Big Life - Softcover

‘Jazz is formidable and legendary. I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t have a conflicting opinion of who he is and half of them have never actually met him. His stories have stories. He’s totally rock n roll, but a bit jazz’ --Boy George

‘I don’t read anything I figure in, but the Jazz I know is a spiritual, stoical warrior who is a fiercely loyal ally and someone I’m glad to call a friend’ --Richard Ashcroft

‘Jazz Summers is a wizard. Whether he is in service to the powers of Light or Darkness usually depends on what side of his argument you’re on. Rest assured that if you are on his team, he will use every force at his disposal to create magic for you’ --Ana Matronic, Scissor Sisters

‘I was warned about Jazz Summers. To the point where I nearly didn’t bother making the meeting. It was the last of many meetings of a very long Friday. I’m glad I did make it, though. An hour in his time is an hour well spent. You always walk away feeling like anything is possible. What more can you ask of anybody?’ --Damon Gough AKA Badly Drawn Boy

‘When Jazz has a belief, especially with an artist he’s representing, no one will get in the way and no one will deter him. He sticks to his guns and fights his corner and he really believes in everything he does’ --Lisa Stansfield

‘Jazz is old skool business. Taking chances, up for a challenge. Passionate and loyal – he’s an adventurer’ --Jazzie B OBE, Soul II Soul

‘Jazz Summers is a fucking lion. If you’re part of his pride he will fight to the death for you. He can make grown men cry and shit themselves. He is, though, essentially a kind man with a big heart with a deep capacity for love. Just don’t piss him off’ --Gary Lightbody, Snow Patrol

‘Eye-opening’ Peter Robinson, Guardian

'Superb' --Mail on Sunday

'Extraordinary...a tremendous, compelling read' --Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

'As you'd hope from the autobiography of one of the music industry's most colourful characters, the numbers are big, the names are bigger and the adventures are monstrous...Big Life is terrifying and inspiring' --NME

Jazz Summers is a soldier who became a musician who became one of the music industry's most successful managers. Jazz has managed Wham!, Lisa Stansfield, Yazz, Soul ll Soul, the Verve, Badly Drawn Boy, Snow Patrol, Klaxons, La Roux, Scissor Sisters and London Grammar, among many others. His artists have sold over sixty million albums and seventy-two million singles around the world, including over one hundred Top 40 hits in the past thirty years. In 2003, Jazz was awarded the prestigious Peter Grant Award and, in 2007, the Strat Award at the Music Week Awards. He remains one of the most important names in music management.