Dreaming Wide Awake

Dreaming Wide Awake is the second album by singer and composer Lizz Wright, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music). It reached number one on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz chart. The song 'Hit the Ground' featured in an Episode of House MD, season 3 episode 14 – "Insensitive".

For the song by Poets of the Fall, see Dreaming Wide Awake (song).

Dreaming Wide Awake
Studio album by Lizz Wright
Released	14 June 2005
Recorded	2004
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	49:33
Label	Verve
Producer	Craig Street
Lizz Wright chronology
Salt (2003) Dreaming Wide Awake (2005) The Orchard (2008)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	(not rated)[1]
Allmusic	[2]
Jazzitude	(not rated) link

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–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, 27 October–5 December 2004, by S. Husky Höskulds.)

Personnel

• Lizz Wright – vocals
• Chris Bruce – guitar
• Bill Frisell – guitar
• Greg Leisz – guitar
• Glenn Patscha – keyboards, backing vocals
• Patrick Warren – keyboards
• Marc Anthony Thompson – harmonica, backing vocals
• David Piltch – bass
• Earl Harvin – drums
• Jeff Haynes – percussion
• S. Husky Höskulds – recording and mix engineer

References

1. Slawecki, Chris M. (12 August 2005). "Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake". All About Jazz. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
2. Widran, Jonathan. "Dreaming Wide Awake – Lizz Wright". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 March 2012.