Arnaud Merlin (born 1963) is a French jazz critic, music journalist and radio producer who has worked mainly for France Musique in recent years.
He works as a music journalist since 1985, mainly for magazines like Jazz Hot, Jazzman and Le Monde de la musique.
[2] He was a member of the Artistic Committee of the Anglo-French Fund for Contemporary Music “Diaphonique”[3] and the Commission Jazz & Blues.
[4] In 2012, he was awarded the Irmaward in the Jazz category of the Centre d’information et de ressources pour les musiques actuelles [fr].
“The Epic of Jazz”), which are two heavily illustrated pocket books published in the collection “Découvertes Gallimard”, in 1991.