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."

Track listing

1. "Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper, Paul Francis Webster) – 5:29
2. "She Was Too Good to Me" (Chet Baker) – 3:55
3. "I Wish I Knew" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 5:26
4. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 3:46
5. "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:06
6. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:05
7. "Save Your Love For Me" (Buddy Johnson) – 5:17
8. "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman) – 5:37
9. "Skylark" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) – 4:04
10. "Senza Fine" (Gino Paoli) – 3:31
11. "Dindi" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Aloísio de Oliveira) – 3:54
12. "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

References

External links

• Speak Low Lyrics