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Jeff Tamarkin
For nearly five decades, Jeff Tamarkin has been one of the most respected and prolific music journalists in the country. For fifteen years he was editor of Goldmine, the bible of r...показать большеFor nearly five decades, Jeff Tamarkin has been one of the most respected and prolific music journalists in the country. For fifteen years he was editor of Goldmine, the bible of record/CD collectors. Prior to that, he served as the first editor of CMJ and as editor of Relix magazine. He was also the first editor of Grateful Dead Comix and associate editor of JazzTimes magazine. He has written for dozens of publications, including Billboard, Newsweek, Playbill, Creem, Mojo, Newsday, New York Daily News, and others, and has contributed to the Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music and the All-Music Guide. He has written the liner notes for more than eighty CDs, including most of the Jefferson Airplane albums and those of related bands, as well as albums by the Beach Boys, Merle Haggard, J. Geils Band, Dean Martin, and others. Jeff has also served on the Nominating Committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and as a consultant to the Grammys and has written for the Library of Congress. As a consultant to the Music Club CD label, he assisted in releasing over 180 reissues and compilations, in styles ranging from jazz to country to pop. Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane (Atria Books) was his first book. He is also the coauthor of Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc., by Howard Kaylan, and the author of Carlos Santana: Love, Devotion, Surrender: The Illustrated Story of His Music Journey. He is currently the Editor of BestClassicBands.com, a classic rock website. He lives in Hoboken, NJ, with his wife, the novelist and book critic Caroline Leavitt. показать меньше