“Isn’t it all just crazy?!” Jeff Goldblum says with a bemused smile, hands aloft in disbelief, as he reflects on what he describes as his recent “growth spurt”. He’s not referring to a sudden change in his already imposing height (he is six foot four) but to the fact that now, aged 70, he has managed to carve out an incredible second career as an acclaimed jazz musician alongside being a Hollywood actor. “Isn’t it really something?!”
Goldblum’s singular style and talent stood out in Hollywood from the get-go. A famous one liner in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (“I forgot my mantra”) stole the show, while his turn as an eccentric scientist in David Cronenberg’s gruesome sci-fi horror The Fly earned him a cult following. Blockbuster success arrived in the nineties via Independence Day and Jurassic Park and, more recently, he’s been a frequent face in the films of Wes Anderson. And, in between all that, there’s been jazz.
