Jeff Goldblum

Peter Weller, with whom I had done Buckaroo Banzai, this movie that some people know, we started to play in our houses, go through all the fake books, as they called them, and play all the standards.

And then he has a friend.

He had a friend, believe it or not, Miles Davis, the great Miles Davis.

Incredible.

I know.

Incredible.

He said, oh, you and Jeff, you should go and get a gig even once a week and play with real musicians and you'll get better and you'll have fun.

That's how it started about 30 years ago.

And then, you know, I kept it up whenever I wasn't working because I loved it.

doing it, and we played at the Hollywood Bowl for the Playboy Jazz Festival, and that's when we came up with this name, the Mildred Schnitzer Orchestra, and that kind of stuck.

And then about 10 years ago, Tom Lewis from Decca, now called Fontana, our label, and Verve in America, saw me on the Graham Norton Show promoting Thor Ragnarok.

because Gregory Porter, the great singer, was on the show doing Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you.

He was doing this Nat King Cole album.

And he said, Jeff, can you play piano with me?

So the two of us played.

And so Tom Lewis said, hey, Jeff, we should do an album together.

And now this is our fourth one coming out June 5th, Night Blooms.

And we've been all over the world touring.

And here we come.

That's the story.