SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Comedian Eddie Murphy and his first wife, Nicole Mitchell Murphy, have sold their vacation home in Granite Bay, Calif., for $6.1 million.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A little more than two weeks after their symbolic wedding in Bora Bora, actor Eddie Murphy and producer Tracey Edmonds have announced they are splitting up.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds, who had a wedding in French Polynesia this week, plan to make the union legal by marrying again in the United States.

BORA BORA , French Polynesia, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy married film producer Tracey Edmonds in a sunset ceremony on a private island off Bora Bora in French Polynesia.

LOS ANGELES, July 29 (UPI) -- Hollywood funnyman Eddie Murphy has proposed to his girlfriend, Tracey Edmonds, TMZ.com reported Sunday.

Trumpeter and singer Taft Jordan was born this day in 1915 in Florence, S.C. The Chick Webb, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman sideman died in New York in 1981.

On this day in 1975, pianist Keith Jarrett set a new standard for recorded solo jazz performance. The occasion was a performance in Koln, Germany, -- one in a series of live concerts in Europe after a brief stint in the Miles Davis band.

Saxophonist Frank Wess was born this day in 1922 in Kansas City, Mo. In addition to being a top tenor player, the Basie band veteran also is one of the premiere flute players in jazz.