Carlo Wolff

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Carlo Wolff is a prolific freelance journalist who writes for publications including Goldmine, Billboard.com, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Sun Newspapers,[The Plain Dealer] and Cleveland Scene. He specializes in music criticism, book reviews and feature articles about popular culture, travel, and business. He also specializes in reviewing graphic novels for the Globe (http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/07/08/growing_panes/). By day, he is Features Editor of LH-Lodging Hospitality magazine (ww.lhonline.com), a Penton Media trade publication.

Wolff has been involved in three books, including The Encyclopedia of Record Producers, a 1999 Billboard publication instigated by Eric Olsen, founder of www.blogcritics.com, a critical portal to which Wolff occasionally contributes. Wolff's most recent book, Cleveland Rock and Roll Memories, was published in November 2006 by Gray and Company, Publishers (www.grayco.com).

In 2003, Wolff made critical waves with his take on Mitch Albom's "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." Commissioned by The Detroit Free Press, where Albom is a star columnist, it was suppressed by that newspaper and subsequently published in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and numerous other mainstream and alternative newspapers. Wolff's Albom review is reprinted in "Killed," a compilation of censored journalism (http://www.nationbooks.org/book/75/Killed), put together by David Wallis, the man behind Featurewell (www.featurewell.com), a journalism portal to which Wolff also occasionally contributes. The review also is archived at www.poynter.org, an interpretive journalism portal (http://www.poynter.org/dg.lts/id.57/aid.49469/column.htm).

In addition to his literary criticism, Wolff has chronicled and interpreted jazz for decades, including a long stint as the key jazz critic for the Plain Dealer (http://www.clevelandjazz.org/images/Media/CJO-Wheeler_review_CarloWolff_PD_01-31-05.pdf).

He is also vice-president of the board of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra (www.clevelandjazz.org) and has written liner notes and promotional material for recording companies including Fantasy, Prestige and Milestone (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19911), Sony/Columbia, Warner Brothers and Blue Note. Wolff lives in South Euclid, Ohio.