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A remembrance for jazz pianist Mal Waldron, who has died at the age of 77. Waldron accompanied Billie Holiday in the 1950s, and played in bands with great artists like Charlie Mingus and John Coltrane.

Liane Hansen speaks with New York-based composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel. His CD of chamber works written over the past decade, called Soul Garden, is on CRI Emergency Records. Bermel also fronts a rock band, Peace by Piece, with a CD available on Miscellaneous Records.

Music reviewer David Greenberger tells us about a new release by The Posies. The band split up in the late nineties, but a new four-CD box set features outtakes and other previously unreleased material. It's called At Least, At Last.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, co-founders of the pop band Fountains of Wayne. Their new CD, Welcome Interstate Managers, is on S-Curve Records.

Rock historian Ed Ward offers a retrospective on the Australian group The Go-Betweens. The band has a new album, Oceans Apart, and is currently on tour.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Devils and Dust, the new album by Bruce Springsteen. The record is mostly a solo recording, without the backing of the E-Street Band.

Strike up the band, pass out the buttons and ready the tomatoes. Jim Nayder, host of public radio's Annoying Music Show, treats NPR's Scott Simon to some of the least vote-worthy campaign music.

Linda speaks with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, of the rock band Steely Dan, about their first new album since 1979: "Two Against Nature." They discuss why they took such a long break, and talk about their website, www.steelydan.com.

Play It As It Lays is Patti Scialfa's third solo CD. The New Jersey singer/songwriter, a longtime member of the E-Street Band, is married to Bruce Springsteen.

NPR's Ailsa Chang spoke with Shahidul Alam, a photojournalist, writer and activist based in Dhaka, about the longtime prime minister of Bangladesh fleeing amid protests.