Jeff Burger

Jeff Burger (byjeffburger.com) edited Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters, and Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, all of which were published in North America by Chicago Review Press.

Burger has been a writer and editor for more than four 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 magazines, newspapers and books, including Barron's, the Los Angeles Times, Family Circle, Melody Maker, High Fidelity, Creem, Circus, Reader's Digest, Gentlemen's Quarterly, All Music Guide, the Berkeley Barb, the Morton Report, and No Depression. He has published interviews with many leading figures from the music world, including Bruce Springsteen, Roger McGuinn, Wolfman Jack, Tom Waits, Foreigner's Mick Jones, Billy Joel, Tommy James, the Righteous Brothers, Deep Purple's Tommy Bolin, and members of Steely Dan and the Marshall Tucker Band. He has also interviewed many other public figures, such as Suze Orman, James Carville, Sir Richard Branson, F. Lee Bailey, Sydney Pollack, Daymond John, 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

Burger's website, byjeffburger.com, contains more than four decades' worth of music reviews and commentary.

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