Gerald "Jezz" Woodroffe (born 28 October 1951, in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

) is an English keyboardist. He was a member of

ska punk Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music. Ska punk tends to feature brass instruments, especially Horn (instrument), horns such as trumpets, trombones and woodwind instruments like saxophones ...

chart-pop act, Belle Stars, Purusha, Sally Hope and Geezer Butler Band, as well as playing live for

Black Sabbath Black Sabbath are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward (musician), Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler, and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. After adopting the Black Sabbath name in 1969 (the band ...

in the late 1970s. He played on the ''

Technical Ecstasy ''Technical Ecstasy'' is the seventh studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, produced by guitarist Tony Iommi and released in October 1976 by Vertigo Records. The album received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success ...

'' album by

. Although he is not given songwriting credit on the album, “He was present when Tony wrote material for “Technical Ecstasy, allowing Tony to try out ideas while Jezz supplied chords as accompaniment.” Keyboards play a strong part in the style and texture of this album. He performed live with the band on the tours for the albums ''

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'' and ''Technical Ecstasy''. Woodroffe also performed and recorded with

Robert Plant Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin from its founding in 1968 until their breakup in 1980. Since then, he has had a successful solo ca ...

and

Phil Collins Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band Genesis (band), Genesis and had a successful solo career, ac ...

on the album ''

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'', Plant's debut solo album. He was also the keyboard player on the following two albums from Plant, "The Principle Of Moments" and "Shaken 'n' Stirred". In the early 1990s, Woodroffe composed the music to two games by Horror Soft; '' Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus'' (with Philip Nixon), and '' Waxworks''. In the 1970s, he was the owner of "Woodroffes" music store in

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1951 births English keyboardists English video game composers Living people Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands {{songwriter-stub