Vocalist Annie Ellicott blends coquettishness with cool on renditions of Sonny & Cher’s The Beat Goes On and Nat King Cole’s Straighten Up and Fly Right the LA lounge lizard-y vibes are ramped up by organist Joe Bagg, and Alex Frank is a fantastically dextrous double bassist. There are smooth runs through numbers by Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock and Charles Mingus. “Any Geordies?” “Fuck off!” the Sunderland man shouts back.Goldblum trades in all this back and forth with supremely, even mythically winning charisma, and his twinkly charm is parlayed into swing numbers with his band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. “Sunderland?” A single man yells affirmation. Between songs, there is a quiz where the audience have to call out famous film quotes (Titanic splits the crowd between “paint me like one of your French girls”, “I’m the king of the world” and, er, “ICEBERG!”), and a bit where Goldblum canvasses the crowd on where they’re from. Photograph: Joel C Ryan/Invision/APThe set itself also turns out to be as much about affable banter as jazz, “a new form of music that’s driving all the kids crazy”, according to Goldblum.
As his band close out with the Jurassic Park theme, the crowd at the West Holts stage has swelled massively, everyone basking in a beam of starlight. But his magnetism is its own instrument. “I’m known for the glissando,” he says wryly he relies on cascading note runs, one-note solos and vamping chords rather than virtuosity. But he is game enough to admit his own frailties.
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