8 pm: Jazz

Just before Tuesday’s release of his new album, “Let’s Get Lost: The Songs of Jimmy McHugh,” acclaimed trumpeter Terence Blanchard leads his quintet in an evening that also features vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson.

* Terence Blanchard and Bobby Hutcherson, Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach, 8 p.m. $25-$30. (562) 985-7000.

all day: Movies

Jason Alexander, Mary Steenburgen, Reese Witherspoon and Carol Burnett headline the voice cast of “The Trumpet of the Swan,” an animated musical adaptation of E.B. White’s children’s classic. Louie, a mute trumpeter swan, goes to great lengths to compensate for his lack of voice. Richard Rich and Terry L. Noss directed from a script by Judy Rothman Rofe, with music by Marcus Miller.

* “The Trumpet of the Swan,” rated G, opens Friday in selected theaters.

8 pm: Theater

Five dead Broadway actors, whose flops got them consigned to musical theater purgatory, try to gain admission to musical theater heaven by performing an afterlife revue in the premiere of “The Grave White Way,” by Joe Patrick Ward. Each evening, a celebrity guest will help plead the actors’ case to God. John Raitt appears opening night. Other celebrities slated to participate include Rene Auberjonois, Jason Graae, Davis Gaines, Harry Groener and many more.

* “The Grave White Way,” Hudson Backstage Theatre, 6537 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood. 8 p.m. Regular schedule: Thursdays to Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m. Ends June 17. $27.50 to $30. (310) 289-2999.

7:30 pm: Movies

The American Cinematheque’s “Side Streets and Back Alleys: The Third Annual Festival of Film Noir” features a wide assortment of femmes fatales, gumshoes, capers and cons. The festival includes 24 films from the 1940s and ‘50s. Classics like “The Asphalt Jungle” and “The Killers” play alongside more obscure noirs such as “Under the Gun,” “Shakedown” and “Bury Me Dead.” Many screenings will include appearances by actors and filmmakers.

* Side Streets and Back Alleys: The Third Annual Festival of Film Noir, American Cinematheque, Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. “The Asphalt Jungle,” Friday, 7:30 p.m.; “Hangover Square,” Friday, 9:45 p.m.; “The Locket,” Saturday, 6 p.m.; “The Gangster” and “Suspense,” Saturday, 8:30 p.m.; “Caged,” Sunday, 5 p.m.; “Talk About a Stranger” and “The Crooked Way,” Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Continues through May 27. $6 to $8. (323) 466-FILM.

7 pm: Pop Music

Quick, name a blues-influenced rock figure who made a notable recording of “House of the Rising Sun” in the ‘60s and this month celebrates his 60th birthday. Bob Dylan? Right. Eric Burdon? Right again. The latter beat Bob to that milestone by a couple of weeks, and he’ll celebrate with two parties-cum-concerts at the El Rey scheduled to include two other founding members of the Animals, drummer John Steel and guitarist Hilton Valentine, along with the Doors’ Robby Krieger, Nancy Sinatra, Spencer Davis and other Burdon friends and collaborators.

* Eric Burdon’s 60th Birthday, El Rey Theatre, 5515 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 7 p.m. $50. Also Saturday at 8 p.m. (323) 936-4790.

9 pm: Pop Music

Peaches and Chilli Gonzales sound better than Merrill Nisker and Jason Beck, the respective given names of two Canadians who found new identities as funk-punk provocateurs after moving to Berlin. They try to bring the buzz to L.A. with a show at Spaceland.

* Peaches & Gonzales, Spaceland, 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., L.A., 9 p.m. $TK. (213) 833-2843.

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FREEBIES

Thirty-second videos by 10 artists from the California Institute of the Arts will be displayed in the windows of Gallery 825 from sundown till 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 825 N. La Cienega Blvd., L.A. (310) 652-8272.

The Nairobi Trio plays at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., at 5:30 p.m. (323) 857-6115.

Actor-dancer Leonard Crofoot performs his piece “Nijinsky Speaks” at 8 p.m. at Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood. (310) 440-7300.