Terry Gross

Philip Furia talks specifically about the lyrics Dorothy Fields wrote. Furia is Chairman of the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is also author of "Poets of Tin Pan Alley."

Singer Becky Kilgore and pianist Dave Frishberg perform music by Dorothy Fields.

Composer and Broadway director Cy Coleman talks about working with Dorothy Fields in the 1960s and 70's with Dorothy Fields. They collaborated on the Broadway shows "Sweet Charity," and "Seesaw." Coleman is the composer and director of the current Broadway show, The Life.

Singer Becky Kilgore and pianist Dave Frishberg perform music by Dorothy Fields.

We remember the late lyricist Dorothy Fields in the first of an on-going series on American popular song. Born in 1905, She was the only woman in the pre-rock era to sustain major critical and popular acclaim as a songwriter. First, We feature singer Becky Kilgore and pianist Dave Frishberg perform music by Dorothy Fields.

biographer Deborah Grace Winer talks about Fields life and music. Winer is author of "On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Life and Lyrics of Dorothy Fields."

The late jazz saxophonist, Gerry Mulligan. This week, which marks what would have been his 72nd birthday, The Library of Congress opened a permanent exhibit celebrating his life and work. Mulligan died in 1996. The exhibit includes his favorite saxophone, photographs, and musical manuscripts. He's been an innovator in modern jazz orchestration. Early in his career he was staff arranger for Gene Krupa's big band. In 1949 he collaborated with Gil Evans and Miles Davis in the Nonet. The nine-piece band shook up jazz arrangers and launched the era of so-called cool jazz.

Jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli (Pitz-uh-RELL-ee). On his newest album "Contrasts" (Arbors) he teams up with his son John Pizzarelli. Bucky Pizzarelli has been a fixture in jazz and the studios since the early '50s. Self-taught, Pizzarelli has long been a master of the seven-string guitar. In 1952 Pizzarelli joined the staff of NBC and 12 years later he switched to ABC; in addition he worked with the Three Sounds (1956-57) and had several tours with Benny Goodman.

Anthony Loyd is a reporter for The Times of London. He left Kosovo shortly after the NATO attack on Yugoslavia began.He talks about what Kosovo was like just before the war.

The CIA's Public Affairs Director William Harlow. The retired Navy Captain has written a new novel, a political-military thriller. It's called "Circle William" (Scribner) and has as one of its heroes a White House press secretary. Harlow was also a public affairs officer in the Navy Secretary's office and was former White House national security aid under Reagan and Bush.