the Baked Potato

{{Short description|Jazz club in Los Angeles, California}}

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The Baked Potato is a prominent jazz club on Cahuenga Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, opened by Don Randi (father of bassist Leah Randi) in 1970. Randi formed his own group, Don Randi and Quest, as the house band. Over the years it has hosted many live recordings from jazz fusion artists. Larry Carlton recorded Last Nite there in 1986. In 2010 The Baked Potato was named the Best Jazz Club in Los Angeles by Los Angeles magazine.{{cite news |url=http://www.lamag.com/guides/bola/Details.aspx?id=5440 |title=Best Jazz Club |magazine=Los Angeles |date=August 2010 |accessdate=10 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812224202/http://www.lamag.com/guides/bola/Details.aspx?id=5440 |archivedate=12 August 2014 }} They have cited it as a "mainstay for session players since 1975".{{cite book|title=Los Angeles Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hl0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA131|date=August 1997|publisher=Emmis Communications|page=131|issn=1522-9149}} Nick Menza of Megadeth collapsed and died while playing here with his band OHM on May 21, 2016.{{cite news |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7378350/nick-menza-former-megadeth-drummer-dies-on-stage-at-51-ohm-dave-mustaine |title=Nick Menza, Former Megadeth Drummer, Dies On Stage at 51 |publisher=Billboard|date=May 21, 2016 |accessdate=22 May 2016}}

The club is mentioned in the 2016 musical film La La Land.{{cite news |url=http://dailytrojan.com/2017/02/08/misunderstood-art-theres-jazz-la-la-land/ |title=Misunderstood art: There’s more to jazz than La La Land |work=Daily Trojan |first=Max |last=Kapur |date=February 8, 2017 |accessdate=May 13, 2017}}