SAN DIEGO ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS

As part of its Jazz on Film series, the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art will present “St. Louis Blues”--a 1958 film about W. C. Handy, the band leader, cornetist and songwriter who composed the song of the same name--at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Nat King Cole portrays Handy. Eartha Kitt and Ella Fitzgerald also star. Tickets are $3 general, $2 for La Jolla Museum members. The screening will be preceded by a jazz happy hour hosted by KSDS-FM (88.3).