SEP 7–10 | Season Opening Week
Sep 07 - Sep 10, 2023
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
Opening Night 9|7: Members enjoy complimentary wine and more as we continue to celebrate the organization’s 40th anniversary!
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 delivering Swing Era standards associated with Billie Holiday, she’s continued in recent years as a singer/songwriter whose music eludes definition. For these special 2023-24 Season Opening Week concerts, Wright will be performing music from her forthcoming new album Shadow, which blends together jazz, blues, R&B and soul. The performance will also include a wide range of cover songs from Cole Porter to Candi Staton and more.
A quartet of albums on the Verve label, beginning with 2003’s Salt and concluding with the gospel-infused Fellowship from 2010, established Wright as a major artist whose reach wasn’t bound by the limits of any one genre. Since the release of Fellowship, Wright has been continually working in varying settings with a number of sublimely talented women including drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s GRAMMY-winning Mosaic Project and a touring tribute to Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln and Odetta featuring fellow vocalists Dianne Reeves and Angelique Kidjo.
After Wright’s GRAMMY-nominated 2015 Concord Records album Freedom & Surrender and the 2017 follow-up Grace, her newest venture is the establishment of her own label, Blues & Greens Records, and its debut release, 2022’s live date Holding Space.
In describing the inimitable voice of Lizz Wright, JazzTimes enthuses: “(her) soul-jazz lilt – soft as peach fuzz yet iron-sturdy – is the musical equivalent of a protective hug from a keenly empathetic friend.”
Highly acclaimed vocalist, who blends together jazz, blues, and R&B kicks off the 2023-24 Season debuting music from her forthcoming new album, Shadow.
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Wright's soul-jazz lilt – soft as peach fuzz yet iron-sturdy – is the musical equivalent of a protective hug from a keenly empathetic friend.
JazzTimes
Wright's soul-jazz lilt – soft as peach fuzz yet iron-sturdy – is the musical equivalent of a protective hug from a keenly empathetic friend.
JazzTimes
Personnel
Lizz Wright vocals
Marvin Sewell guitar
Kenny Banks keys
Ben Zwerin bass
Ivan Edwards drums
Lizz Wright is celebrated for one thing in particular: her sumptuously earthy voice, which commands strict and often spine-tingling attention.
The New York Times
Personnel
Lizz Wright vocals
Marvin Sewell guitar
Kenny Banks keys
Ben Zwerin bass
Ivan Edwards drums
Lizz Wright is celebrated for one thing in particular: her sumptuously earthy voice, which commands strict and often spine-tingling attention.
The New York Times
Watch & Listen
Lizz Wright
The New Game
Lizz Wright
Grace
Lizz Wright
The New Game
Lizz Wright
Grace
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