Wyclef Jean performs Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" and a portion of Van Halen's "Jump" on Bravo's Musicians, which airs on Monday night . . . DJ Jazzy Jeff has enlisted the Roots and Jill Scott to make guest appearances on his upcoming record, The Magnificent: A Beat Generation, due in August . . . The Chieftans are in Nashville recording an album of duets with Alison Krauss, Martina McBride, John Hiatt, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and others; a companion DVD is also being filmed during the sessions . . . The Peter Green Splinter Group was joined by John Lee Hooker's daughter Zakiya Hooker for a cover of "Crawlin' Kingsnake" in San Francisco on Friday. Green also recorded the song for From Clarksdale to Heaven: Remembering John Lee Hooker, a tribute album due later this year . . .

Lucy Pearl and Tony Toni Tone's Raphael Saadiq will release a solo album, Instant Vintage, on June 11th . . . Gravity Kills cancelled several tour dates after keyboardist Doug Firley injured his hand on stage. The tour will resume on May 19th . . . Bad Company will release In Concert: Merchants of Cool on CD, DVD and VHS on May 21st. The group will kick off a U.S. tour on May 29th in San Diego . . . Juan Gabriel won four Billboard Latin Music Awards on May 9th in Miami Beach, including Songwriter of the Year. Ricky Martin was presented with the Spirit of Hope Award for his charitable work . . .

Pearl Jam have wrapped recording on their seventh studio album; a title and release date have not yet been set . . . Two guitars once owned by Jerry Garcia sold for $1.74 million in an auction held at Studio 54 in New York City on May 8th . . . Bob Dylan will resume his U.S. tour behind Love and Theft, starting August 2nd in Worcester, Massachusetts . . . Ozzy Osbourne and his family signed a $3 million deal for two books to be published by Pocket; the first is due in November, the second next spring . . . Phantom Planet will open for Incubus on the latter's summer tour which launches on May 24th in Minneapolis . . . Abandoned Pools will join Lenny Kravitz and Pink on their thirty-three-date summer tour, which begins July 12th in Virginia Beach . . .

Earth Wind and Fire will receive the heritage award from ASCAP at the Rhythm and Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills, California, on June 17th . . . Jefferson Airplane's Jorma Kaukonen, the David Grisman Quartet and Leo Kottke will perform on the inaugural JamGrass tour, which begins July 18th in Columbia, Maryland . . . Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo's new side project, Superjoint Ritual, featuring Hank Williams III on bass, will hit the road for a nineteen-date tour to begin June 7th in Atlanta . . . Rick Wakeman will rejoin Yes for a twenty-two-date U.S. tour to begin July 17th in Seattle . . .

Jon Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea, welcomed a baby boy, Jacob, on May 7th in New Jersey. He is their third child . . . Stevie Nicks and Anastacia have joined the lineup for the May 23rd VH1 Divas Las Vegas; the Dixie Chicks, Mary J. Blige and Celine Dion are among the previously announced performers . . . Papa Roach have removed a cover of Faith No More's "Naked in Front of a Computer" from their upcoming album, lovehatetragedy and replaced it with a take on the Pixies' "Gouge Away" . . . Public Enemy will release their next album, Revolverlution, on July 23rd . . . The Who's biggest hits from the Sixties to the Eighties will be compiled on the two-CD The Who: The Ultimate Collection, due on June 11th . . .

Otis Blackwell, who wrote "Don't Be Cruel," "Great Balls of Fire," "All Shook Up" and other hits for Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and others, died of a heart attack on May 6th at age seventy . . . Steve Earle will perform at the Grand Ole Opry on May 11th; the show will be broadcast live on CMT . . . Comedian/actor Jamie Foxx has signed on to play Ray Charles in the upcoming film, Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Story . . . Dogs Eye View frontman Peter Stuart will release his first solo album, Propeller, on August 6th; Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz and Moon Zappa make guest appearances . . . Destroy -- SEX PISTOLS 1977 will be published in June; the book features more than 170 shots of the punk pioneers taken by their official photographer, Dennis Morris . . .

Jennifer Lopez has signed on to produce and star in a movie version of the opera "Carmen," to be written by "Moulin Rouge" scribe Craig Pearce . . . Kid Rock and Hank Williams Jr. are planning to duet on the latter's "The F Word" at the thirty-seventh annual Academy of Country Music Awards, which take place May 22nd in Los Angeles . . . Filter and Sevendust have been added to the lineup for the Locobazooka festival tour, which begins on June 27th in Milwaukee . . . ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson received a Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestration nomination for the Broadway musical Mamma Mia! . . . The Jim Rose Circus will celebrate its tenth anniversary with an eight-date U.S. tour starting June 2nd in Portland, Maine . . . Songs by Fatboy Slim, Guided By Voices, Tricky and Pennywise will be included on ESPN's Ultimate X: The Movie soundtrack, due May 14th . . .

Korn will headline the K-Rock Dysfunctional Family Picnic Episode IV on June 8th in Wantagh, New York. System Of A Down, Jimmy Eat World, Incubus, Papa Roach and the Strokes will also perform . . . The Doves, the Blue Man Group and Dieselboy have been added to Moby's Area2 Tour, which will begin on July 28th in Virginia; David Bowie and Busta Rhymes are among previously confirmed performers . . . Betty Blowtorch frontwoman Bianca "Butthole" Halstead's ashes, placed inside a Kiss lunchbox, were buried on on May 5th in Los Angeles. Halstead died in a car accident on December 15th . . . Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw and Jo Dee Messina have contributed songs to Inside Traxxx, a NASCAR-sponsored compilation due June 11th . . .

D12 and Gorillaz collaborated on "911," a new track for the soundtrack to Bad Company, due June 4th . . . The Pet Shop Boys, Kenny Chesney and Remy Shand are among the artists who will perform at the Today Weekend Edition concert series this summer in New York City, which kicked off with a Brian McKnight performance on May 4th . . . Ozzy Osbourne's dog, Pipi the Pomeranian, was returned to the family last week; Pipi was missing for more than a month . . . NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt placed a black stripe under his car's left headlight at the Pontiac Excitement 4000 on May 5th in honor of the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes . . . A new Counting Crows song will appear on the soundtrack to Mr. Deeds, which also includes Adam Sandler's duet with David Bowie on the latter's "Space Oddity"; the soundtrack is due June 11th . . .

Papa Roach, the Strokes, Rob Zombie and P.O.D. will perform at the Live 105 BFD Concert in Mountain View, Calif., on June 14th . . . Rhino Records has purchased the rights to Chicago's twenty-six albums, which will be reissued in groups of three starting July 16th; the two-CD Complete Greatest Hits will be released July 2nd . . . Snoop Dogg will contribute a new song, "Undercova Funk," as the first single to the soundtrack for Undercover Brother . . . Tweet and Redman have added vocals to a Missy Elliott remix of Me'shell Ndegeocello's "Pocketbook," from her upcoming album, Cookie . . . Ray Charles received an honorary doctorate of philosophy degree from Albany State University in his hometown of Albany, Georgia, on Monday . . .

(May 10, 2002)