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 & Film Reviews: Jack Scott’s ‘Singles & Albums Collection,’ plus Mandy Barnett, ‘The US Festival,’ and Emily Scott Robinson
Music Reviews: Bob Dylan’s ‘Live 1962-1966’ Evidences Astonishing Growth, plus the Posies
Music Reviews: Grateful Dead’s ‘Anthem of the Sun’ (50th-Anniversary Ed.), plus Eliza Gilkyson, Clay Parker & Jodi James, and Junior Byles
Music Reviews: Lou Reed’s ‘Live Archive,’ plus Thomas Dolby, Chicago Farmer, and Raquel Bell
Music Reviews: ‘The Rose Garden Collection,’ the Byrds’ Gene Clark ‘Sings for You,’ and More
Film Review: ‘Firesign Theatre—Just Folks…Live at the Roxy’
Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Acoustic Radio 1973,’ plus Joe Ely, Tony Joe White, and Galen Ayers
Book & Music Reviews: Two Volumes Put Pink Floyd Under a Microscope, plus the Animals, Cliff Westfall, and Love Canon
Film & Music Reviews: ‘Bang—The Bert Berns Story,’ plus John Scott Sherrill and John Wesley Harding
Music Reviews: John Prine’s ‘Broadcast Archive,’ plus Rory Block’s Bessie Smith Tribute and More
Music Reviews: The Beach Boys and Roy Orbison Meet the Royal Philharmonic, plus Kinky Friedman and Liz Frame
Film & Music Reviews: ‘Alone with Chrissie Hynde’ of the Pretenders, plus Tomislav Goluban and Davis Kathriner
Music Review: ‘Battleground Korea—Songs and Sounds of America’s Forgotten War’
By Jeff Burger 