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: Steve Goodman’s ‘Live ’69,’ David Bromberg Band’s ‘Big Road,’ plus Western Centuries and Rory Block
Music Reviews: A Final Word from Game Theory, plus Matt Wilson, David Nail, Eliza Gilkyson, Lisa Mills
Film & Music Reviews: Bob Dylan’s ‘Masked and Anonymous’ Arrives on Blu-ray, plus Carla Olson’s ‘Have Harmony, Will Travel 2’
Music Reviews: Sam Cooke’s ‘Complete Keen Years,’ plus Michael Doucet, Michel Petrucciani, Chris Maxwell
Music Reviews: ‘Echo in the Canyon’ Soundtrack, plus the Claudettes, David Childers, and Hot Club of Los Angeles
Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s Holiday Rave-Up, plus the Mastersons and Will Sexton
Music Reviews: Marty Stuart’s Pivotal ‘The Pilgrim’ plus Sweet Lizzy Project, Phast Phreddie, and Grant Peeples
Music Reviews: Hank Williams’s Essential ‘Pictures from Life’s Other Side,’ plus Mick Kolassa and Letitia VanSant
Music Reviews: The Honeycombs’ ‘Have I the Right?’ plus Wild Rabbit Salad, the Lil Smokies, and the Righteous Brothers’ Bobby Hatfield
Music Reviews: Pink Floyd’s ‘The Later Years’ plus Seamus Egan and Big Mike
Music Reviews: Leonard Cohen’s Unexpected ‘Thanks for the Dance,’ plus Bruce Springsteen’s ‘1990s Broadcast Collection’
Music Reviews: A Surround-Sound Blu-ray Highlights a New Edition of the Band’s Second Album, plus Simon & Garfunkel and Paul Kelly
Music Reviews: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Fillmore East Concerts,’ plus Rebecca Turner and Modern English
By Jeff Burger 