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Fats Navarro recorded with many of the greatest soloists of his lifetime, despite his tragic death at 26. Along with showcasing Navarro's legendary skills on trumpet, The Fats Navarro Story captures the sounds of the best bepoppers from 1945-50. It also has rare recordings of the Billy Eckstine Orchestra.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum.

HBO's biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers debuts on the pay-cable network Sunday. Geoffrey Rush plays the great British comic. To celebrate, NPR's Scott Simon and New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell help movie fans brush up on some of Sellers' finest screen moments.

Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson gives his assessment of a new ad campaign by Internet service provider NetZero that mocks recent ads from America Online.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan looks at what the critics are saying about this week's major movie premieres, including Closer, The House of Flying Daggers and I Am David.

When European musical notation began in the 8th and 9th centuries, the Western world was already filled with music. Sacred chants and secular songs were rich with melody, rhythm and harmony. Richard Taruskin begins our chronicle with the early music of the church.

NPR'S Bob Mondello reviews the new film by Pedro Almodovar's new film, Bad Education Mondello says the film -- on its surface -- is about abuse and sexual transgression, but it is also a film about filmmaking.

John Fogerty, the creative force behind the '60s rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival, has released his sixth solo album. It's his first CD of new material in seven years. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Fogerty about his life and music.

James Cameron's new project combines two of his longstanding pursuits: deep-sea diving and alien life. The successful director says the fact that the animals in question live deep in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean doesn't make them any less foreign. Hear Cameron and NPR's Neal Conan.

The Tavis Smiley Show producer Roy Hurst talks with multiple award-winning playwright Tony Kushner about his new musical Caroline, or Change. Kushner, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his play cycle Angels in America, wrote the book and lyrics to the musical, based in large part on his childhood growing up in Lake Charles, La.