Charles McPherson and his Quartet recorded "Is That It? No, But ..." jazz CD in Tokyo, Japan on August 6, 2000. Downbeat magazine reviewed the CD in its December 2001 issue. Here are a few highlights from the review to wet your appetite!

"... it captures the light and fire of McPherson's alto saxophone—its penetrating, singing, fixating cry—as no other recording ever has. In fact, very few recordings of anyone's saxophone make the horn catapult out of the speakers like this one."

The Charles McPherson Quartet

"Every song no matter the tempo, provokes an outbreak of searing lines that are unmistakably McPherson..."

"More than any living practitioner of his instrument, McPherson has internalized and carried forth the language of Charlie Parker. When he weaves a tapestry derived from "But Beautiful" but makes it personal and new, it is the classical creative process of bop."