{{About|the Charles McPherson album||Beautiful (disambiguation){{!}}Beautiful}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Beautiful! | type = Studio | artist = Charles McPherson | cover = Beautiful! (audio cover).jpg | alt = | released = 1975 | recorded = August 12, 1975<br>New York City | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Xanadu<br>15 | producer = Don Schlitten | chronology = Charles McPherson | prev_title = Today's Man | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = Live in Tokyo | next_year = 1976 }}
'''''Beautiful!''''' is an album by Charles McPherson which was recorded in 1975 and released on the Xanadu label.<ref>[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/McPhersonCharles-ldr.php Charles McPherson discography] accessed April 24, 2014</ref><ref>[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Xanadu.htm Xanadu Records discography] accessed April 24, 2014</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 137 }}</ref> }} The Allmusic review recommended the album awarding it 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".<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S., [http://www.allmusic.com/album/beautiful-mw0000878113 Allmusic Review] accessed April 24, 2014</ref>
== Track listing == # "They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin) - 4:59 # "But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:18 # "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 5:43 # "Lover" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:49 # "This Can't Be Love" (Hart, Rodgers) - 5:28 # "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) - 7:44 # "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 5:42 # "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn, Bronisław Kaper) - 8:59 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>
== Personnel == *Charles McPherson - alto saxophone *Duke Jordan - piano *Sam Jones - bass *Leroy Williams - drums
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Category:Charles McPherson (musician) albums Category:1975 albums Category:Xanadu Records albums Category:Albums produced by Don Schlitten