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’

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