# Lizz Wright – Grace 2017: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2017/09/23/lizz-wright-grace-2017-free-download-video/
- Published: 2017-09-23T18:21:22+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Though still a few years shy of 40, Lizz Wright has reached a musical maturity—
stylistically, interpretively, emotionally—that places her at the forefront of American
jazz vocalists. **

On _Grace_, her sixth studio album, Wright raises her richly burnished voice heavenward
for an inspired exploration of spiritualism. Joined by five top-tier bandmates—keyboardist
Kenny Banks, bassist David Piltch, drummer Jay Bellerose and two guitarists, Chris
Bruce and Marvin Sewell—she shapes a 10-track program that blends traditional and
contemporary spirituals with reimagined pop selections from the likes of Dylan, 
Ray Charles and k.d. lang.

Though “Singing in My Soul’ is indelibly associated with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 
Wright makes it her own with a rollicking, countrified reading. She adds a ramrod
treatment of Birds of Chicago’s “Barley,” a paean to unshakeable faith, and an aching
rendition of Canadian folk singer-songwriter Rose Cousins’ confessional “Grace.”
While Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand,” Charles’ “What Would I Do Without You,” lang’s“
Wash Me Clean” and the Nina Simone-associated “Seems I’m Never Tired Lovin’ You”
remain true to their secular foundations, all can also be construed as messages 
to a higher power. Shifting to an earthier hallowedness, Wright explores the pull
of her deep-South roots with “Stars Fell on Alabama,” gorgeously propelled by guest
guitarist Marc Ribot, and a hushed, twilit “Southern Nights.” She closes with the
album’s sole original, again straddling the secular/spiritual border with her sagely
self-aware “All the Way Here.”

 1.  Barley
 2.  Seems I’m Never Tired Lovin’ You
 3.  Singing In My Soul
 4.  Southern Nights
 5.  What Would I Do Without You
 6.  Grace
 7.  Stars Fell On Alabama
 8.  Every Grain Of Sand
 9.  Wash Me Clean
 10. All The Way Here

Lizz Wright – vocals
 Jay Bellerose – drums, percussion David Piltch – upright bass
Chris Bruce – acoustic and electric guitar Marvin Sewell – acoustic and electric
guitar Kenny Banks – piano, Hammond organ Patrick Warren – keyboards (3, 9, 10) 
Marc Ribot – electric guitar (7) Valorie Mack – backing vocals (2,5,6) Cathy Rollins–
backing vocals (2,5,6) Artia Lockett – backing vocals (2,5,6) Angela Jenifer – backing
vocals (2,5,6) Sheree-Monique – backing vocals (2,5,6) K. Heshima White – backing
vocals (2,5,6) Ted Jenifer – backing vocals (2,5,6) Kevin O’Hara – backing vocals(
2,5,6) Kenny Banks, Sr. – vocal choir director (2,5,6)

[Free download](https://dfiles.ru/files/vqsgme551)

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