Speak Low (Boz Scaggs album)

Speak Low is an album of pop standards by Boz Scaggs, released in 2008. It peaked at No. 128 on the Billboard 200.

Reception Charity Stafford of AllMusic says the album "should come as no surprise to longtime fans." She then describes it as "a personal, canny follow-up to 2003's collection of standards, But Beautiful." Will Layman of PopMatters says, "Boz keens, with the occasional Kermit-the-Frogian passage still audible." Christopher Loumon of JazzTimes says Speak Low is "shot through with a haunted otherworldliness that is perfectly suited to Scaggs’ still-mesmerizing, if now enticingly coarser, nasality."

Reviewing for JazzTimes, Christopher Louden wrote, "Five years ago, it came as no surprise that But Beautiful, Boz Scaggs’ first foray into jazz standards, was an unqualified success. And it comes as no surprise that his long overdue follow-up is even better".

Track listing "Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper, Paul Francis Webster) – 5:29 "She Was Too Good to Me" (Chet Baker) – 3:55 "I Wish I Knew" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 5:26 "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 3:46 "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:06 "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:05 "Save Your Love For Me" (Buddy Johnson) – 5:17 "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman) – 5:37 "Skylark" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) – 4:04 "Senza Fine" (Gino Paoli) – 3:31 "Dindi" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Aloísio de Oliveira) – 3:54 "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:40

Personnel Boz Scaggs – vocals, guitar Gil Goldstein – grand piano, electric piano, accordion, arrangement Scott Colley – bass Alex Acuña – drums, percussion Mike Mainieri – vibraphone, marimba Shane Shanahan – tabla Bob Sheppard – tenor and soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, bass flute, C flute Eric Crystal – tenor saxophone Aaron Heick – bass flute Lou Marini – bass flute Lawrence Feldman – alto flute Joyce Hammann – violin Laura Seaton – violin Lois Martin – viola Richard Locker – cello Carol Robbins – harp

Production Boz Scaggs – producer Gil Goldstein – producer Craig Fruin – executive producer Chris Tabarez – mixing, engineer Dann Thompson – engineer Mike Pela – engineer Steve Rodby – engineer Geoff Countryman – engineer Leonard Hospidor – engineer Jay Newland – engineer Michael Rodriguez – mixing, engineer Ryan Doordan – engineer Justin Gerrish – engineer Danny Kopelson – mixing James Minchin III – photography Rebecca Meek – design Fanny Gotschall – art direction

Chart positions YearChartPosition2008Billboard 2001282008Billboard Top Jazz Albums2

References

External links Speak Low Lyrics