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: The Tasty Kings’ ‘Native Tongue,’ plus Dave Murphy and Massy Ferguson
Music Reviews: The New York Second’s ‘Room for Other People,’ plus a Dan Fogelberg/Tim Weisberg Collaboration
Music Reviews: Loudon Wainwright III’s ‘Loudon Live in London,’ plus Petra Onderuf Quartet
Music Reviews: A Potent Live CD from Hardwicke Circus plus Reissues from Jazz Innovator Oregon
Music Reviews: The Pioneering Mills Brothers, plus Moby Grape’s Bob Mosley and Veteran Folkie John McCutcheon
10 of 2024’s Best Albums and Box Sets
Music Reviews: Laura Nyro’s Massive ‘Hear My Song,’ plus the Rain Parade
Music & Film Reviews: Rolling Stones’ ‘Welcome to Shepherd’s Bush,’ plus Sun Ra, Christopher Cross, and B.B. King
Music & Film Reviews: Southside Johnny ‘Live at Rockpalast,’ plus Lucinda Williams, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Emily Remler
Music Reviews: George Harrison’s ‘Living in the Material World’ (Anniversary Edition), plus the Blasters and More
Music & Book Reviews: ‘Talking Heads:77’ Box Set, plus the Cowsills, the Flatlanders, a History of Street Singing, and More
Music Reviews: Elvis Costello’s ‘King of America & Other Realms,’ plus more new releases
Music Reviews: The Allman Brothers Band, plus Renaissance, Frank Sinatra, a David Olney Tribute, and More New Releases
By Jeff Burger 