Thursday Jazz Night Series at the Spotlight

The Thursday-night jazz scene in L.A. is competitive, but Hollywood nightlife darling the Spotlight has found a way to make it feel sexy again. The club’s weekly sets trade stiff supper-club vibes for something looser and more flirtatious: cocktails, low lighting and young jazz musicians improvising while the room buzzes around them. The lineups rotate weekly, which gives the series an appealing drop-in quality. Even if you don’t know the players, the atmosphere alone makes this worth penciling into your Thursday plans.