Jeff Goldblum Gets Jazzy
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Over Jeff Goldblum's 50-year acting career, he’s played dozens of unforgettable roles. Off-camera, Jeff Goldblum is also a surprisingly dedicated Jazz pianist who has been playing in clubs and bars for over 30 years. He’s released two albums with his band the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. Their latest, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This, features vocals from Gregory Porter, Fiona Apple, and Miley Cyrus.
On today's episode Broken Record host Justin Richmond and producer Leah Rose talk to Goldblum about how he started playing piano in Pittsburgh cocktail lounges at 15, his morning practice routine, and about meeting two of Jeff's heroes: Stevie Wonder and Muhammad Ali.
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| 0:00.0 | I love Jeff Bulblum. |
| 0:17.9 | Over 50 year act in career, he's played unforgettable roles, like the snarky scientist in Jurassic |
| 0:23.4 | Park. |
| 0:24.4 | He saved the world from an alien invasion with Will Smith in an independent stay, and most |
| 0:28.4 | recently he was incredible and Thor Ragnarok. |
| 0:32.0 | Next year he'll be in the newest installment of Jurassic Park, and Jeff even has his own |
| 0:35.8 | show on Disney Plus. |
| 0:37.9 | But the one place I didn't expect him to show up was in jazz. |
| 0:41.7 | Jeff Bulblum is a surprisingly dedicated jazz pianist. |
| 0:45.7 | He played a weekly gig in LA with his band, the milder snitzer orchestra, until the pandemic, |
| 0:51.4 | and he still practices every morning. |
| 1:08.4 | He's released two albums with his band. |
| 1:10.7 | Their latest is, I shouldn't be telling you this, featuring vocals from Gregory Porter, |
| 1:15.2 | Fiona Apple, Miley Cyrus, and more. |
| 1:18.9 | Before he starts thinking this is just a celebrity vanity project, it's not. |
| 1:22.8 | Justin playing around for 30 years in clubs and bars. |
| 1:26.4 | Broken record producer Leah Rose and I talked to Jeff on Zoom about his career as musician. |
| 1:31.9 | He told us about how he started playing piano and Pittsburgh cocktail lounges at 15, about |
| 1:36.9 | his morning practice routine, and he tells us about meeting two of his heroes, Stevie Wonder |
| 1:43.3 | and Muhammad Ali. |
| 1:48.8 | This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age. |
| 1:51.6 | I'm Justin Richmond. |
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