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

In 1980 Goldstein introduced Wrapped in a Cloud and Sands of Time with double bassist Steve Swallow, electric bassist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb playing post-bop. In 1981 he participated in duet with jazz saxophonist Eric Kloss in Sharing and with drummer Billy Cobham’s jazz fusion group Glass Menagerie in Stratus, in which Goldstein brings “Wrapped in a Cloud” and Cobham lets his bandmates take the lead and make their own proposals. In 1982 Goldstein appeared in Smokin’, which features a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) with Glass Menagerie, and in Cobham’s Observations & Reflections.

Also in 1982 he published the book The Jazz Composer's Companion with a foreword by Bill Evans, 15 interviews with leading jazz composers and resources for musicians to expand their vocabulary. He also met Gil Evans, one of the most brilliant jazz orchestrators, with whom he worked until his death in 1988. In this way he learned his special arranging methods and contributed with him in Bud and Bird (1986) recorded live with the Monday Night Orchestra, which won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1989.

However, although Goldstein had already started an important recording career, his friends encouraged him to make arrangements and compositions as well. As a result, in 1984 he wrote the soundtrack for the movies Summer Switch and Mom’s On Strike, and in 1985 for Reckless Disregard. In 1989 he took part in the album All Across the City by the veteran and renowned jazz guitarist Jim Hall, in which he plays piano in the background and gives some hints with the synthesizer. In 1990 he collaborated in First Instrument by singer Rachelle Ferrell, in The Manhattan Project with great jazz fusion masters Wayne Shorter (saxophone), Stanley Clarke (electric bass) and Lenny White (drums), and in Live at Town Hall, Vol .2 again with Jim Hall.