Nationality American Role Journalist | Name Marc Myers | |
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Born September 4, 1956 (age 67) ( 1956-09-04 ) Occupation Journalist
author
historian Known for Wall Street Journal music and arts contributor, founder of JazzWax blog Books Why Jazz Happened, How To Make Luck: Seven Secrets Lucky People Use To Succeed | ||
Education Northeastern University | ||
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Marc Myers (born September 4, 1956) 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.
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- Patricia gucci marc myers in the name of gucci
- Early life
- New York Times
- Wall Street Journal
- JazzWax
- Personal life
- Books
- References
Early life
Myers was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York City and Westchester County in New York. According to his website, he studied journalism at Northeastern University (undergraduate) and U.S. history at Columbia University (graduate).
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. 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.
Wall Street Journal
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. His columns included the weekly "House Call" for the Mansion section, the weekly "Playlist" column for the Review section, and the "Anatomy of a Song" column for the Arena section, which features interviews with composers and musicians.
He has also written about 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.
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, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
JazzWax
Since JazzWax's launch in August 2007, Myers has posted daily, six days a week and has conducted more than 300 multi-part interviews with notable jazz, rock and R&B musicians and has posted commentary on rare and contemporary jazz recordings.
Personal life
His mother, Bernice Myers, is a children's book artist and illustrator. His father, Lou Myers, a commercial illustrator, cartoonist and writer, died in 2005. He is married to Alyse Myers, author of Who Do You Think You Are? A Memoir (Simon & Schuster)