But Beautiful (Boz Scaggs album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

AllMusic found the album "an entirely pleasant listen" and praised the jazz quartet backing Scaggs, but rated the album as poor, citing Scaggs' "sometimes too casual" phrasing and criticizing his approach as predictable rather than fresh;^[2] on the other hand, it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart, and was a "critical and commercial triumph".^[3]

1. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) – 4:30
2. "Never Let Me Go" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 5:06
3. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:07
4. "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 5:14
5. "But Beautiful" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 5:36
6. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:29
7. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 4:13
8. "I Should Care" (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn) – 5:25
9. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 5:46
10. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) – 5:30

Bonus Track Japanese Release:

1. "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:57

• Boz Scaggs – vocals
• Paul Nagel – grand piano, arrangements
• John Shifflett – bass
• Jason Lewis – drums
• Eric Crystal – saxophone

Production

• Boz Scaggs – producer, liner notes
• Jeff Cressman – engineer
• Steve MacMillan – engineer
• Michael Rodriguez – engineer
• Chris Taberez – engineer, technical coordinator
• Joel Moss – mixing
• Bernie Grundman – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California).
• Phillip Andelman – photography
• David Bullen – design