Author: Jeff Burger
Jeff Burger edited Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters, Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters, and Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, all published in North America by Chicago Review Press. The books have been republished or set for republication in nearly a dozen other countries.
Burger has been a writer and editor for five decades and has covered popular music throughout his journalism career. His reviews, essays and reportage on that and many other subjects have appeared in more than 75 magazines, newspapers and books, including Barron’s, the Los Angeles Times, Family Circle, Melody Maker, Best Classic Bands, Americana Highways, High Fidelity, Creem, Circus, Reader’s Digest, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, All Music Guide, the Morton Report, and No Depression. He has published interviews with many leading musicians, including Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Van Zandt, Tom Waits, Billy Joel, the Righteous Brothers and the members of Steely Dan; and with such public figures as Suze Orman, James Carville, Sir Richard Branson, F. Lee Bailey, Wolfman Jack, Daymond John, Donald Trump, Sydney Pollack, and Cliff Robertson.
Burger has been editor of several periodicals, including Phoenix magazine in Arizona, and he spent 14 years in senior positions at Medical Economics magazine, the country’s largest business magazine for doctors. A former consulting editor at Time Inc., he currently serves as editor of Business Jet Traveler, which the American Society of Business Publication Editors named one of the country’s best business magazines in 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2018. The magazine, which Burger joined in 2004, was also named the best consumer travel magazine in the U.S. in 2020 in the prestigious Folio: Eddie awards.
Burger lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey with his wife, Madeleine Beresford, a writer, puppeteer, and preschool director and teacher. The couple have two children, Andre and Myriam.
Music Reviews: Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, plus Memphis Slim, New Earth Farmers, and an Anthology of Seminal Folk
Music Reviews: ‘Stranger in Town: A Del Shannon Compendium,’ plus Iris DeMent, the Church, and Furry Lewis
Music & Film Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Grrr Live!,’ plus Marshall Crenshaw, Savoy Brown, and More
Music Reviews: Dexys Midnight Runners, plus Jethro Tull and an Eric Andersen Tribute
Music & Film Reviews: Carly Simon’s ‘Live at Grand Central,’ plus Iggy & the Stooges, R&B from the 1940s, and Robert Forster
Music & Film Reviews: ‘Elvis on Tour,’ plus a Moon Mullican Tribute and JD Clayton
Music Reviews: An Unusual Anthology Collects Hits from 1957, plus Marvin Gaye and Diane Hubka
Music Reviews: A Box Set Showcases Bob Dylan’s ‘Time Out of Mind’ Sessions, plus Jeb Loy Nichols and Josh Sinton
Music Reviews: Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, the Impressions with Jerry Butler, Orchestra Gold, & Howdy Glenn
Music Review: Loudon Wainwright’s First Two Albums Reappear on a Single CD
Music Reviews: The Carter Family, Frank Zappa, and Janis Joplin with Jorma Kaukonen
Music Review: A Hot Concert Highlights the Beach Boys’ ‘Sail On Sailor – 1972’
Music & Film Reviews: Creedence Clearwater Revival ‘At the Royal Albert Hall,’ plus Dave Alvin’s ‘Eleven Eleven’ and Sam Platts’s ‘West Side’
By Jeff Burger 