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Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "Shanghaied on Tor Road," a new release of German improviser and guitarist Hans Reichel playing an instrument of his own invention, the daxophone. (FMP music).

2: Drummer ARTHUR TAYLOR. He's played with Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk and he's put together a new expanded collection of interviews he's done with fellow musicians: "Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews," (Da Capo Press). It's one of the few books about black jazz musicians by a black man, and because of that TAYLOR's subjects were able to talk freely about the role of black artists in white society. It includes interviews with Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Thelonious Monk and others.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Irrawaddy Tango," by Burmese novelist Wendy Law-Yone.

Chicago-based blues guitarist BUDDY GUY. Eric Clapton has called him "by far and without a doubt the best guitar player alive." Guy was born in Louisiana, son of a sharecropper. He moved to Chicago in the late fifties and played with all the greats...including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Junior Wells. Guy's now having a comeback. Guy has a new album, "Feels Like Rain." (Silvertone), which follows his Grammy-winning release, "Damn Right I've Got the Blues." (Rebroadcast from 8/

There will be no arts review. The interview with GOVERNOR ROBERT CASEY will continue.

lassical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews pianist Leon Fleisher''s new album, "Piano Works for the Left Hand." (on Sony).

2: Actor DENNIS HOPPER. He made his film debut in "Rebel Without a Cause," and has appeared in "Blue Velvet," "Rivers Edge," and "Hoosiers." Hopper directed, co-wrote, and starred in the 60's classic, "Easy Rider," for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He has directed several films, including "Colors," and "The Hot Spot." He co-starred with Christian Slater in the 1993 movie "True Romance," and with Wesley Snipes in "Boiling Point." He currently appears in the new film "Speed" with Keanu Reeves, and stars in "Red Rock West," which also stars Nicholas Cage and Lara Flynn Boyle. (INTERVIEW RECORDED IN 10

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no review. Interview with Betty Carter continues.

Filmmaker JOHN MCNAUGHTON, whose first film was the cult hit of 1990, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer". "We all have the murderous urge," MCNAUGHTON says of his main charater in that film, who as an anonymous everyman, kills many people without recognition nor retribution from society at large. Hailed by some critics as a slasher movie stripped bare of that genre's fantasy elements, "Henry" caught the eye of director Martin Scorcese, who backed MCNAUGHTON for this year's "Mad Dog And Glory", which starred Scorcese regular Robert DeNiro. Film director WALTER HILL. His newest film, which he produced and directed is "Geronimo: An American Legend." He's best known for action-oriented films which include, "Hard Times," "The Long Riders," "48 HRS," "Streets of Fire," and others.

Some Americans are getting another shot after being fully vaccinated. But should they?

Writer SHELBY FOOTE has created a niche for himself as a civil war historian. He is best known for his three volume history of the Civil War, called "The Civil War: A Narrative." He has just written a new book, "Stars in Their Courses," (The Modern Library) which re-creates the three-day Gettysburg Campaign. He was also the narrator of the eleven-hour PBS series "The Civil War," which aired in 1990. FOOTE is also the author of six novels.