FILM: Check out the original Inglorious Bastards by Italian director Enzo Castellari, which inspired the partial premise of Tarantino's upcoming version. Incidentally, Tarantino is a very bad speller. The original remains perhaps the biggest and toughest war movie in European cult film history. Action legends Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson and Bo Svenson star as the leaders of a gang of condemned criminals who escape from an Allied prison camp, only to find themselves 'volunteering' for a suicide mission deep inside Nazi occupied France.
7:30 p.m. // Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St) // $8
MUSIC: SFJazz presents trumpeter Roy Hargrove and reed expert James Carter, who will improvise all over the cavernous Grace Cathedral tonight. Hargrove is known for his experiments in Cuban grooves and his tribute to John Coltrane and Miles Davis, and he has also collaborated with Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, and Common. Carter "earned his stripes" with avant garde masters Lester Bowie and Julius Hemphill, and has also explored funk/fusion and Django Reinhardt-inspired swing.
8 p.m. // Grace Cathedral (1100 California St) // $22-50
PERFORMANCE: Who can resist such a catchy event name as Slam Bam Poetry Jam? Going on all weekend, it's your chance to "hear stories of adventure, intrigue, sex, and dirt through poetry, narrative dance, sketch comedy, music and storytelling with Samantha Chanse, Coke Tani Nakamoto, Noemi Sohn, Nancy Wang and Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo of Eth-Noh-Tec, Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu of First Voice. Presented by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and Eth-Noh-Tec
8 p.m. // SOMArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan St) // $10-14