Beautiful!

Beautiful!
Studio album by Charles McPherson
Released 1975
Recorded August 12, 1975
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Xanadu
115
Producer Don Schlitten
Charles McPherson chronology
Today's Man
(1973)
Beautiful!
(1975)
Live in Tokyo
(1976)

Beautiful! is an album by saxophonist Charles McPherson which was recorded in 1975 and released on the Xanadu label.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]

The Allmusic review reccommened the album awarding it album 4 stars and stating "Xanadu was a perfect label for altoist Charles McPherson since he was always a bop-based improviser who was perfectly at home jamming straightahead standards".[3]

Track listing

  1. "They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin) - 4:59
  2. "But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:18
  3. "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 5:43
  4. "Lover" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:49
  5. "This Can't Be Love" (Hart, Rodgers) - 5:28
  6. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) - 7:44
  7. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 5:42
  8. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn, Bronisław Kaper) - 8:59 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

  1. Charles McPherson discography accessed April 24, 2014
  2. Xanadu Records discography accessed April 24, 2014
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed April 24, 2014
  4. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 137. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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