LIZZ WRIGHT with Kenny Banks Sr.

City Winery NYC presents LIZZ WRIGHT with Kenny Banks Sr. for the release of ‘Nearness’ album on Sunday, October 4th, at 7:30pm! The singer Lizz Wright — who owns one of the most spellbinding voices of her generation, regardless of genre — remembers the first time she heard her dear pianist Kenny Banks Sr. perform. It was at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, where Banks was onstage with the vocalist Audrey Shakir, a regional legend. Wright was a freshman at Georgia State University; the daughter of a minister, she was raised on the music of the Black American church. Banks was already a respected player on the Atlanta scene who was working toward hi...