GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 28 (UPI) -- Wind Point Partners, a private equity firm, bought Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Co., a Michigan office product maker, for $106 million plus debt assumption.

MOSCOW, April 21 (UPI) -- The European Union wasted billions of euros as part of its assistance to Russia and other former Soviet republics, the European Court of Auditors said.

BRUSSELS, June 8 (UPI) -- In response to growing voter complaints, hundreds of European Parliament candidates are jostling to sign away the lavish fringe benefits incumbents have.

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The 31st annual conference of the International Association for Jazz Education is expected to attract record labels of all sizes at the Jan. 21-24 event.

Cuban trumpeter and bandleader Mario Bauza was born this day in Havana in 1911. He died in 1993. Bauza gave trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie a major career lift in 1939 by bringing him into Cab Calloway's high profile band.

Drummer Denzil Best was born in New York City this day in 1917. He was a favorite sideman of Ben Webster, George Shearing and Erroll Garner until calcium deposits in his wrists crippled his career. He died in May 1965 after falling down a flight of steps

Bass player Al McKibbon was born this day in 1919 in Chicago. This wide-ranging player replaced Ray Brown in Dizzy Gillespie's first jazz orchestra.

Cornet legend Buddy Bolden was born this day in 1877 in New Orleans. Some consider Bolden to have been the first true jazz horn player, though much information about him is more legend than fact, and no recordings exist of his music.

German jazz saxophonist Joki Freund was born this day in 1926 in Schwalbach, not far from Frankfurt. He had his own hard bop quintet in the 1950s and also played tuba in a traditional jazz band. In the 1960s, he worked with Albert Mangelsdorff, Donald Byr