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Zoot Money

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George Bruno "Zoot" Money (born 17 July 1942, in Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the 2001 Census, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is the largest town on the south coast and the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town has been Dorchester since at least 1305, situated in the south of the county at . Between its extreme points Dorset measures from east to west and north to south, and has an area of...

) is a vocalist
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...

, keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

, bandleader
Bandleader
A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....

 and actor
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 best known for his playing of the Hammond Organ
Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard...

 and the Big Roll Band. Inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame...

 and Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He brought a soulful sound to country music and pop standards through his Modern Sounds recordings, as well as a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the "definitive version of...

 he was drawn to Rock and Roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States after World War II in the late 1940s, from a combination of the rhythms of the blues, from the African American culture, and from America's country music and gospel music scenes...

 music and soon became a leading light in the vibrant music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 scene of Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the 2001 Census, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is the largest town on the south coast and the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

, during the 1960s.

In 1961 Zoot Money formed the first incarnation of the Big Roll band
Band (music)
In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band* Dansband* Fife and drum...

 with a line-up of Money lead vocals, Roger Collis lead guitar
Lead guitar
A lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays...

 (born Roger Alan Collis, 7 June 1941, in Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the 2001 Census, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is the largest town on the south coast and the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town has been Dorchester since at least 1305, situated in the south of the county at . Between its extreme points Dorset measures from east to west and north to south, and has an area of...

), Al Kirtley piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 (born Edward Alan Kirtley, 20 December 1942, in Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the 2001 Census, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is the largest town on the south coast and the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town has been Dorchester since at least 1305, situated in the south of the county at . Between its extreme points Dorset measures from east to west and north to south, and has an area of...

), Mike "Monty" Montgomery on bass
Bass guitar
The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....

 and Johnny Hammond on drums. The second line-up from 1962 was Pete Brookes on drums (born Peter Brookes, 24 February 1941, in Oakhampton, Devon
Devon
Devon is a large county in England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, although that is an unofficial name, rarely used inside of the county itself and often indicating a traditional or historical context. The county shares borders with Cornwall to the west and Dorset and Somerset to...

), Johnny King on bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the upright bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The name, "double bass," derives from the early use of the instrument to double—an octave lower where possible—the bass part written...

 and Kevin Drake on tenor sax.

The Big Roll band played soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....

 and R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s...

 developing their music to move with musical trends, as the blues and R&B movement moved into the Swinging Sixties.
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George Bruno "Zoot" Money (born 17 July 1942, in Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the 2001 Census, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is the largest town on the south coast and the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town has been Dorchester since at least 1305, situated in the south of the county at . Between its extreme points Dorset measures from east to west and north to south, and has an area of...

) is a vocalist
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...

, keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

, bandleader
Bandleader
A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....

 and actor
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 best known for his playing of the Hammond Organ
Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard...

 and the Big Roll Band. Inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame...

 and Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He brought a soulful sound to country music and pop standards through his Modern Sounds recordings, as well as a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the "definitive version of...

 he was drawn to Rock and Roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States after World War II in the late 1940s, from a combination of the rhythms of the blues, from the African American culture, and from America's country music and gospel music scenes...

 music and soon became a leading light in the vibrant music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 scene of Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the 2001 Census, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is the largest town on the south coast and the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

, during the 1960s.

The Big Roll Band and The Flamingo Club, London


In 1961 Zoot Money formed the first incarnation of the Big Roll band
Band (music)
In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band* Dansband* Fife and drum...

 with a line-up of Money lead vocals, Roger Collis lead guitar
Lead guitar
A lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays...

 (born Roger Alan Collis, 7 June 1941, in Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the 2001 Census, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is the largest town on the south coast and the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town has been Dorchester since at least 1305, situated in the south of the county at . Between its extreme points Dorset measures from east to west and north to south, and has an area of...

), Al Kirtley piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 (born Edward Alan Kirtley, 20 December 1942, in Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth, England. The town has a population of 163,444 according to the 2001 Census, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is the largest town on the south coast and the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town has been Dorchester since at least 1305, situated in the south of the county at . Between its extreme points Dorset measures from east to west and north to south, and has an area of...

), Mike "Monty" Montgomery on bass
Bass guitar
The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....

 and Johnny Hammond on drums. The second line-up from 1962 was Pete Brookes on drums (born Peter Brookes, 24 February 1941, in Oakhampton, Devon
Devon
Devon is a large county in England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, although that is an unofficial name, rarely used inside of the county itself and often indicating a traditional or historical context. The county shares borders with Cornwall to the west and Dorset and Somerset to...

), Johnny King on bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the upright bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The name, "double bass," derives from the early use of the instrument to double—an octave lower where possible—the bass part written...

 and Kevin Drake on tenor sax.

The Big Roll band played soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....

 and R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s...

 developing their music to move with musical trends, as the blues and R&B movement moved into the Swinging Sixties. Their act included the flamboyant antics of frontman Money and they became assoiciated with the burgeoning Soho scene, soon becoming popular with the UK's
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

 movers and shakers.

