Adam Wakeman

Adam Wakeman (born 11 March 1974) is an English musician, known as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne's band; he also played keyboards and guitar off-stage for Black Sabbath. Wakeman has also worked with Annie Lennox, Travis, the Company of Snakes, Strawbs, Will Young, Victoria Beckham, Atomic Kitten, Martin Barre, Uriah Heep and Deep Purple. He created the fictional character Milton Keanes, a disillusioned jazz pianist from the 1960s and released several YouTube mockumentaries and albums under the name Jazz Sabbath, with the album Volume 2 reaching number 6 on the Billboard Jazz Chart in 2022.

Wakeman has often collaborated with his father, Rick Wakeman, and has released albums with him. He has also released solo albums Soliloquy, 100 Years Overtime, Real World Trilogy and Neurasthenia. In 2006, he created his own band, Headspace, with Damian Wilson.

Biography Wakeman was born into a musical family as the younger brother of Oliver Wakeman and the son of long-term Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman. He started playing classical piano at the age of eight. He cites Dr. John, Monty Alexander, Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater and Mark Kelly of Marillion as influences, with the solo from Marillion's "Incommunicado" one of the first he learned to play as a child. By the age of seventeen he had obtained grade eight from the ABRSM and had recorded the first album with his father. Father and son toured extensively, the two of them sitting at grand pianos to full scale rock performances with orchestra and choir. At the age of 24, Adam won the Keyboard Magazine Best New Talent award and promptly started a session career of his own in London. the DVD from the Gran Rex, Argentina as well as 2009's Six Wives of Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace. The 2010 release, Scream, from Ozzy Osbourne featured five songs co-written by Adam Wakeman, although an error in the liner notes means the track "I Want It More" was wrongly credited to only Osbourne and Kevin Churko.

With over 200 pieces of music composed for several production music libraries, Wakeman started www.theperfectmusiclibrary in 2010 representing and creating music for film, television and media. As director of the company, he has placed music across most major TV networks including the BBC, ITV and Sky.

On 2 July 2011, Wakeman started his own radio show on TotalRock radio in London along with fellow members of Headspace, where he (once a month, every first Saturday) playing "the best rock, metal and prog over the last 30 years".

In February 2020, Wakeman released an album under the moniker Jazz Sabbath, playing songs by Black Sabbath in a jazz style. He is credited as "Milton Keanes".

Adam stepped in to cover for Don Airey with Deep Purple in Bangalore, India December 19th 2023 after Don fell ill a week before. In 2025, he took part in Back to the Beginning.

Discography

Solo 1993: Soliloquy 1994: 100 Years Overtime 1997: Real World Trilogy 2003: Neurasthenia 2021: A Handful of Memories

Wakeman with Wakeman 1992: Wakeman With Wakeman – AKA Lure of the Wild 1993: No Expense Spared 1994: The Official Bootleg 1994: Wakeman with Wakeman Live

Rick Wakeman and Adam Wakeman 1994: Romance of the Victorian Age 1996: Vignettes 1996: Tapestries

Damian Wilson and Adam Wakeman Weir Keeper's Tale (2016) The Sun Will Dance In Its Twilight Hour (2018) Stripped (2019) Can We Leave The Light On Longer? (2024)

Jazz Sabbath Jazz Sabbath (2020, as Milton Keanes) Jazz Sabbath Vol. 2 (2022, as Milton Keanes) Jazz Sabbath The 1968 Tapes (2024, as Milton Keanes)

Collaborations 1994: Light Up The Sky – Rick Wakeman 2001: The Revealing Songs of Yes – Various Artists 2001: Out of the Blue – Rick Wakeman and the English Rock Ensemble 2005: Live at the Orange – Jeronimo Road 2009: The Six Wives of Henry VIII Live at Hampton Court Palace – Rick Wakeman 2010: Scream – Ozzy Osbourne 2012: I Am Anonymous – Headspace 2013: Snakecharmer – Snakecharmer 2016: The End - Black Sabbath - keyboards (tracks 5–8) 2016: All That You Fear Is Gone – Headspace 2017: Second Skin – Snakecharmer 2017: The End: Live in Birmingham – Black Sabbath 2023: Live at the London Palladium 2023 – Rick Wakeman and the English Rock Ensemble