Recent Recordings

Yara Asmar - everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much

Press

NPR Music - "Lars Gotrich's Top 10 Albums of 2025"

released October 10, 2025

Music composed and recorded by Yara Asmar

"Wooden Giants and Mechanical Birds" composed

and performed with John Murchison and Gideon Forbes

Alex Wakim - Claire

released August 29, 2025

Composed by Alex Wakim

Featuring Layth Sidiq (tr. 9, 10), Charles Palmer (tr. 9), and Quinn Lake (tr. 10)

Produced and Published by Alex Wakim

Recorded at The Bunker Studio - New York City, NY - March 28th, 2025

Recording Engineering by Todd Carder

Mastered by Oscar Zambrano

Alex Wakim – Piano (tr 1–13)

John Murchison – Bass (tr 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12)

Alber Baseel – Drums (tr 1, 3-5, 7, 9, 12)

Layth Sidiq – Violin (tr 1, 4, 9, 10)

Sarah Mueller – Violin (tr 1, 3-5, 7, 9, 12)

Noemie Chemali – Viola (tr 1, 3-5, 7, 9, 12)

Quinn Lake – Cello (tr 1, 3-13)

Jamie Baum – Flute (tr 1, 3-5, 7, 9, 12

Lama El Homaissi – Voice (tr 1, 4, 5, 7)

Fadi Broumana – Voice (tr 1)

Brian Prunka – Oud (tr 1, 3-5, 7, 9, 12)

Gideon Forbes – Ney (tr 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12), Bass Clarinet (tr 5)

Czech National Symphony Orchestra (tr 2)

Budapest Scoring Orchestra – (tr 1, 10, 12)

Jeffrey Charles Palmer – Voice (tr 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12)

Emily Solo – Backing Vocals (tr 9, 12) 

Shadows -  Alec Goldfarb

released June 27, 2025

Alec Goldfarb- Compositions, Guitars

Agnesia Nandasari Nuringtyas- Voice

Daniel Hass- Cello

DoYeon Kim- Voice, Gayageum

Gideon Forbes- Soprano Saxophone, Nay

Mat Muntz - Contrabass

Rani- Voice

Steven Crammer- Drumset, Tabla

T. Nama- Keyboards and E. Vibraphone (production assistance from Phillip Golub)

Yustiawan Paradigma Umar- Gender Sandikala

Roni Driyastoto- Rebab

A Flash of Cobalt Blue - Ines Velasco

Press

NPR Music - "Felix Contreras' Top 10 Albums of 2025"

released June 6, 2025

All compositions by Ines Velasco

M. Alex Ramírez - alto, flute

Gideon Forbes - alto, flute

John Lowery - tenor, clarinet

Nathan See - tenor, clarinet

Kenny Pexton - baritone, bass clarinet

Sam Hoyt - trumpet, flugelhorn

Bobby Spellman - trumpet, flugelhorn

Dave Smith - trumpet, flugelhorn

Joey Kendrick - trumpet, flugelhorn

Nick Grinder - trombone

Sam Blakeslee - trombone

Greg DeAngelis - trombone

Julie Dombroski-Jones - bass trombone

Andrew Boudreau - piano

Jacob Aviner - guitar, fx

Eduardo Belo - bass

Jongkuk Kim - drums

Catey Esler - vocals on This Is The Way Down

Nortonk

Press

"Nortonk just has a way of making anything and everything fit together"

- New York City Jazz Record

"[Nortonk's] self-titled debut is very much a maximal experience, thanks to a surplus of energy, passion and adventurism."

- Jazziz Magazine

"Nortonk have a freshness and sense of discovery that one sometimes gets with a younger group, putting them on a path to match the legacies of the artists who inspired them."

- Matt Collar, AllMusic

"The collective voice of Nortonk is where it's at...both their compositional and improvisational voices have developed group swagger. The performances have an organic quality, with the group dynamic sounding authentic and earned--the way that each voice pushes and pulls the others, and the way that each band member's writing is clearly built for the dynamics of this band in particular."

- Will Layman, popmatters.com

"Forbes's scene-setting 'Chutes and Ladders' reveals elasticity to be one of the group's defining qualities in the way the members support the soloist. In a performance that achieves a cozy balance between polished and raw, the freedom the absence a choral instrument affords is felt throughout."

- Ron Schepper, textura.org

"[Nortonk]...is characterised by its angular pungent harmonic unisons...and while comparisons with the Coleman-Cherry Piano-less ensembles are inescapable, Nortonk go their way."

- Jazzwise Magazine

"Rising out of Thomas Killackey's and Gideon Forbes's contemplative trumpet and saxophone harmonies, 'Spiders' lingers beautifully...'Herzog' blossoms into a richly melodic rumination, the soft-grained horns taking on a gritty intensity in the chorus."

- The Wire

released May 21, 2021

Thomas Killackey - trumpet

Gideon Forbes - alto saxophone

Stephen Pale - acoustic bass

Steven Crammer - drums