Dreaming Wide Awake
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Dreaming Wide Awake is the second album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by singer and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 Lizz Wright
Lizz Wright
Lizz Wright is an American jazz/R&B singer and composer.Wright was born in the small town of Hahira in the US state of Georgia; one of three children and the daughter of a minister and the musical director of their Church. She started singing gospel music and playing piano in church as a child,...

, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music
2005 in music
-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...

). It reached number one on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
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Top Contemporary Jazz chart.

Track listing

  1. "A Taste of Honey" (Marlow–Scott) – 3:51
  2. "Stop" (Henry) – 3:32
  3. "Hit the Ground" (Harris–Reagon–Wright) – 3:31
  4. "When I Close My Eyes" (Bowne–Honda–Thompson) – 3:16
  5. "I'm Confessin'" (Daugherty–Neiburg
    Al J. Neiburg
    Allen J. Neiburg was an American lyricist. He was born on 22 November 1902 in St. Albans, Vermont and received his education at Boston University. He is known for writing lyrics for such songs as "I'm Confessin' " , "It's the Talk of the Town" and "Under a Blanket of Blue"...

    –Reynolds) – 2:58
  6. "Old Man" (Young) – 3:40
  7. "Wake Up, Little Sparrow" (Jenkins) – 3:00
  8. "Chasing Strange" (Thompson) – 3:48
  9. "Get Together" (Powers) – 4:42
  10. "Trouble" (Henderson–Wright) – 5:12
  11. "Dreaming Wide Awake" (Wright) – 3:44
  12. "Without You" (Harris) – 4:05
    "Bonus track"
  13. "Narrow Daylight" (Diana Krall–Elvis Costello) – 4:04
(Recorded at Allaire Studios, Shokan, New York
Shokan, New York
Shokan is a hamlet located in the Town of Olive in Ulster County, within the Catskill Park. The population was 1,252 at the 2000 census.-History:...

, 27 October–5 December 2004, by S. Husky Höskulds
S. Husky Höskulds
S. Husky Höskulds is a Grammy Award–winning audio engineer based in Los Angeles, California.He moved to Los Angeles in 1991, to study audio engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles...

.)

Personnel

  • Lizz Wright
    Lizz Wright
    Lizz Wright is an American jazz/R&B singer and composer.Wright was born in the small town of Hahira in the US state of Georgia; one of three children and the daughter of a minister and the musical director of their Church. She started singing gospel music and playing piano in church as a child,...

     — vocals
  • Chris Bruce — guitar
    Guitar
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  • Bill Frisell
    Bill Frisell
    William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...

     — guitar
  • Greg Leisz
    Greg Leisz
    Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass.- Biography :Leisz was influenced early on by the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, especially pedal steel player "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow...

     — guitar
  • Glenn Patscha — keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
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    , backing vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

  • Patrick Warren — keyboards
  • Marc Anthony Thompson — harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

    , backing vocals
  • David Piltch — bass
    Double bass
    The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

  • Earl Harvin
    Earl Harvin
    Earl Harvin is a drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist from the New York area who has lived in Dallas, Texas and Los Angeles and is now residing in Berlin, Germany....

     — drums
    Drum kit
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  • Jeff Haynes — percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

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