Gil Goldstein

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Gil Goldstein (2008)

Gil Bruce Goldstein (* 6. November 1950 in Baltimore ) is an American jazz - and fusion - accordionist , keyboard player and pianist .

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Goldstein learned to play the accordion as a child, and later also cello and piano. He studied at Berklee College of Music and worked from 1973 with Pat Metheny , Pat Martino , Lee Konitz , Wayne Shorter and others.

He played in Billy Cobham's rock jazz formation Glass Menagerie in the early 1980s . As one of the rare accordionists in jazz, he worked with Bob Berg (1994), Jim Hall (1995) and Eliane Elias (1996). He also accompanied Michel Petrucciani and Richard Galliano on tours.

In the late 1980s he was a member of the last Gil Evans band and played after Evans' death on the album A Tribute to Gil in 1988. In 1993 he founded the Zebra Coast Orchestra , in which musicians such as Jorge Pardo , Wolfgang Muthspiel , Don Alias and Mino Cinelu played. He has also worked as a keyboardist and pianist on numerous jazz and fusion recordings by musicians as diverse as Bernard Purdie , Randy Brecker , Eddie Harris ( The Last Concert , 1996), Didier Lockwood , Joe Lovano , Helen Merrill , Pat Metheny ( Secret Story , 1991), Bob Mintzer , Claudio Roditi , Wallace Roney , David Sanborn , Mike Stern and Lenny White as well as arranger for the SFJazz Collective . In 1991 he took part in the concert Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux .

In 2007 he was involved in the album Your Songs: The Music of Elton John (ObliqSound) with Steve Swallow , Paul Motian and the Italian saxophonist Pietro Tonolo . The quartet played jazz arrangements of some of Elton John's most popular songs .

Goldstein also worked on film projects such as De-Lovely, the Cole-Porter story , where he played the song " I Love Paris ", and in Little Buddha as an arranger. He won three Grammy Awards ; two for the production and the arrangement of Michael Brecker's album Wide Angles (2003).

His collaboration with Bobby McFerrin on his album Spirityouall earned him another Grammy Award in 2014 . In McFerrin's piece Swing Low with Esperanza Spalding , he was awarded for the arrangement (Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals).

Goldstein teaches as a professor at New York University .

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SURNAME Goldstein, Gil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldstein, Gil Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and fusion musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , USA