The Barry Altschul Quartet

For Stu is a quartet record by drummer Barry Altschul, recorded in New York in February 1979 and released by Soul Note in 1981 as SN 1015. The title dedicates it to the drummer Stu Martin. Reviewing Altschul's later work in Point of Departure, Brian Morton singled out this album and Irina as the best of the string of records the drummer made for Soul Note at the end of the 1970s. The band has Ray Anderson on trombone, Anthony Davis on piano and Rick Rozie on bass.

The music was recorded at Sound Ideas Studios on 18 February 1979, with Chuck Ange engineering and Phil Faraci assisting, and remixed at Celestial Sound Studios on 14 and 15 February 1981. Altschul produced the session himself, Giovanni Bonandrini was executive producer and Lee Jeske wrote the liner notes. Four long pieces fill about forty minutes. The title track, Altschul's composition in an arrangement by Davis, opens at eleven minutes, followed by Davis's own Sleepwalker. Drum Role, the leader's second piece, runs to seven minutes. The record closes with a reading of more than thirteen minutes of Mingus's Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues. In the same review Morton, drawing on Bill Shoemaker, set the warmer cymbal splash of the Soul Note albums against the damped drum sound of Altschul's earlier 1970s records.

Soul Note CD 121015-2. Discogs lists it as a reissue of the 1981 LP and, from its SID code, dates this CD to no earlier than 1994.