Ivory Forest is a recording by a quartet led by pianist Hal Galper.

It features a 28-year-old John Scofield, whose 1979 Enja album Rough House featured Galper and drummer Adam Nussbaum in a similar quartet context.

The album opens with two solo instrumental performances of pieces from the jazz standard repertoire.

First, Scofield plays a solo guitar arrangement of Thelonious Monk's "Monk's Mood", and then Galper plays a solo arrangement of the Latin American popular song Yellow Days.

The rest of the album features quartet performances of compositions written by Galper.