JazzWax
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Marc Myers in 2016
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| Born | September 4, 1956 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Known for | Wall Street Journal music and arts contributor, founder of JazzWax blog |
| Website | http://jazzwax.com |
Marc Myers (born September 4, 1956, New York City) is an American journalist, author and historian and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, where he writes on music and the arts. In 2007, he founded JazzWax, a top-ranked daily jazz blog that won the 2012 and 2015 Jazz Journalists Association's "Blog of the Year" award.
Myers was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York City and Westchester County in N.Y. According to his website, he studied journalism at Northeastern University (undergraduate) and U.S. history at Columbia University (graduate).
He began his writing career at The New York Times in the late 1970s as a college intern, joining the newspaper full-time in 1980 in the sports department. In 1985 he left to become an associate editor at Adweek, where he wrote about advertising and marketing, helping to launch Brandweek. For a time, he was business editor at Working Woman magazine, where his responsibilities included editing cover business and celebrity profiles, and was editor of Bottom Line/Personal in the 1990s. In February 1999, his essay on President Bill Clinton’s luck was published by the New York Times’ Op-Ed page. He began writing on music and the arts for The Wall Street Journal in 2010.
Since June 2010, Myers has written for The Wall Street Journal as a contributor on music and the arts, specifically rock, R&B and jazz. He has interviewed more than 500 leading musicians and celebrities for the paper.
He currently writes three regular columns. These include the weekly "House Call" column for the Mansion section and the weekly "Playlist" column for the Review section. He also writes the "Anatomy of a Song" column for the Arena section, which features oral-history interviews with the composers and recording artists of iconic R&B and rock hits.
He also has written on architecture for the Wall Street Journal: Milan’s The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Barcelona’s Palau de la Musica,Boston’s John Hancock Tower and New York's office-building lobbies of the 1950s.) As a frequent contributor to the "Arts in Review" page in the Personal Journal section. He has interviewed George Martin,Burt Bacharach,Dave Clark,Al Green,Dave Brubeck,Ginger Baker,Helen Shapiro,Hal Blaine,Graham Nash,Ron Isley,Wanda Jackson,Dr. John,B.B. King,Fats Domino,Jerry Lee Lewis among others.
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