Mar 12th, 2010 · News and notes from around the Jazz Internet, including Miles Davis biopic info, best big band records, jazz Manouche, Steve Wilson and Pete Malinverni recorded, a Norwegian bassist in Texas, something about Mary Halvorson and a must-read Christian Scott interview.
Mar 5th, 2010 · The idea behind the isn't a new one. But it might be more relevant than ever. Read an interview with founding members Alexis Cuadrado and Anne Mette Iversen.
Mar 5th, 2010 · All five of the directors nominated for an Academy Award appeared on Fresh Air to discuss their latest films. Before the Oscars on Sunday, listen to James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, Quentin Tarantino, Lee Daniels and Jason Reitman discuss what it takes to create an Academy Award nominated film.
Mar 2nd, 2010 · All day today, the staff at NPR Music has been consumed with finding new ways to rework composer Frederic Chopin's name. It all started because this year marks the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth. NPR Music is celebrating the occasion with a series of live performances, interviews and essays, and someone mentioned that we were in a state of Chopin-demonium from all of our exhaustive coverage, followed by the appropriate groans.
Feb 21st, 2010 · A book by the chairman of HSBC proposes a "new capitalism" that brings good business and good ethics together. In an NPR interview, Green, who is also an ordained priest in the Church of England, says moral and spiritual values should take precedence over immediate profit for the world's major banks.
Feb 20th, 2010 · In California, it's been seven months since some 3 million poor and disabled adults lost their dental coverage to budget cuts. In interviews with dozens of dentists and safety-net clinics around the state, providers say patients are foregoing routine cleanings and delaying care until the pain is unbearable.
Feb 19th, 2010 · After working together on the films Ocean's 11, 12 and 13, actor Matt Damon and director Steven Soderbergh teamed up again on the film The Informant!, a dark comedy about a rising corporate executive at Archer Daniels Midland who blows the whistle on price fixing. This interview was originally broadcast on September 16, 2009.
Feb 12th, 2010 · In a Washington Post interview, Attorney General Eric Holder left open the possibility of trying professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before a military commission.