- Red Butte Garden opens its new amphitheater tonight at 7, with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra - featuring the great Wynton Marsalis. General tickets are $53, but forget it - it's sold out.

- If you can't get into that jazz show, the Salt Lake City Jazz Festival kicks off tonight at 5:30 p.m. at Washington Square (a k a the City-County Building), 400 South and State Street. Highlights: Jack Jones tonight at 7:40 p.m.; The E Family (Sheila E, along with Pete and Juan Escovedo), Saturday at 9:50 p.m.; and R&R (Rick Braun and Richard Elliott), Sunday at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 per day, available at SmithsTix.

- Journey, Heart (pictured) and Cheap Trick - essentially the playlist on the FM stations of my childhood - play Usana Amphitheatre in West Valley City, tonight at 7 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets, ranging from $25 to $125, are at SmithsTix.

- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy plays its retro-swing, tonight at 8 at the Ed Kenley Centennial Amphitheater, 403 N. Wasatch Dr., Layton. Tickets, at $23 and $28, are available at the door.

- Good Charlotte - the side project in which Joel and Benjy Madden perform when they're not acting as arm candy for Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton - and Boys Like Girls play Saturday at Saltair, 12406 W. Saltair Dr., Magna. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the opening act is Metro Station (a band that features Trace Cyrus and Michael Musso - who are the brother and TV co-star, respectively, of Miley Cyrus). Tickets are $26 in advance, $30 on the day of show, and are available at SmithsTix.

- The Salt City Shakers roller-derby squad bumps into FOCO Girls Gone Derby, Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Olympic Oval, 5662 S. 4800 West, Kearns. Tickets are $10 at SmithsTix.

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