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Decca Records is thrilled to reveal details of the forthcoming album from Hollywood icon Jeff Goldblum and his long-time band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, entitled The Capitol Studios Sessions. The highly anticipated debut from the jazz pianist will be released on November 9, 2018.

Goldblum, who has been playing the piano since he was a child, has performed with his jazz band at venues in Los Angeles and New York City over the past few decades. When he's not filming, the actor hosts a weekly jazz variety show at LA's Rockwell Table and Stage. Frequented by locals and A-listers alike, the show intersperses Goldblum's love of jazz with his passion and skills at improvised comedy.

The atmosphere and energy of these shows is captured perfectly on this album, which Jeff credits to producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Madeleine Peyroux). For the recording, Larry recreated the buzz of The Rockwell at the legendary Capitol Studios. The studio was transformed into a jazz club – food and drink was served to an invited live studio audience of Rockwell regulars, friends and family. 

This album lives in that magical area where artists and audiences meet. There is a joyful sense of anything-can-happen and a spirit of creative generosity-in how Jeff speaks to his fans, how he accompanies guest singers and soloists, and especially in how Jeff comps. To Jeff, his role within the context of a jazz band is a seamless connection with his acting:

"I love improvising and that feeling of communication and interplay. It's one of the cornerstones of my acting technique. I see my music in the same way." – Jeff Goldblum 

The Capitol Studios Sessions is the realization of this idea: jazz and standards presented in a manner that dares to be high-spirited and to make you feel good. The repertoire includes favorite ‘60s jazz numbers ‘Cantaloupe Island' and ‘I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)', the 1940s classic ‘Straighten Up & Fly Right' with guest vocals from Irish superstar singer and songwriter Imelda May, ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me' from 1930, featuring American songstress Haley Reinhart and the 1920s song 'Me And My Shadow' sung by comedian and actress, Sarah Silverman. The band is joined by the extraordinary Grammy-nominated trumpeter Till Brönner.

Jeff Goldblum and The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra deliver the feel and the swing, and they make it fun, funny, and familiar. Those are words not often associated with jazz, though they still can be, and with this album we are reminded of that. 

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

The Capitol Studios Sessions

Decca Records

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1 Cantaloupe Island  
2 Don't Mess With Mister T  
3 My Baby Just Cares For Me  
4 Straighten Up And Fly Right  
5 Jeff Introduces Sarah Silverman  
6 Me And My Shadow  
7 Nostalgia In Times Square  
8 It Never Entered My Mind  
9 Gee Baby (Aint I Good To You)  
10 I Wish I Knew  
11 This Bitter Earth  
12 Come On-A-My House  
13 Caravan  
14 Good Nights  

Press Release
Jeff Goldblum, SNO feat. Haley Reinhart - My Baby Just Cares For Me
Straighten Up And Fly Right - Jeff Goldblum & Imelda May. The Graham Norton Show
It Never Entered My Mind (Live At Capitol Studios, Los Angeles / 2018)
Rockwell Table & Stage show in Los Angeles
Jeff Goldblum on CBS Sunday Morning

Decca Records is thrilled to reveal details of the forthcoming album from Hollywood icon Jeff Goldblum and his long-time band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, entitled The Capitol Studios Sessions. The highly anticipated debut from the jazz pianist will be released on November 9, 2018.

Goldblum, who has been playing the piano since he was a child, has performed with his jazz band at venues in Los Angeles and New York City over the past few decades. When he's not filming, the actor hosts a weekly jazz variety show at LA's Rockwell Table and Stage. Frequented by locals and A-listers alike, the show intersperses Goldblum's love of jazz with his passion and skills at improvised comedy.

The atmosphere and energy of these shows is captured perfectly on this album, which Jeff credits to producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Madeleine Peyroux). For the recording, Larry recreated the buzz of The Rockwell at the legendary Capitol Studios. The studio was transformed into a jazz club – food and drink was served to an invited live studio audience of Rockwell regulars, friends and family. 

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  • Jeff Goldblum plays a mean piano on The Capitol Studios Sessions / NEWCASTLE HERALD
    Posted At : November 14, 2018 12:00 AM

    JEFF Goldblum has made a jazz album. Yes, you've read that correctly. Before you dismiss it as another celebrity vanity project, the Jurassic Park star plays a mean jazz piano, having tinkled the keys since he was 10. Goldblum's suave personality also oozes all over The Capitol Studios Sessions, which was recorded live with his backing band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. It's there in his cheeky flirting with ex-American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart, who performs My Baby Cares For Me and with comedian Sarah Silverman, who Goldblum describes as "the most beautiful Amy Winehouse." Goldblum and Silverman's duet of Me And My Shadow might lack polish, but it's great fun. That's the story of Goldblum's album, riotous fun. SEE THE NEWCASTLE HERALD PAGE p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px}
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  • Jeff Goldblum's 'Capital Studios Sessions' is like a long lost perfect puzzle piece / The Michigan Daily
    Posted At : November 12, 2018 12:00 AM

