Production was handled by 9th Wonder, Anu~Sun, Black Milk, DJ Spinna, Erykah Badu, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Hiatus Kaiyote, Jewels, Paris Strother, Rashad Smith, Robert Glasper, and Steve Berkowitz, who also served as executive producer with Adam Block, Erin Davis, Nicole Hegeman and Vince Wilburn.

It features guest appearances from Bilal, Erykah Badu, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Hiatus Kaiyote, Illa J, Laura Mvula, Ledisi, Phonte, Stevie Wonder and We Are King, as well as contributions from bassists Derrick Hodge, Braylon Lacy and Burniss Travis, guitarists Danny Leznoff, Kyle Bolden and John Scofield, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, and keyboardist Joe Zawinul among others.

[6] Andy Gill of The Independent wrote: "Erykah Badu lends a childlike charm to the sunburnt fizz of Glasper's bossa nova version of "Maiysha (So Long)", with Miles's trumpet shining through towards the end".

[4] Seth Colter Walls of Pitchfork wrote: "a trio of cuts toward the middle of Everything's Beautiful suffers from feeling less robustly reimagined than the rest of the set--placing a slight drag on momentum".

[1] Siddhartha Mitter of The Boston Globe wrote: "the middle of the album is a problem, especially the Hiatus Kaiyote number, "Little Church", a strange, bloodless clunker that drags down the Mvula ("Silence Is the Way") and KING ("Song for Selim") features that follow.