Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

male
Stephen Thomas Erlewine is senior editor for All Music Guide. He is the author of thousands of artist biographies and record reviews, as well as a...
Ira Gitler

Ira Gitler

male, 80 years old
Jazz historian Ira Gitler was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 18, 1928. He grew up listening to Swing bands in the late 1930s and 1940s...
Lenny Kaye

Lenny Kaye

male
Guitarist, composer and writer Lenny Kaye was a member of the Patti Smith Group and has been Smith's most frequent collaborator. He wrote the liner...
Rob Bowman

Rob Bowman

male
Rob Bowman is a Professor in Ethnomusicology. Dr. Bowman currently serves as Director of York University's Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology &...
Loren Schoenberg

Loren Schoenberg

male
Loren Schoenberg (born July 23, 1958 in Fair Lawn, New Jersey) is a jazz historian, writer of liner notes, and tenor saxophonist. He began playing...
Stanley Dance

Stanley Dance

male, deceased (1999)
Stanley Dance (born September 15, 1910 in Braintree, Essex; died February 23, 1999 in San Diego, California) was a noted writer and biographer in...
Jeff Tamarkin

Jeff Tamarkin

male, 57 years old
Jeff Tamarkin (born October 15 1952, Brooklyn) is an editor, author and historian specializing in music and popular culture. For 15 years he was...
Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout

male, 53 years old
Terry Teachout (born 1956, Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is a critic, biographer and blogger. He is the drama critic of "The Wall Street Journal", the...

James Isaacs

male
James Isaacs is a music journalist and former disk jockey. In the late 1970s and the 1980s, when WBUR, Boston University's radio station broadcast...
Billy James

Billy James

male
Billy James is a publicist and talent scout; best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s discovering and developing musical talent for record...