Today’s Best Bets

Jazz

Usually heard as a sideman or setting the beat for the Modern Jazz Quartet, drummer Tootie Heath leads his own quartet tonight.

* Chadney’s Universal, 3575 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Universal City, (323) 851-1333.

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Music

You’re in for an evening of serious salsa when veteran New York percussionist Johnny Pacheco and singer Hector Casanova share the bill with local luminaries Johnny Polanco y Su Conjunto Amistad.

* Sportsmen’s Lodge, 12833 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, (818) 755-5000. Doors open at 8 p.m., show at 10 p.m.

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Television

Jay Leno presents Beauty and the Beast tonight, when his guests include Calista Flockhart (“Ally McBeal”) and WCW wrestler Goldberg.

* “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” 11:35 p.m., KNBC.

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Movies

Columbia Pictures 75th Anniversary Film Festival continues with a new print of Steven Spielberg’s landmark 1977 sci-fi classic, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” This is the “definitive director’s cut,” according to the studio.

* Cineramadome, 6360 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, (323) 466-3401. Through Sunday. Call for show times.