Jon Pareles

Jon Pareles (born 1953^[1] ) is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of The New York Times .^[2]

Pareles was born in Connecticut.^[1] He played jazz flute and piano, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in music. He began working as a music critic in 1977.^[3]

In the 1970s, he was an associate editor of Crawdaddy! , where he published his first works (outside school publications);^[4] and in the 1980s, an associate editor at Rolling Stone and the music editor at The Village Voice . He started contributing to The Times in 1982.^[3] He reviews popular music in the arts section of The Times.^[4]

• Pareles, Jon; Romanowski, Patricia, eds. (1983). The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll . London: Rolling Stone. ISBN 978-0-718-12400-7.

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