Singer-songwriter and actor-jazz pianist team up for improvised “Time After Time” at Blue Note Jazz Club
Charlie Puth’s Blue Note residencies jumped from New York City to Los Angeles this week, and in Tinseltown, he welcomed a surprise celebrity guest to the stage: Actor and jazz pianist Jeff Goldblum.
“I love to give a new up-and-coming singer a chance,” Puth quipped prior to welcoming Goldblum to the stage.
The singer-songwriter and actor-jazz pianist linked up for a pair of songs at Friday night’s performance: A rendition of the jazz standard “Every Time We Say Goodbye” and an improvised take on Cyndi Lauper’s classic “Time After Time”:
Goldblum then quizzed the audience of much-younger Puth fans on which film he starred in alongside Lauper. No one, not even Puth, had the correct answer: The 1988 comedy Vibes.
Ahead of the release of his upcoming studio album Whatever’s Clever, due out March 6, 2026, Puth scheduled a pair of Blue Note Jazz Club residencies: In September, Puth debuted “Changes,” and a few other Whatever’s Clever! songs, during his four-night residency at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club, with one show featuring a cameo from one of Puth’s songwriting heroes, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds.
Puth’s four-show Los Angeles residency continues Saturday and Sunday night.