Having His Kate

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SOUND BITES Graceland has become the Heartbreak Hotel for 50 of its employees, who are being laid off after a 15 percent drop in visitors to Elvis Presley's home since Sept. 11. Officials at the Memphis shrine note that they've been hurt by the decline in foreign tourists visiting the United States, since a third of the pilgrims to the Jungle Room traditionally come from abroad.

LEGAL BRIEF British prosecutors are dropping assault charges against Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay due to insufficient evidence. Photographer Dennis Gill accused Kay of attacking him and damaging $360 worth of camera gear outside a London nightclub in April. Kay, 31, had pleaded not guilty.

PASSING NOTES Tommy Flanagan, the jazz pianist who served as Ella Fitzgerald's musical director for nearly 20 years, as well as the leader of his own trio, died Friday of an arterial aneurysm at a Manhattan hospital. The 71-year-old pianist, who also worked with Tony Bennett and played as a sideman on such landmark albums as John Coltrane's ''Giant Steps'' and Sonny Rollins' ''Saxophone Colossus,'' was known for his dazzling yet restrained technique. Among his trio's best known albums were ''Jazz Poet'' (1989) and ''Let's'' (1993).

Originally posted Nov 20, 2001

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