Gordon "Jazz" Summers (15 March 1944 – 14 August 2015[1]) was a British music manager.
and is credited with having enabled them to break into the United States market in 1985 and to go on to become the first western pop group to tour China.
[4] In 1986, he and Tim Parry founded Big Life, a music management company.
[4] Summers was married four times; his third wife was the pop singer Yazz, whom he also managed.
After his death, tributes were made on Twitter by Tim Burgess, The Futureheads, Boy George and Zane Lowe[7]