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Soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and bassist Mark Helias play together in a new remotely recorded digital album. These seasoned improvisers line up just right, despite the recording challenges.

Mary Jane Dunphe (Vexx, CC Dust) inhabits her projects with a knurly otherworldliness. Hear "Love Letter" from her new country-rock band with Chris McDonnell.

This week marks the 50th Anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War. Michel Martin speaks with Jane Eisner, editor of The Forward, about Israelis' feelings toward marking the event.

She really can talk to the animals. Or at least the chimps. JANE GOODALL reflects on over 30 years in the company of one community of chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania. Goodall has co-written a new book, "Visions of Caliban" (Houghton Mi

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from China where film director Ang Lee has been working on a new movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It is a kung fu film, a first for Lee. He is best known for his adaptatation of novels such as Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Rick Moody's The Ice Storm, as well as movies like The Wedding Banquet and Pushing Hands.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the congressional race in 36th district of California, near Los Angeles, between incumbent Steve Kuykendall and former seatholder Jane Harmon. It's one of the battleground seats in this election, and the Democrats are hoping to retake the seat and others like it as they try to retake control of the house.

In Part Three of her month-long series on female jazz singers, NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg profiles Jane Monheit, a 22-year-old from Long Island, who's been singing since the age of two. (7:19) Monheit's debut album, Never Neverland is on the N-Coded label; ASIN: B00004SVKL.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Michael Levad of the Franklin Institute Science Museum about how he taught 30 school children three different chimp calls. The students were part of a ceremony announcing that anthropologist Jane Goodall will receive the Benjamin Franklin Award in Life Science for her work with chimpanzees.

Reporter Jane Mayer's recent article in The New Yorker examines the role of David S. Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and longtime legal adviser. Mayer says current and former Bush administration officials credit him with helping form the administration's legal strategy in the war on terrorism.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Spiderman 2, with Tobey Maguire revisiting the superhero based on the Marvel Comics series. Kirsten Dunst returns as Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker's love interest, and Alfred Molina stars as the villain Doc Ock.