Today's birthdays include Gerry and the Pacemakers keyboardist Leslie Maguire and former Moody Blues keyboardist Mike Pinder, both of whom were born in 1941 (age 61); bassist Peter Quaife of the Kinks in 1943 (age 59); Mick Jones, guitarist with Spooky To

The weekly UPI Today in Music package for Dec. 21-27.

Today is Friday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2002 with 39 to follow.

Today's birthdays include songwriter Hoagy Carmichael in 1899; Three Dog Night drummer Floyd Sneed in 1943 (age 59); bassist Aston Barrett of Bob Marley and the Wailers in 1946 (age 56); Steve Van Zandt, a.k.a. "Miami Steve" or "Little Steven," formerly w

The weekly UPI Today in Music package for Nov. 16-22.

Composer Hoagy Carmichael was born this date in 1899 in Bloomington, Ind. An associate of Bix Beiderbecke and the Dorsey Brothers, Carmichael is best known for the terrific standards he wrote, including "Stardust," "Skylark" and "Georgia On My Mind."

Ferdinand Joseph Lemott, better known to the music world as Jelly Roll Morton, was born this day in 1890. By the time he was 12 years old, he was playing ragtime piano in bordellos in the Storyville section of his native New Orleans.

New Orleans is planning a massive celebration of native son Louis Armstrong's birthday from August 2-4. Music, food, a jazz mass, a club crawl and panel discuss

Pianist Ahmad Jamal was born this day in 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pa. His distinctive musical voicings, particularly his spare melodic style, had a profound influence on Miles Davis. The trumpeter credited Jamal for his stylistic preferences, and recorded many