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A tribute to Sheila Jordan and get ready for the new season at Crossroads Theatre Company

By Doug Doyle

Published August 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM EDT

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Sheila Jordan, jazz vocalist; Picture taken in Jazz Club Unterfahrt, Munich/Bavaria

On the August 16 WBGO Journal...

We pay tribute to NEA Jazz master and pioneering vocalist Sheila Jordan, who died earlier this week at the age of 96……

WBGO’s Jon Kalish has the first of a two part series on LA Jazz Musician Brad Kay who has found a rare recording from the 1940’s…..

And we’ll find out about the new season at the famous Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick, New Jersey…

Natak Garrett Myers, John Kani and Lynn Nottage

Host Doug Doyle chats with Crossroads Theatre Company Managing Director Ezra Ezzard and the Tony Award-winning company's co-founder Ricardo Khan

Ezra Ezzard (top left) and Ricardo Khan (bottom) share a laugh with WBGO's Doug Doyle

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Doug Doyle

Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998. Since then, Doug and his news staff have received more than 300 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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