Speak Low (Boz Scaggs album)

Speak Low
Studio album by
Boz Scaggs
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2008
Studio
GenreJazz
Length52:28
Label
Producer
Boz Scaggs chronology
But Beautiful
(2003) 		Speak Low
(2008) 		Memphis
(2013)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
PopMatters6/10[2]

Speak Low is an album of pop standards by Boz Scaggs, released in 2008. It peaked at No. 128 on the Billboard 200.[3]

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."[1] Will Layman of PopMatters says, "Boz keens, with the occasional Kermit-the-Frogian passage still audible."[2] 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."[4]

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

Year Chart Position
2008 Billboard 200 128
2008 Billboard Top Jazz Albums 2

References

  1. ^ a b Stafford, Charity. Speak Low at AllMusic. Retrieved February 14, 2026.
  2. ^ a b Will Layman. "Boz Scaggs: Speak Low". PopMatters. Retrieved February 14, 2026.
  3. ^ "Boz Scaggs". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  4. ^ Christopher Loudon. "Boz Scaggs: Speak Low". JazzTimes. Retrieved February 14, 2026.
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