''Fellowship'' is the fourth studio album by an American singer

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, which was released on 28 September 2010 on Verve Forecast. Guest performances on the album include

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and

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. The album debuted at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Jazz Album chart, and has sold 17,000 copies in the United States as of August 2015.

Track listing

# "Fellowship" (

, arranged by

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) – 3:32 # "(I've Got to Use My) Imagination" (

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) – 4:37 # "I Remember, I Believe" (

) – 5:30 # "God Specializes" (Gloria Griffin, arr. by Toshi Reagon and Kenny Banks) – 4:29 # Gospel Medley (Traditional, arr. by Kenny Banks, Johnson Reagon, Wright) – 8:30 ##"I've Got a Feeling" ##"Power Lord" ##" Glory, Glory" ##"

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" ##"Hold On Just a Little While Longer" # "Sweeping Through the City" (Wright, based on

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5 1-12) – 1:56 # "All the Seeds" (Wright,

) – 1:18 # "Presence of the Lord" (

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) – 4:51 # "In from the Storm" (

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) – 3:06 # "Feed the Light" (

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) – 2:58 # "Oya" (Oya Kupola, Kidjo) – 1:31 # "

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" (

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) – 5:04 *Recorded at

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and Stratosphere Sound, New York, NY *Mixed at Estudi O'Rand and Downtown Music Studios, New York, NY

Personnel

* Lizz Wright - vocals * Glen Patscha - keyboards, Fender Rhodes (tracks 1, 3, 4, 10), Hammond B3 (2-4), Wurlitzer electric piano (2, 8), piano (3), pump organ (8) * Kenny Banks - piano (4, 5), backing vocals (6) * David Cook - piano (8) *

- violin and backing vocals (1, 3) *

Oren Bloedow Oren Bloedow (born July 3, 1965) is an American singer, guitarist and bassist. He founded the band Elysian Fields in 1995 with Jennifer Charles. His father, Jerry Bloedow, was a playwright, poet, and film editor whose theater, the Hardware Poe ...

- guitar (1, 3, 10) *

Marvin Sewell Marvin Sewell is a blues/jazz guitarist, who has been called maybe "the greatest guitarist you've never heard of". He was born and grew up in Chicago, where he attended the Chicago Musical College at Roosevelt University. Since 1990, he has been b ...

- guitar (2, 8, 9, 12), slide guitar (7, 9), e-bow (7) * Robin Macatangay - guitar (2) *

(as Me'Shell N'Degeocello) - bass (1, 10), vocals (1) * Nicholas D'Amato - bass (2, 8) *

Todd Sickafoose Todd Sickafoose is an American jazz and rock musician, composer, and producer/engineer from San Francisco, California. He is best known for playing acoustic bass and keyboards with Ani DiFranco but has also led his own group, Todd Sickafoose's Ti ...

- acoustic bass (3) * Mimi Jones - acoustic bass (4) * Rocky Bryant - drums (1, 3, 4, 10) * Alfredo 'Catfish' Alias - drums (2) * Jano Rix - drums (8) * Fred Walcott - percussion (2), shaker (8) * Nacho Arimany - cajón and tambourine (9) *

- vocals (7, 11) *

- backing vocals (1, 3, 6) * Nacho Newsam-Marchak - backing vocals (1, 4, 6) *

- backing vocals (3, 5) ;Production *

Kevin Killen Kevin Killen (born October 22, 1959) is a music producer, engineer, and mixer. His work has been recognized by multiple awards and nominations, and he has worked with a range of recording artists including Shakira, Peter Gabriel, U2, David Bowie ...

- Recording and mix * Brian Bacchus - Production (2, 4-9, 11, 12) * Toshi Reagon - Production (1, 3-5, 10)

Charts

References

Lizz Wright albums 2010 albums {{2000s-jazz-album-stub