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Rolling Stone Music Now

Jeff Goldblum on Music, Movies, and Getting Ariana Grande to Sing on His Album

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Goldblum isn't just a great actor — he's a gifted jazz piano player, too. In a wildly entertaining interview with host Brian Hiatt, Goldbum talks about his new album, Still Blooming, his hopes for the sequel Wicked : For Good, how he got Ariana Grande to sing with him, and much more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Brian Hyde. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. So Jeff Goldblum isn't only the great actor you've seen in everything from the fly to Jurassic Park to Wicked.

0:10.0

He's also a genuinely gifted jazz piano player who's begun a recording career in recent years.

0:16.0

At age 72, he just released his fourth album, Still Blooming, with his band, The Mildred Snitcher Orchestra.

0:22.8

This one has some serious star power in its guest singers.

0:25.9

His wicked co-stars, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arevo show up, as does Scarlett Johansson.

0:31.9

Here's my conversation with Jeff Goldblum.

0:34.2

Music with Jeff Goldblum.

0:44.5

You've got that little Richard poster behind you.

0:45.2

How about that?

0:47.9

Good call, Miss Marlowe.

0:50.1

She's not like to Paul.

0:52.5

Oh, that's good.

0:54.1

I like that.

0:55.3

Ever play that stuff?

0:58.4

Ever mess around with that kind of rock and roll piano playing?

1:00.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:04.4

Sometimes I put my foot up on the piano and play like Jerry Lee Lewis,

1:07.0

and I never light it on fire or anything.

1:10.5

But I like a nice, yeah, Rocky.

1:14.2

There are things in the jazz, you know, way that can get funky and New Orleansy and, you know, you know, as you know, kind of funky. That's the beauty,

1:22.0

not to go too deeply too quickly. You know, but that's the beauty of jazz, as you know, and about music is that it's a

1:30.2

melting pot and a mix and a hybrid of many different things.

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