Jazz fusion: Wrapped in a Cloud

Glass Menagerie: Mike Stern (electric guitar), Michal Urbaniak (electric violin), Gil Goldstein (piano), Tim Landers (electric bass) and Billy Cobham (drums, percussion). From the album Stratus (1981) by Billy Cobham’s Glass Menagerie.

In 1991 Gil Goldstein helped recover arrangements from Gil Evans for Miles & Quincy: Live at Montreaux and played keyboards; he also issued City of Dreams. In 1992 he participated in the crossover jazz albums Far East, Vol. 1 by Elements and the acclaimed Secret Story by guitarist Pat Metheny. He also published Zebra Coast, in which he plays piano, synthesizer and accordion. In 1993 he appeared in Echoes of a Note: A Tribute to Louis “Pops” Armstrong by Japan-born American trumpeter Tiger Okoshi and presented Infinite Love. In addition he arranged the soundtrack for the television miniseries Wild Palms by Japanese singer, songwriter, actor and record producer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

In 1994 he returned with Elements in Live in the Far East, Vol. 2, with Tiger Okishi in Two Sides To Every Story and played accordion in Riddles by hard bop saxophonist Bob Berg. He also composed the soundtrack for Jeffrey Jackson Bell’s drama film Radio Inside and the orchestration of Sakamoto’s for Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha. In 1995 Goldstein played the bass accordion, an unusual instrument, in duet with Jim Hall on “Snowbound” from his album Dialogues and wrote the soundtrack for Kikes, Wadatsumi No Koe.

In 1996 he contributed again with Elements, this time in its jazz fusion Untold Stories, released The Tango Kings and composed the orchestration of Chris Botti’s soundtrack for Robert M. Young’s erotic thriller Caught. In 1997 he played piano in post-bop Longing in duet with jazz saxophonist Bob Mintzer, took part in Moody Plays Mancini by jazz saxophonist and flutist James Moody and wrote the soundtrack for Billy Hopkins’s romantic movie I Love You, I Love You Not. In 1999 Goldstein composed the orchestration of Pat Metheny’s soundtrack for Scott Elliott’s drama film A Map of the World and the soundtrack for Mark Tarlov’s Simply Irresistible comedy.