Matt and Nick reviewing mixes at Capitol ‘B’
After many months of recording, I’m thrilled to say we’re in the final stages of completing these six new tracks! 🤩 This EP brings together 43 incredible musicians and the mixing talents of 5x Grammy winner Nicholai Baxter (A Star Is Born, La La Land) ✨ I can’t wait to share this new music with you!
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#vintagepop #capitolrecords #recordingstudio
We did it! 👏🏻 A HUGE thank you to everyone who made the trek out to support our return to @segerstromarts Summer Jazz Series on Friday! It was a truly magical night — drawing crowds of 700+ people — and with a band swinging so hard they literally ‘made the earth move’! 🤭
I’m indebted to these sensational musicians (all 13 of them) and to Bubba Jackson @kjazz881 for making it all possible 🙌🏻 (A big thank you also to Steve McHale @artsandculturesocal and @don_saban for capturing so much of the night!) More photos and video to come!
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📸: @artsandculturesocal ✨: @miiitch.x
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Back together again at Capitol B!
Class Photo 📸 So grateful to have been a part of last week’s sessions at @capitolstudios led by the extraordinary Grammy-winning talents, Matt Rollings, Buddy Cannon and Ed Cherney 🙏🏻
Such a privilege to be in the room again with such supremely talented musicians, creating such swinging, soulful music. Thanks for letting me join in the fun! 🎶
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#vintagepop #blessed #sinatra #willienelson #sonymusic
At Capitol’s Studio ‘B’ with Nicholai Baxter and associate engineer Phil Levine
Still buzzing from yesterday’s mega-session at @capitolstudios 🤩 Recording with such an incredible group of musicians at one of the finest studios in the world is such a privilege.
A huge thank you to my incomparable co-producer @nicholaibaxter and his masterful right-hand man, Phil Levine for absolutely crushing it ✊🏻 I cant wait to share this new music with you!
#vintagepop #newmusic #capitolstudios
Congratulations to the Great @willienelsonofficial and co-producers Buddy Cannon and Matt Rollings on winning this year’s GRAMMY Award for ‘Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album’!
It was such a privilege to play a small role in the making of this beautiful tribute to Frank Sinatra. Way to go, guys — so richly deserved! 👏🏻👏🏻
With Bubba Jackson & Saul Levine
It was a real pre-Thanksgiving treat seeing my second family at America’s Jazz & Blues Station, @kjazz881 today! ✨
A big thank you to the great Saul Levine and my main man, Bubba Jackson for having me on-air and for being such tireless champions of this music 🙏🏻 I want to wish you all a very safe, joyous Thanksgiving week ahead with your own friends and families!
It was an honor to play a small role in the creation of ‘My Way’, Willie Nelson’s gorgeous new record celebrating the music of Frank Sinatra (I was privileged to provide all the initial guide vocals for Willie)
To spend a week in the same room as these remarkable musicians and his Grammy award-winning team of Buddy Cannon, Matt Rollings and Ed Cherney was nothing short of a thrill! 🙏🏻
Be sure to check it out on Amazon, iTunes/Apple Music and Spotify!
Photos courtesy of Steve McHale, Arts & Culture SoCal
We did it! A huge thank you to the record-breaking 750+ people who came out to support our show at Segerstrom Center for the Arts on June 29th. I was living my best life up on that stage with this incredible band and was so grateful to meet so many of you afterwards!
My sincere thanks goes out to KJAZZ's own, Bubba Jackson for inviting us to the party and Danny Escobar and his team at Segerstrom for ensuring everything went off without a hitch. We can't wait to return!
Video clips from the show coming soon!
SO excited to announce that the band and I will be headlining a very special show at Segerstrom Center for the Arts on Friday, June 29 in Costa Mesa!⛱🎷It’s Segerstrom’s inaugural FREE Summer Jazz Series on the new Argyros Plaza. Hosted by KJAZZ 88.1 FM's Bubba Jackson, we’ll be playing all your faves from ‘Solitary Man’ and ‘Coulda Woulda Shoulda’!
The Plaza opens at 6pm with Ron Kobayashi’s Trio and Andrea Miller kicking things off at 7pm, followed by yours truly at 8pm. Bring your folding chairs and blankets for a great night of music under the stars!✨Food and drinks will also be available to purchase onsite from Center 360!
