Arnaud Merlin

Arnaud Merlin (born 1963) is a French jazz critic, music journalist and radio producer who has worked mainly for France Musique in recent years.

Career Arnaud Merlin studied music at the Paris-Sorbonne University and Conservatoire de Paris, where he was awarded the History of Music and Aesthetics Prizes. He works as a music journalist since 1985, mainly for magazines like Jazz Hot, Jazzman and Le Monde de la musique.

From 1992 to 2004, he was a member of the Académie Charles-Cros and Académie du Jazz, editorial secretary of Cité Musiques (the newspaper of Cité de la Musique). He was a member of the Artistic Committee of the Anglo-French Fund for Contemporary Music “Diaphonique” and the Commission Jazz & Blues. In 2012, he was awarded the Irmaward in the Jazz category of the . Merlin is also the director of and Orchestre National de Jazz and president of the Centre régional du Jazz in Burgundy.

With Franck Bergerot, he co-authored a two-volume miniseries about jazz music entitled (lit. “The Epic of Jazz”), which are two heavily illustrated pocket books published in the collection “Découvertes Gallimard” in 1991. The second volume has been translated into English, Italian, Russian and Korean.

Publications With Franck Bergerot, Du blues au bop : L’épopée du jazz – Volume I, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 114), série Arts. Éditions Gallimard, 1991 With Franck Bergerot, L’épopée du jazz 2/ Au-delà du bop, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 115), série Arts. Éditions Gallimard, 1991 The Story of Jazz: Bop and Beyond, ‘New Horizons’ series, Thames & Hudson, 1993 (UK edition) The Story of Jazz: Bop and Beyond, “Abrams Discoveries” series. Harry N. Abrams, 1993 (U.S. edition)