    From his stint in "Jurassic Park" as a sharp-tongued mathematician to his more recent role in Marvel's "Thor: Ragnarok" as The Grandmaster, Jeff Goldblum has grown to be a true pop-culture icon. The addition of "jazz musician" to Goldblum's vibrant and diverse roster is more than fitting. His new album with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, The Capital Studios Sessions, is like a long lost perfect puzzle piece - the world didn't know it needed Jeff Goldblum singing and performing jazz with Sarah Silverman and Haley Reinhart until he gave it to them. While Goldblum doesn't reinvent jazz the way one might expect (many consider jazz to be a "dying" genre in need of reinvention or a merciful death), he capitalizes on the advantages of jazz as a genre of live performance. The result is a strange yet delightful mixture of satisfying jazz riffs, velvet-smooth vocals and playful humor. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE FULL Michigan Daily REVIEW
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  • On The Capitol Studios Sessions, Jeff Goldblum turns the studio into a club / RiFF magazine
    Posted At : November 7, 2018 12:00 AM

    Jeff Goldblum is a dish best served in person, but for anyone unable to attend one of his performances with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, his long-in-the-making debut album evokes a comparable front-and-center experience. On The Capitol Studios Sessions, Goldblum turns the studio into a sophisticated club. He captures the warmness and personality of a live big band jazz performance while maintaining studio quality instrumental and vocal performances. Much in the way Steve Martin has warmed up his audience to the world of bluegrass, Jeff Goldblum has built a not-so-secret second career of making jazz digestible to film fans. What he and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra have made here can be appreciated by jazz veterans and casual listeners alike. Much of that has to do with the credibility of performers like singer-songwriter Imelda May and jazz trumpeter Till Brönner. READ THE FULL RiFF magazine REVIEW
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  • WOW, Jeff Goldblum's Capitol Sessions is truly infectious / theartsdesk
    Posted At : November 7, 2018 12:00 AM

    Take a bow Jeff Goldblum who, with a little help from friends Imelda May, Haley Reinhart, Sarah Silverman and Grammy-winning trumpeter Till Bronner, transports us into a chic cabaret club for an evening with Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. Goldblum leads from the piano throughout, engaging in jokes and banter with his fellow performers, in a live set recorded in Studios A and B at Capitol Records in LA.  Larry Klein is the producer and he ought to be pleased with Goldblum's opening number, "Cantaloupe Island", by Herbie Hancock, one of his many celebrated artists. The Duke would surely love "Caravan", which bowls along briskly, Kenny Elliot's drums, Joe Bagg's Hammond and Alex Frank's slapped bass coalescing nicely beneath James King on sax and Bronner on trumpet, Goldblum of course sitting in Ellington's seat. Imelda May puts her stamp on "This Bitter Earth", a 1960 hit for Dinah Washington, and "Come On-a-My House" while Haley Reinhart tips her hat to Nina Simone on "My Baby Just Cares for Me". The verbal knockabout between Goldblum and comedian Sarah Silverman works well, Silverman at times channelling Edith Bunker as she trades ad-libbed lines with the piano man. Charles Mingus' "Nostalgia in Times Square" is very cool. Wow, this is truly infectious! Feel-good music played so well and by a guy whose day job is as an actor.  READ THE FULL artsdesk REVIEW
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  • Jeff Goldblum's life is like a jazz piece / CBS: SUNDAY MORNING
    Posted At : November 5, 2018 12:00 AM

    Jeff Goldblum's life is like a jazz piece: his acting improvisational, his style unpredictable. He's made an art of being offbeat. "I'm a strange figure," he told Anthony Mason, before turning the tables on his interviewer: "I like that hearty laugh. I'd like to hear you sing!" "Oh, no, you wouldn't," Mason said. Goldblum has starred in two of the nineties' biggest blockbusters, as a computer geek who saves the planet in "Independence Day," and a math whiz who fights off dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park." Suddenly, at 66, he's become … a fashion icon, honored by In Style magazine just the night before he invited Mason into his closet, to examine his eye for the unusual, like the vintage frames he bought for his part in "Grand Budapest Hotel." Even his skills as a musician are finally getting recognition. Goldblum, who for 20 years has played a weekly gig at an L.A. jazz club with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra (named for a family friend), will release his first album next week. WATCH THE CBS: SUNDAY MORNING SEGMENT
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  • Watch Jeff Goldblum's vid for 'It Never Entered My Mind' / EntertainmentFOCUS premiere
    Posted At : October 25, 2018 12:00 AM

