Marc Myers Explained

Marc Myers
Birth Date:4 September 1956
Birth Place:New York City
Nationality:American
Known For:Wall Street Journal music and arts contributor, founder of JazzWax blog

Marc Myers (born September 4, 1956) is an American journalist, author of five books and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, where he writes on music, the arts and celebrities. In 2007, he founded JazzWax, a leading daily jazz blog[1] that has won three Jazz Journalists Association "Blog of the Year" awards.[2]

Early life

Myers was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York City and Cortlandt Manor, New York. He studied journalism at Northeastern University (undergraduate)[3] and U.S. history at Columbia University (graduate).[4]

Career

New York Times

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.[5] 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 he was editor of Bottom Line/Personal in the 1990s.[6] In February 1999, his essay on President Bill Clinton's luck was published by The New York Times Op-Ed page.[7]

Wall Street Journal

Since June 2010, Myers has written for The Wall Street Journal as a contributor on music and the arts, specifically rock, soul and jazz. He has interviewed more than 1,000 leading artists, musicians and celebrities for the paper. He writes the weekly "House Call" column for the Mansion section and a monthly column for the Arts section on albums that changed music history. He has also written for the Weekend Review and Off Duty sections of the paper.

JazzWax

Since JazzWaxs launch in August 2007, Myers has posted six days a week and has conducted more than 300 multi-part interviews with jazz legends.[8] He also posts commentary on historic and contemporary jazz, rock and pop recordings, winning three Jazz Journalists Association awards.

Personal life

His mother, Bernice Myers, was a children's book artist and illustrator who died in 2021.[9] His father was Lou Myers, a commercial illustrator, cartoonist and writer who died in 2005.[10] He is married to Alyse Myers, author of Who Do You Think You Are? A Memoir (Simon & Schuster).[11] [12]

Liner notes

Myers has written liner notes for the following albums:

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Top 25 Jazz blogs. October 25, 2011. Invesp.
  2. Web site: 2012 JJA Jazz Awards Winners. June 20, 2011. JJA.
  3. Web site: Sparking Conversations: Alumnus Marc Myers, Music Journalist & Historian, Offers New Perspectives on Music Icons. 2021-08-03. Northeastern CAMD. en-US.
  4. Web site: Marc Myers. 2021-08-03. marcmyers.typepad.com.
  5. News: New York Times. Myers, Marc. October 24, 2011. Robeson-Concert protests recalled 30 years later. September 2, 1979.
  6. Web site: marcmyers.com . October 24, 2011. About Marc Myers LLC.
  7. News: Myers. Marc. Lucky Charms. The New York Times. 12 August 2017. 10 February 1999.
  8. News: 1959 saw jazz take giant steps in pop culture. USA Today. 30 June 2009. Shriver, Jerry.
  9. Web site: BERNICE MYERS Obituary (2021) New York Times. 2021-08-03. Legacy.com.
  10. News: Lou Myers, Cartoonist With a Satiric Wit, Dies at 90. The New York Times. Heller, Steven. November 21, 2005. September 18, 2014.
  11. News: The New York Times. Myers, Alyse. September 26, 2008. Her Hard-Knock Life.
  12. Web site: Powerful women: It takes a mother. Sellers, Patricia. July 8, 2008. October 16, 2011. fortune.cnn.com.
  13. Web site: ella in japan. October 25, 2011. ellafitzgeraldfoundation.org.

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