POP/ROCKJazzed About Coleman: Jazz innovator Ornette Coleman...

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Jazzed About Coleman: Jazz innovator Ornette Coleman has won the International Bird Award. The award, named for the American jazz saxophonist Charlie (Bird) Parker, honors musicians who have had a lasting influence on international jazz. The accolade is sponsored annually by the group in The Hague, Netherlands, that puts on the North Sea Jazz Festival, where Coleman is scheduled to perform Sunday. The 64-year-old Texas-born musician and composer is noted for an innovative jazz style that allows the rhythm section to interact freely with horns, becoming more than strictly a time keeper.

Fan-Tastic: What a fan. Joan Marie Schaublin is now Michael Jackson, legally. The 38-year-old changed her name in a Green Bay, Wis., circuit court Friday to show support for the pop star, who has been fighting allegations he sexually molested a 13-year-old boy. She also quit her job to be a full-time fan.

TELEVISION

Nick’s Summer Bash: Cable’s Nick at Nite begins its Block Party Summer tonight. During the two-month-long event, six episodes of a particular classic series will air back-to-back from 8 to 11 p.m. each weeknight. The bash begins with “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which will air Mondays; on Tuesdays, it’s “I Love Lucy”; on Wednesdays, “Bewitched”; on Thursdays, “I Dream of Jeannie”; and on Fridays, “Dragnet.”

Quints’ Story: “Million Dollar Babies,” a miniseries starring Beau Bridges and Kate Nelligan based on the story of the Dionne quintuplets, is currently in production in Montreal for CBS. The movie chronicles the lives of the five sisters, the first known surviving quintuplets. Bridges stars as Dr. Dafoe, the country doctor who delivered the quints and became their legal guardian; Nelligan plays a broadcast journalist.

Simpson Video: MPI Home Video will “rush release” a video containing two ABC News programs dealing with the O.J. Simpson murder case. The video hits stores next Monday and includes the June 17 “Nightline” program, subtitled “The End of the Search for O.J. Simpson,” and the June 21 installment of “Turning Point,” subtitled “Inside the O.J. Simpson Story.” The latter program features ABC News correspondents Barbara Walters, Sam Donaldson and Forrest Sawyer talking with Simpson’s friends and colleagues.

MUSIC

No Taylor After Tenors: Actress Elizabeth Taylor has canceled a post-concert charity dinner planned for Dodger Stadium following “Encore! The Three Tenors” on July 16. Funds from the dinner, which Taylor was set to host, were to have gone toward building a new facility in South-Central Los Angeles providing shelter and medical care for HIV and AIDS patients. A spokeswoman for concert organizer Rudas Organization said “various matters beyond the control of Elizabeth Taylor, including her recent hip operation, have made it impossible to properly prepare” for the event. The spokeswoman said she didn’t know how dinner tickets--priced at $2,000 and up--were selling but added that ticket sales didn’t have anything to do with the cancellation.

Returning to the Stage: Seven-time Grammy winner Anita Baker will give her first public performance in more than three years today when she appears as the featured soloist with the Boston Pops for its Fourth of July concert at Detroit’s Hatch Shell. The concert, conducted by Marvin Hamlisch, will be broadcast live on the A&E; network at 4:30 p.m.

Not Enchanted: Two former Benedictine monks who say they scored the music on a hot-selling CD of Gregorian chants claim they are entitled to some $5 million in royalties. The two-disc CD, “The Best of Gregorian Chants,” unexpectedly soared to the top of the Spanish music charts this year and has gained recognition worldwide. The CD of medieval Latin plainsong was released in March in the United States under the title “Chant.” It made it to No. 1 on the American classical charts--and then made it into the top 10 on the pop charts. The album was compiled from recordings by monks in a Benedictine monastery in northern Spain. The two ex-monks--Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta and Francisco Lara--served as directors of that choir. Officials at EMI-Odeon, the music company that distributed the CD, claim the chants are in the public domain and therefore not protected by copyright.

PEOPLE WATCH

Closed by Close: Glenn Close has closed shop, and not just at the Shubert Theater, where she starred in “Sunset Boulevard” until June 26. Close and her sister, Jessie, have sold the Leaf & Bean coffee shop in Bozeman, Mont., which they bought in 1991. Jessie Close said it was time to move on. Glenn Close also sold Poor Richard’s News, a newspaper and magazine shop in the area, which she bought in 1993.

QUICK TAKES

Former “Saturday Night Live” and “Designing Women” co-star Jan Hooks has joined fellow “SNL” alum Martin Short on the cast of “The Martin Short Show,” a new NBC comedy premiering this fall. Short will play the star of a prime-time variety series, and Hooks will play his comedienne wife. . . . The United States Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team from Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., will help Jay Leno celebrate the Fourth of July tonight when the group appears on NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”