A selection of recordings from commercial releases, live concerts and session work can be sampled below. Click the play buttons to hear short clips. Also, scroll down to see some television appearances, including rare footage of Carla Bley.

DISCOGRAPHY

‘High Five’
(Blue Stew CD 001, 2010)
Produced by Stuart Wilson (Catalyst Production)

Stewart Forbes featured with pianists:
Alan Benzie (track 2 & 6), Richard Michael (tr. 4 & 5), David Newton (tr. 1, 8 & 10),
Mira Opalinska (tr. 3 & 7), David Patrick (tr. 9).

1. I'll Remember April (Raye, Paul, Johnstone)

2. 'Round Midnight (Williams, Monk)

3. The First One (Opalinska)

4. I Got it Bad (Ellington)

5. Isfahan (Ellington/Strayhorn)

6. My Romance (Rogers & Hart)

7. Niebieska (Forbes)

8. My Foolish Heart (Victor Young)

9. Hallucinations (Powell)

10. Loverman (Davies, Ramirez, Sherman)

‘BBC Big Band – Cool’
(EMI, 1998)

BBC Big Band, Conducted by Barry Forgie and Pete Moore.

Stewart appears on the last 2 tracks on this BBC CD.

On ‘Hotel Le Hot’ the BBC Big Band appears with Norma Winston. Composer & trumpet / flugelhorn player Kenny Wheeler was in the studio but unfortunately couldn’t play on the session – it was 3rd January – he had accidentaly burned his lips sipping some Zambucca at New Year.

1. Watermelon Man (Hancock)
2. Ding Dong Ding (Brookmeyer)
3. Quaker State Samba (Niehaus)
4. Who Asked? (Wilkins)
5. Camptown Races (Foster)
6. Mr. Snodgrass (Howarth)
7. Street of Dreams (McConnell)
8. Blues 1 Band 0 (Tomaro)

9. Hotel le Hot (Wheeler)

LIVE RECORDINGS

‘Alto Ego’
(Blue Stew CD 002, after final mixing & mastering will be new release tbc, 2010)
recorded at the Recital Room, Glasgow, 23rd Mar 2010
Stewart Forbes (sax.), David Newton (pno.), Brian Shiels (db.), Alyn Cosker (dr.)
Recorded and produced by Iain Massey (La Massey productions)

1. Bye-ya (Monk)

2. Lush Life (Strayhorn)

3. Bloomdido (Parker)

4. Loverman (Ramirez)

VIDEO

The Stewart Forbes Big Band performed Carla Bley’s “Birds of Paradise” in Glasgow as part of the Glasgow Jazz Festival, 1992. Features Alex Balanescu, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow & Adam Nussbaum. This (edited down) BBC film documents the rehearsal.