A big congrats to my uber-talented pal and co-conspirator on ‘Solitary Man’, the great Nicholai Baxter who received his two GRAMMYs today for his work on 'La La Land' ! 👏🏻✨
Such a pleasure watching my good buddy, the Grammy award-winning Steve Tyrell crush it last night at Catalina’s in Hollywood.🎙 He showed us how it’s done and has never sounded better! Steve’s been a real champion of mine and his generous promoting only continued last night from the stage (which I’m indebted for!) Be sure to check out Steve’s terrific new album, ‘A Song For You’ 💿 out on @warnermusic and tune-in to his weekday show on KJAZZ 88.1 FM. Congrats, my friend!
Just got word that the Dash Radio takeover for ‘Solitary Man’ is happening this weekend! You can hear the hour-long interview (with cuts from the album) on both their ‘Ratpack’ and ‘Swing!’ channels Friday, Saturday and Sunday (times listed below) Tune-in for FREE via dashradio.com or thru their mobile app. A big thank you to @markmoseley and the Dash crew for their amazing support!
'Solitary Man’ takes flight this season on Air Canada flights worldwide! ✈️ You can stream the full album via their enRoute In-flight Entertainment under ‘Jazz/Blues’. Pick up your own copy today via Amazon, iTunes/Apple Music, Google Play and Spotify!
'Angel Eyes' has always been a favorite of mine. Written in 1946, it would become a hit for Frank and Ella in the '50s. Now 70 years later, we're taking it back to its 'noir' roots with this new arrangement by Callum Au… Watch the full video via the link below! From my new LP, 'Solitary Man' — co-produced by GRAMMY award-winner Nicholai Baxter (@lalaland) available on Amazon, iTunes, Google & Spotify.
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you’re all staying warm this first day of 2018! 😬Thank you for coming along this amazing ride with me the past year — I feel very lucky to have you all in my life! Looking forward to sharing more music (and meeting more of you in person!) in 2018. Wishing you all the best for the coming year! 🎉🥂#thebestisyettocome #lookingforward#happynewyear
Happy Boxing Day! I recently had the pleasure of catching up with @nickfinzer on his ‘overHERE’ podcast from @outside.in.music. We talked about the new record, growing up in Canada and what might be next... You can listen to the full interview via the link below! My thanks to Nick and Outside In Music for the feature!
Very excited to learn that 'Solitary Man' is the "Ringer of the Week" on JazzWeekly.com! Here's an excerpt: "I said it before on his 2015 debut album 'Coulda Woulda Shoulda', and I’m saying it again after his new release 'Solitary Man'…this Matt Forbes is the vocalist that you want to discover. Forget the posers and TV personalities. Forbes mixes standards, pop tunes and obscurities and delivers them like Mariano Rivera on this album...this guy makes the standards stand out!"
You can read the full review below -- a big thank you to George W. Harris for the support!
This track may have been the last one we recorded for the album...but it ended up saying it all. ‘Solitary Man’ — which Neil Diamond originally wrote for Bobby Darin in 1966 — gets unplugged and reimagined for 2017. The title track from my new LP, 'Solitary Man', co-produced by GRAMMY award winner Nicholai Baxter ('La La Land', Rufus Wainwright) Available NOW on Amazon (smarturl.it/meecn6), iTunes/Apple Music (smarturl.it/inizmr), Google Play (smarturl.it/fg1heb) Spotify (smarturl.it/5dyr4u) and in select stores -- Song & Script and L'Atelier Grigorian in Toronto and Amoeba Music in Hollywood.
When love doesn't work out, the only thing you can do is bounce...! Here's an inside look at me and the band tracking, 'The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else' at EastWest Studios and Igloo Music in Los Angeles. Callum Au really outdid himself on this new arrangement!
From my new LP, 'Solitary Man', co-produced by GRAMMY award winner Nicholai Baxter ('La La Land', Rufus Wainwright) Available NOW on Amazon (smarturl.it/meecn6), iTunes/Apple Music (smarturl.it/inizmr), Google Play (smarturl.it/fg1heb) Spotify (smarturl.it/5dyr4u) and in select stores -- Song & Script and L'Atelier Grigorian in Toronto and Amoeba Music in Hollywood.
A big thank you to the great Clare Teal who debuted my Bobby Darin-penned track, 'Rainin'' last night on @bbcradio2 ! (Be sure to tune into Clare's show every Sunday night for the best in jazz and swing!) From my new LP, 'Solitary Man', available NOW via Amazon (smarturl.it/meecn6), iTunes/Apple Music (smarturl.it/inizmr), Google Play (smarturl.it/fg1heb) Spotify (smarturl.it/5dyr4u) and in select stores -- Song & Script and L'Atelier Grigorian in Toronto and Amoeba Music in Hollywood.