Radu Goldiş (born 1947 in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

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) is a Romanian-born American

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

guitarist and

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. Goldiş is a graduate of the Bucharest Music Conservatory in the

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

department. He was Influenced by

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, and

Rune Gustafsson Rune Urban Gustafsson (25 August 1933 – 15 June 2012) was a Swedish jazz guitarist and composer. He performed with Arne Domnérus, Jan Johansson, and Zoot Sims among others. Life and career Rune Gustafsson was born in 1933 in Gothenburg. ...

. He has played with

Johnny Răducanu Johnny Răducanu (born Răducan Crețu; 1 December 1931 – 19 September 2011) was a Romanian jazz pianist of Romani ethnic background, whose family has a long musical tradition dating back to the 17th century. He was born in Brăila and started ...

Eugen Gondi Eugen Gondi (b. 1947, in Timișoara) is a Romanian-born jazz drummer. He graduated from the Arts Middle School in his hometown. He started his musical career by playing with the "Paul Weiner Free Jazz" trio. He has played with many famous Roman ...

, and

Horia Moculescu Horia Moculescu (born 18 March 1937 in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania) is a self-taught Romanian pianist, composer, and producer. After finishing high school in Turda, he studied at the Mining Institute in Petroșani Petroșani (; Hungarian: ''Petro ...

. He composed music for the Romanian movies ''Zile fierbinṭi'' and ''Accident'' (both in 1976). With

Adrian Enescu Adrian-Floru Enescu (31 March 1948 – 19 August 2016) was a Romanians, Romanian composer of film soundtracks and contemporary music. As an individual musician, he also pioneered the local Electronic music, electronic scene during the 1970s and 19 ...

he composed music for the Romanian movie ''Al patrulea stol'' (1978) and with Petru Mărgineanu he composed the music for the American-Romanian movie ''Point Zero- Cry of Redemption'' (1995). He has worked as an orchestrator for

Margareta Pâslaru Margareta Pâslaru or Pîslaru (; born July 9, 1943, in Bucharest) is a Romanian-American singer, actress, composer, lyricist, TV producer, and artistic director. Debuting in 1958, Pâslaru celebrated the 50th anniversary of her career at The Roma ...

Discography

* ''Alter Ego'' (

Electrecord Electrecord is a Romanian record label which was founded in 1932. It was subsequently transformed into the national recording company following the socialist doctrine of centralization and was the only record label in Communist Romania. History ...

, 1980) * ''Jazz Restitutio 4'' (Spinning Wheel, Electrecord, 1993) * ''Romanian Jazz: Jazz from the Electrecord Archives 1966–1978'' (Balada, Sonar Kollektiv, 2007 * ''Unconditional Love''

References

*Mihai Berindei, ''Dicționar de jazz'', Editura Științifică și enciclopedică, București, 1976, p. 107 1947 births Living people American film score composers American male film score composers American jazz guitarists American jazz musicians Romanian emigrants to the United States Romanian jazz musicians 20th-century American guitarists American male guitarists 20th-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians {{US-composer-20thC-stub