With the threesome of Boz Scaggs, Cassandra Wilson and Eliane Elias, Jazz at the Bowl tried out the eclectic programming philosophy of its June cousin, the Playboy Jazz Festival. It isn't worth the ...

Boz Scaggs made a household name for himself with the ultra-slick Silk Degrees (Columbia, 1975), but he had already established a solo career for himself in the wake of departing The Steve Miller Band ...

Over the phone, Boz Scaggs sounds very much like the native Texan he is. Which is a surprise – not only because Scaggs has lived in and around San Francisco for the last 35 of his 59 years, but also ...

These days, it’s good to be the Wizard of Boz. In recent times, Boz Scaggs has been recording and touring as he pleases, including a highly successful road jaunt with Donald Fagen of Steely Dan and ex ...

Born William Royce Scaggs, the musician was given the nickname Bosley, which was eventually shortened to Boz, while attending a private school in Dallas during the 1950s. At the same school, Scaggs ...

If being smooth were a sport, Boz Scaggs would have retired with a shelf full of trophies. The legendary singer-songwriter and guitarist has been curating the mood way longer than algorithms have been ...

Fifty years ago, a handful of milestone albums set the tone for rock of the following decade. Crosby, Stills & Nash initiated a fresh approach to harmonies and looser group names; the eponymous debut ...

BOZ Scaggs is one of the most reliably entertaining live performers in the business. Not surprisingly, it was standard Boz on Thursday night at Livermore’s Wente Vineyards. But it wasn’t “standards” ...

Rock and pop singers have wildly different reasons for tackling the great American songbook: irony (Bryan Ferry); homage (Joni Mitchell); over-confidence (Robbie Williams); affection (Linda Ronstadt); ...