Blue” (Mongo Santamaria, Oscar Brown Jr.) – 5:51
“Soon as I Get Home” (Charlie Smalls) – 4:26
“Walk with Me, Lord” (traditional) – 4:06
“Eternity” (Wright) – 3:35
“Goodbye” (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:57
“Vocalise/End of the Line” (Sergey Rachmaninoff/Cynthia Medley, John Edmonson) – 4:33
“Fire” (Wright) – 4:15
“Blue Rose” (Kenny Banks, Wright) – 4:06
“Lead the Way” (Brian Blade) – 4:23
“Silence” (Wright) – 2:42

Personnel:
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)

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Released: 13 May 2003
Recorded: August & December 2002
Studio: Right Track Studios, New York, NY
Length: 50:30
Label: Verve
Producer: Tommy LiPuma, Brian Blade, Jon Cowherd