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: Chicago’s ‘VI Decades Live,’ Electric Flag’s ‘Live from California,’ and More
Music Reviews: Leonard Cohen’s ‘The Archives,’ Reissues from Steve Wynn, and More
Music Reviews: A New Edition of Led Zeppelin’s Classic ‘How the West Was Won,’ plus Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Other Band Tour,’ and More
Music Reviews: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Both Sides of the Sky,’ Elliott Murphy’s ‘Party Girls & Broken Poets,’ and More
Music & Film Reviews: Two Releases Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Moody Blues’ ‘Days of Future Passed’
Music Reviews: John Prine’s ‘Tree of Forgiveness,’ Tom Rush’s ‘Voices,’ Don Gibson’s ‘Hickory Years,’ and More
Music Reviews: ‘The Ru-Jac Records Story,’ and More
Music Reviews: ‘The Rolling Stones On Air,’ plus Belle and Sebastian and More
Music Reviews: New Reasons to Book a Stay at the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California,’ plus Uncle Walt’s Band, the Claudettes, and More
Music Reviews: A New Edition of Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 Breakthrough LP, plus Sue Foley, Andrew Sheppard, and Sam Lewis
Music Reviews: Roxy Music’s 1972 Debut Reappears as a Box Set, plus Gus Spenos, Ben de la Cour, and Birch Periera
Music & Film Reviews: Chip Taylor’s ‘Fix Your Words,’ ‘The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan,’ and More
Film & Music Reviews: Bee Gees ‘Live in Australia,’ Plus Nina Simone, Sunny War, and an Elmore James Tribute
By Jeff Burger 