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 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 newspapers and print and online magazines, 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, John Sebastian, 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 former preschool director and teacher. The couple have two grown children.
Music Reviews: Eric Andersen’s ‘Writer Series’ and ‘Woodstock Under the Stars,’ plus Al Stewart and Kelly Finnigan
Music Reviews: Two Releases Celebrate Grateful Dead’s ‘American Beauty,’ plus Duke Robillard and Jesse Colin Young
Music Reviews: Jimi Hendrix ‘Live in Maui,’ Jerry Jeff Walker’s ‘Atco/Elektra Years,’ and Kevin Rowland’s ‘My Beauty’
Music Reviews: Cameo-Parkway Reissues plus Steve Forbert and Jimmy LaFave
Music Reviews: A Deluxe Edition of the Doors’ ‘Morrison Hotel’ plus Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche, Beth Lee, and Sweet Lizzy Project
Music Reviews: A Deluxe Edition of U2’s ‘All That You Can’t Leave Behind’ plus Elliott Murphy and a Ska Anthology
Music Reviews: ‘The Harry Smith B-Sides’ and a Bee Gees Live Collection, plus Johnny Nicholas and Flamin’ Groovies
Book & Music Reviews: A History of TV’s ‘Ready Steady Go!’ plus Solomon Burke, Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, Paul Winter, and Felix Hatfield
Music Reviews: Lou Reed’s ‘New York,’ plus Gay Marshall and Rick Shea
Music Reviews: Barbara Lewis’s ‘Atlantic & Reprise Recordings,’ plus Bristol Sessions, Allman Brothers, Justin Farren, and Christian Kjellvander
Music Reviews: Rolling Stones’ ‘Steel Wheels Live,’ plus Rudy De Anda, Darlingside, and Radio Receiver
John Lennon Would Have Turned 80 Today
Music Reviews: Emma Swift Covers Bob Dylan, Plus Rachel Brooke, Little Richard, and Jordan Tice
By Jeff Burger 