Adam Michael Sieff (born April 1954) is a British music consultant and former head of jazz for the UK and Europe for Sony Music. He was head of sales and marketing for

Gearbox Records Gearbox Records Ltd. is an independent music studio and record label founded in 2009 and based in London and Tokyo. Gearbox emphasizes vinyl records. They started out by releasing previously unreleased archival jazz recordings from their reel-to-r ...

which specialises in the release of previously unheard jazz recordings. As of April 2017 he is creative consultant for Margate Jazz. He is the son of Teddy Sieff, the Marks and Spencer heir.

Early life

Adam Sieff was born in April 1954 to Joseph "Teddy" Sieff, president of the retailers

Marks and Spencer Marks and Spencer Group plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks's or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer with headquarters in Paddington, London that specialises in selling clothing, beauty, home ...

, and his wife Lois Sieff. He was educated at

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(1967–71) where his contemporaries included the journalist

Tom Utley Thomas Dermot Utley (born 29 November 1952) is a British journalist who writes for the '' Daily Mail''. Life and career Utley is the son of the journalist T. E. ('Peter') Utley and Brigid Viola Mary (1927–2012), daughter of Dermot Morrah, a j ...

and

Michael Zilkha Michael Zilkha (born 1954) is a British-born entrepreneur, the co-founder of ZE Records. Early life He was born in 1954, the son of Selim Zilkha, the founder of Mothercare, one of the UK's largest retail chains (and the grandson of Khedouri Zil ...

, the co-founder of

ZE Records ZE Records was originally a New York-based record label, started in 1978 in music, 1978 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban. It was reestablished by Esteban in 2003. History Michael Zilkha (b. 1954) is a British-born Oxford University, Oxford ...

. While at Westminster he was the lead guitarist in a band known as Jaded that was managed by the future British prime minister

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Career

Sieff was a freelance musician and producer until 1991 and then jazz manager at Tower Records until February 1995. He joined

Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...

in March 1995 as head of jazz and became director of jazz for the United Kingdom and Europe in 2002 until he left them in February 2005. He was then with SellaBand from 2006 to 2010 and Tomorrow's Warriors from 2010 to 2012. He was a non-executive director of Jazz FM. In 2011, he won the "Unsung Hero" Award at the

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. In November 2012, he joined

where he was head of sales and marketing until January 2017 since when he has been a consultant for them. The company specialises in the release on vinyl of audiophile editions of previously unheard jazz recordings.FEATURE: Gearbox Records release five selected albums on CD (Mini LP Replica CD Series).
''London Jazz News'', 25 October 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2018. Since April 2017 he has been creative consultant for Margate Jazz.

References

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British Jews People educated at Westminster School, London 1954 births 20th-century British musicians