Jeff Goldblum Re-Teams With ‘Wicked’ Co-Stars Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo on Upcoming ‘Still Blooming’ LP

Something Wicked this way comes on Jeff Goldblum‘s upcoming album, Still Blooming. The singer/actor’s latest jazzy LP with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra is due out on April 25 and it will feature duets with both of his Wicked co-stars, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.

The always-charming double-threat star previewed the collection on Thursday (Jan. 30) with a taste of the first single, a slinky cover of “The Best Is Yet to Come” featuring vocals from Scarlet Johansson. The song co-written by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh is best known for Frank Sinatra’s 1964 version with the Count Basie Orchestra from his It Might as Well Be Swing album; it was first recorded by Tony Bennett for his I Left My Heart in San Francisco album (1962), and has also been taken on by Michael Bublé, Bob Dylan, Chaka Khan and Ella Fitzgerald over the years.

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“Out of the tree of life, I just picked me a plum/ You came along and everything started to hum,” Johansson breathily sings over a subtle, bossa nova arrangement.

Grande helps Goldblum kick things off on his fourth album with her take on the 1931 standard “I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do),” another song recorded by Sinatra, with Erivo pulling up for the sentimental “We’ll Meet Again.” According to the track list for the 9-song album that a release said features the actor along with “his talented friends, all veterans of the stage and screen, with collaboration that underscore the delicious link between jazz and pop culture,” it will also feature vocals from Maiya Sykes on “Stella By Starlight” and Goldblum himself on “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye.”

Other tracks on the album from Verve Records described as a “tasteful curation of beloved jazz standards from both the Golden Era of Broadway and the Great American Songbook” include: “The Grease Patrol,” “Blue Minor,” “Bye-Ya” and “Bouncing with Bud.”

Listen to “The Best Is Yet to Come” below.

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