Jazz: Kneebody at the Blue Whale

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Fixtures at Santa Monica’s genre-hopping Temple Bar in the early ‘00s, the members of genre-mashing jazz group Kneebody have evolved into attention-grabbing sidemen and bandleaders in their own right. Trumpeter Shane Endsley’s album “Then the Other” was one of the highlights of 2011, and saxophonist Ben Wendel just released a splendid recording of his own, “Frame.” But when the group finds time to come back together it’s a sure bet for a raucous occasion colored by twisted diversions into funk and indie rock. The Blue Whale, 123 Astronaut E.S. Onizuka St., Suite 301, L.A. 9 p.m. Thu.-Sat., $15 ($25 for two nights; $35 for all three nights). https://www.bluewhalemusic.com