Jeff Goldblum on How He Got Ariana Grande on His New Album ‘Still Blooming’ | Billboard News In Conversation

Jeff Goldblum is on the verge of releasing his fourth album, Still Blooming. The actor-musician reveals how he nabbed Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Scarlett Johansson to take part on his album, teases what’s to come in Wicked: For Good, talks about playing the piano for in the White House, dabbling in scatting and more!

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Lyndsey Havens:
You’re releasing your fourth album. 

Yes, ma’am. 

Still Blooming, coming in April. Tell me a bit about this project. When did you start working on it? What inspired it? 

It’s our fourth album with the great Decca- 

Yes.

label and Verve. But this one, as we continued and found ourselves at Scott Gilman studio, The Hobby Shop, we said, “Let’s make some more music, and let’s get some more singers to do, like we had on our other three, half of the tracks.” So on this one, we got half kind of instrumentals, and we’ll talk about all the tracks, if you like, and half singers, so let’s do more of that. And we found ourselves in the studio and doing it for heaven’s sakes because we had good ideas that we were excited about. And we’ve got merchandise coming out with a, you know, that has something to do with that. And the singers to whom I referred we’ll talk about, you know, how about that? 

Yes, we will talk about that. 

Because maybe they don’t even know yet, but you do, you listened to it.

I know, yeah, some pretty big names. Before we get into the features, I need to ask the obvious questions. You’ve had quite a life and career, but do you feel as though you are still blooming? 

Well, like the record title suggests, refers to, yeah. 

How nice. 

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