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Correspondent Farai Chideya talks with jazz saxophonist Pamela Williams about her latest CD, Sweet Saxations.

Williams performs music from her new album, Emerald, alongside collaborator Jill Sobule.

Personal accounts and reflections of individuals affected by the Iraq war. Hear Paul Williams' diary entry.

Now solo, the former Civil Wars singer showcases her gorgeous voice in "Sweet Love Of Mine."

Gospel great Marion Williams is not a household name, but she inspired many blues and rock singers. Little Richard's signature wail was all Williams. Her wide-ranging voice gave recording engineers fits, her long-time producer says.

2: Actor WILLEM (WILLIAM) DEFOE. He's starred in "Platoon," "The Last Temptation of Christ," "Mississippi Burning," and "Wild at Heart." He's currently starring in "Body of Evidence," with Madonna. (REBROACAST. Originally aired 8

Writer and editor William Maxwell has died at the age of 91. Maxwell was on staff at The New Yorker for forty years, where he worked with many famous authors -- including J.D. Salinger and John Updike.

NPR Ends Juan Williams' Contract After Muslim Remarks NPR has terminated the contract of Senior News Analyst Juan Williams, due to remarks made on The…

NPR Ends Juan Williams' Contract After Muslim Remarks NPR has terminated the contract of Senior News Analyst Juan Williams, due to remarks made on The…

This performance from 2001 finds Williams on the heels of Essence, the heavily anticipated follow-up to 1998's Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Hear the beloved alt-country singer-songwriter perform.

A veteran of the New England folk scene, Williams emerged nationally in the mid-1990s, winning fans with her idiosyncratic songwriting, acerbic wit and lovely soprano voice.

William Russo, who composed and arranged music for Stan Kenton, also wrote works performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. He died recently at 74. Tony Sarabia of Chicago Public Radio offers an appreciation.

Charles Carr was driving the car on New Year's Eve 1952 when Hank Williams died from a heart attack in the back seat. He talks about the experience, and we hear some of Hank's music.

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Writer William Goldman died this week — he had an outsized influence on films, and the way we talk to each other. Scott Simon remembers the screenwriting giant.

Actor and comic Robin Williams is co-starring in the new animated feature Happy Feet. Recently, he starred in the film The Night Listener.

VENUS is the chronicle and result of Williams breaking free of her past projects. Formerly half of The Civil Wars, Williams explores a more adventurous pop sound on her first solo album.

Professor GREGORY HOWARD WILLIAMS. He spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black. WILLIAMS has written "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black" (Dutton) about the struggle and repression he faced growing up between the races. Publisher's Weekly calls it "(an) affecting and absorbing story.

Author and conservative innovator William F. Buckley died Wednesday morning at 82. Alex Chadwick talks with New York Times columnist David Brooks about the death of his friend.

Playwright Tennessee Williams kept "notebooks" for most of his life. Collected and annotated by Margaret Bradham Thornton, they have been published for the first time.