Larry Tye's 'The Jazzmen', a chat with Broadway star and award-winning performer Leslie Odom Jr. and the Best at Cannes

By Doug Doyle

Published May 25, 2024 at 6:44 AM EDT

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Broadway star and Tony and Grammy award-winner Leslie Odom Jr. who blew us away as “Aaron Burr” in the smash-hit musical Hamilton is performing at the Count Basie Center of the Arts in Red Bank May 26...

Leslie Odom Jr. is performing Sunday, May 26 at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, NJ

New York Times Best-selling author and former Boston Globe reporter Larry Tye joins us to talk about his latest book The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.

And WBGO's Film Critic Harlan Jacobson joins us from the Cannes Film Festival…

A scene from Furiosa — A scene from *Furiosa*

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Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 250 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.

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