SEATTLE, March 14 (UPI) -- The Northwest African American Museum announced its grand opening week will conclude with an event honoring Quincy Jones at the Seattle Paramount Theatre.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Rapper Kanye West paid tribute to his late mother Donda by singing his ballad "Hey Mama" at the 50th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday night.

CHARLESTON, W.Va., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- West Virginia football Coach Bill Stewart Thursday dismissed three players who face criminal charges, a report said.

Today's birthdays include Sonny Bono who was born in 1935; R&B singer James Ingram in 1956 (age 47); actor-rapper Ice T (real name: Tracy Morrow) in 1959 (age 44); former Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor in 1961 (age 42); and the Blow Monkeys' Tony Kylie

The weekly UPI Today in Music package for Feb. 15-21.

The Rolling Stones launched their 40th anniversary tour at Boston's Fleet Center with the self-assured cockiness of a band that knows how good it still is, playing a set of hits including "Satisfaction," "Jumping Jack Flash," "Street Fighting Man," "Brown

Lance Bass apparently is finished with his astronaut fantasy camp mission. The Russian Space Agency evicted Bass from its Star City space camp outside Moscow because the former 'N Sync star has failed to pay the $20 million ticket price for a seat on the

Tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec was born this day in 1918 in Newark, N.J. This Blue Note recording artist worked extensively through the 1940s with Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge and the Cab Calloway bands.

LOS ANGELES, July 22 (UPI) -- The husband-wife songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil is the exception to the rule that in the rock era, hot songwriters burn out fast. They are now