2023 Women’s Jazz Festival: Lizz Wright
Join us for the closing night of the Women’s Jazz Festival with acclaimed vocalist and songwriter, Lizz Wright, as we celebrate women of the African diaspora and their contributions to the sounds of jazz.
Lizz Wright returns to the Schomburg stage with an inimitable voice that The New York Times touts as, “a smooth, dark alto possessed of qualities you might associate with barrel-aged bourbon or butter-soft leather.” Wright sings with a soaring reflection of the cultural fabric of America. She lies beneath the script of human history transcending social divides with an offer of love and deep sense of humanity. Her music accepts the beauty of reality and a collective experience of belonging