    Jeff Goldblum and his long-time band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra are preparing to release their debut album next month and today we're premiering their new video It Never Entered My Mind. Originally recorded by Miles Davis, the 6-minute track showcases Goldblum's jazz talents and you'll see him in a completely new light. Goldblum will release his debut album The Capitol Studios Sessions on 9th November 2018. Talking about the album, Goldblum says: "I love improvising and that feeling of communication and interplay. It's one of the cornerstones of my acting technique. I see my music in the same way."  PHOTO: Pari Dukovic WATCH THE VIDEO via EntertainmentFOCUS
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  • Jeff Goldblum also has a jazz band / SYFYWIRE: chosen one of the day
    Posted At : October 13, 2018 12:00 AM

    Can we all just agree that Jeff Goldblum is entirely too talented? He's both a style icon and versatile actor who seems to be one of the most-loved humans on the planet. And there are enough reasons to love him we've devoted an entire month to him. But that's not all. Jeff Goldblum also has a jazz band. And if you're ever in Los Angeles, they have a weekly show at the Rockwell, which is an intimate space where you're basically within 10 feet of Jeff Goldblum for several hours WHILE HE PLAYS JAZZ MUSIC. For some, that may be too intimidating but the soothing music (and some booze) will keep you calm and swaying.

    That's right. His talent knows no end. Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra have been performing live for over five years leaving us wondering: HOW DOES HE FIND THE TIME?! Watch Jeff and Mildred perform live via SYFYWIRE and JUST LOOK HOW HAPPY HE IS PLAYING THAT PIANO
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  • Jeff Goldblum and Imelda May perform together on 'The Graham Norton Show' / entertainment.ie
    Posted At : October 9, 2018 12:00 AM

    As Jeff Goldblum told us a few months ago, the actor has just made his first album - an album full of jazz classics because, come on, of course - and had none other than the Liberties' very own Imelda May playing a couple of tracks on it. Last Friday night on 'The Graham Norton Show' saw Imelda join Jeff Goldblum for a cracking performance of 'Straighten Up And Fly Right' with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, a band Goldblum's been playing with for many years now. As Goldblum announced right after the performance, May "sang the hell out of it" and admitted that the recording on the album was done almost like a live club. The album drops on November 9th and, in the meantime, here's the performance itself. WATCH THE VIDEO via entertainment.ie
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  • Watch Jeff Goldblum's 'My Baby Just Cares For Me' from forthcoming 'Capitol Studio Sessions / udiscovermusic.
    Posted At : September 25, 2018 12:00 AM

    Iconic Hollywood star turned renowned jazz pianist Jeff Goldblum has released a new video for ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me', which features on his album recorded with his long-time band, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, The Capitol Studio Sessions.  Goldblum has played piano since he was a child and has explored his love of jazz with shows in Los Angeles and New York in recent years. When not filming, he hosts a weekly jazz variety show at Rockwell Table & Stage In Los Angeles, which showcases both his musical dexterity and improv comedy talent, and has become a favourite event with both locals and A-listers. As uDiscover Music previously reported, The Capitol Studio Sessions recreates the atmosphere of those Rockwell shows, with the famed Capitol Studios transformed into a jazz club for the recording, with food and drink served to an invited live audience of Rockwell regulars, friends and family. The Capitol Studio Sessions was produced by the esteemed Larry Klein, widely respected for his work with Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Madeleine Peyroux and others. READ THE FULL udiscovermusic. ARTICLE & WATCH THE VIDEO
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  • Jeff Goldblum's semi-regular jazz night has returned to Los Feliz, and it's as delightful as ever / Los Angeles Magazine
    Posted At : April 6, 2018 12:00 AM

    You haven't truly heard your name until you've heard Jeff Goldblum say it. The 65-year-old actor loves savoring-and sometimes butchering-names when he works the room at Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Feliz. Goldblum's signature, oft-imitated speaking style has a bebop quality: a swingin' rhythm and distinct musicality, punctuated with those jazzy "uh"s and "um"s. The crowd of around 150 may have turned up for the novelty of hearing the cult character actor, famous for roles in The Fly, Jurassic Park, and Independence Day, play jazz. That he did, tickling the ivories with his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra-named after a lady he knew growing up in Pittsburgh-as he does semi-regularly on Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. He was back this week from a hiatus after doing a "publicity marathon" for Thor: Ragnarok, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Isle of Dogs. But the real draw for most people-and maybe for Goldblum himself-is the chance for ordinary folks to have an intimate, loose hang sesh with a very charming, very self-aware Hollywood icon. "This is my real reason for doing this," he says as he wades into the sea of tables, mingling. "I don't get a chance to get out of the house." p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE FULL Los Angeles Magazine ARTICLE
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