Today is May 4. Big band drummer Sonny Payne was born this day in New York in 1926. On and off he worked with the Count Basie band between 1954 and 1974, ...

Today is May 3. Trumpeter Yank Lawson was born this day in Trenton, Mo. A regular with the World's Greatest Jazz Band, he cut his jazz teeth with Wingy Manone, Ben Pollack, Bob Crosby, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman.

RAINFOREST FOUNDATION BENEFIT Jeff Beck, Carole King and Rebekah Del Rio, country's Wynonna Judd, Patti LaBelle and Smokey Robinson, and Lulu are among the performers who'll appear at Saturday's Rainforest Foundation benefit concert ...

NOTORIOUS B.I.G. The widow and the mother of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. are suing Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks, two former L.A.P.D. chiefs, and the city of Los Angeles, among others.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Here is a list of the nominees for the 44th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented tonight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, in ceremonies to be tele

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Here is a complete list of nominees for the 44th Annual Grammy Awards, which were announced in Beverly Hills Friday by the Recording Academy: