Sam First Wednesday Jazz Residency

“Wednesday at the jazz club five minutes from LAX. Fifty-five…”

Sam First believed Los Angeles needed a jazz club close enough to LAX that musicians flying in could play the same night, with the acoustic intimacy of a New York room. So they built it that way — fifty-five capacity, no bad seats, two sets nightly Tuesday through Saturday. Wednesday is Hump Day — reduced cover, the same Sam First booking philosophy. The booking philosophy is: working jazz musicians playing standards and originals at a level that the city's working jazz musicians come to see. Sets at seven-thirty and nine-thirty. Twenty dollars Wednesday cover. Drinks separately. Inglewood. Five minutes from the airport. The crowd is the LA jazz community plus the visiting players who happen to have a day off.