He left Perry to produce Leonard Cohen's album "The Future", and four Aaron Neville albums at A&M, including "The Grand Tour" and "Soulful Christmas". He later produced a song “Just Walk Away”, from Celine Dion's album, "The Color of My Love". He executive produced Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song" album, for A&M, which included performances by Peter Gabriel, Willie Nelson, Trisha Yearwood, Aaron Neville and Elton John. For Elton John’s "Duets" album, he produced songs "Born To Lose" by Elton John and Leonard Cohen, as well as “I'm Your Puppet" by Elton John and Paul Young. In 1997, he produced Guster’s album "Goldfly", and in 2005, produced Chris Botti’s breakthrough album "A Thousand Kisses Deep".