During February 1964 the line-up settled with Zoot Money on piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 and Hammond organ
Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard...

 lead guitarist Andy Summers
Andy Summers
Andy Summers is an English guitarist and composer best known for his work in The Police and Eric Burdon & The Animals.-Early life:...

, who later became a member of The Police
The Police
The Police were an English rock trio, from London, England, formed originally in 1977. The trio consisted of Gordon Sumner, CBE , widely known by his stage name of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland...

, sax player Nick Newall and drummer Colin Allen
Colin Allen
Colin Allen Colin Allen Colin Allen (born May 1938, Bournemouth, Dorset (now in Hampshire, England) is a drummer and songwriter.- History :Allen took up drums at the age of 18, playing initially with local jazz musician in Dorset...

. Nurturing a passion for Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He brought a soulful sound to country music and pop standards through his Modern Sounds recordings, as well as a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the "definitive version of...

 and the Hammond organ
Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard...

 Money moved to London with this line up. During the same year The Big Roll Band started playing regularly at The Flamingo in Soho London. The band soon became the headline act on a permanent basis until Money was spotted by Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner , born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner, was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues"...

 and joined Korner's Blues Incorporated
Blues Incorporated
Blues Incorporated were a British R&B band in the early 1960s, led by Alexis Korner, featuring at various times such musicians as Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts, Terry Cox, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Danny Thompson, Graham Bond, Cyril Davies, Malcolm Cecil and Dick Heckstall-Smith...

.

Bassist Boz Burrell
Boz Burrell
Boz Burrell was a bass guitarist and singer known for his involvement in bands such as King Crimson and Bad Company....

 played with the band from 2003 to 2005. In 2008 the line up was Zoot Money, bassist Paul McCallum, drummer Steve Laffy, sax player Gary Foote and guitarist Ronnie Johnson. The Big Roll still enjoy a monthly residency at The Bull's Head
The Bull's Head
The Bull's Head, Barnes, often referred to as "The Bull", is a London jazz club that was one of the first and most important jazz venues in Britain...

 in Barnes London and tour on a regular basis.

Dantalian's Chariot and Eric Burdon's New Animals


In July 1967 The Big Roll Band became Dantalian's
Dantalion
In demonology, Dantalion is a powerful Great Duke of Hell, with thirty-six legions of demons under his command; a Jinn, he is the 71st of 72 spirits of Solomon. He teaches all arts and sciences, and also declares the secret counsel of anyone, given that he knows the thoughts of all people and can...

 Chariot
and in spite of a lack of chart
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....

 success the band found themselves at the heart of a new counter culture, sharing concert line-ups with bands such as Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band who, in the late 1960s, earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and in the 1970s, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd's work is marked by philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art,...

, Soft Machine
Soft Machine
Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the so-called "Canterbury scene," and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre....

 and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a psychedelic rock album by Arthur Brown and his band Crazy World of Arthur Brown, released in 1968 . Considered a classic of the late-1960s psychedelic scene, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown includes covers of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and James Brown...

. A single Madman Running Through The Fields was released in 1967, but it was thirty years later in 1997 when their only album Chariot Rising was eventually released.

During 1968 a brief stint in USA with Eric Burdon's New Animals
The Animals
The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", the...

 followed and Money decided to stay in USA for a while. At this point he began picking up acting
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 roles, starting a parallel career which has continued ever since, with character appearances in many high profile film
Film
Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....

 and TV
Television
Television is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...

 dramas.

MPL and The Majik Mijits


Money signed to Paul McCartney's
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE , is an English singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record and film producer, painter, and animal rights and peace activist. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings, McCartney is the most successful songwriter in the history of popular music...

 record label MPL Communications
MPL Communications
MPL Communications is the holding company for the business interests of Sir Paul McCartney. In addition to handling McCartney's post-Beatles work, MPL is also one of the world's largest privately owned music publishers through its acquisition of numerous other publishing companies.MPL, which stands...

 in 1980 and recorded Mr. Money produced
Record producer
In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...

 by Jim Diamond
Jim Diamond (Scottish musician)
Jim Diamond is a Scottish singer-songwriter. Diamond is best known for his three Top 5 hits. The first was "I Won't Let You Down" , as the lead singer in the trio Ph.D., with Tony Hymas and Simon Phillips. His solo performance, "I Should Have Known Better", was a United Kingdom number one in 1984...

. In 1981 Steve Marriott
Steve Marriott
Stephen Peter Marriott , popularly known as Steve Marriott, was a successful and versatile English singer-songwriter, guitarist and musician....

 and Ronnie Lane
Ronnie Lane
Ronald Frederick "Ronnie" Lane was an English singer, songwriter and bass player best known for his membership in two prominent English rock bands, the Small Faces and Faces .-Early life:Ronnie Lane was born in the East End of London...

 formed a band to include a line up of, bass player Jim Leverton, drummer Dave Hynes, Zoot Money and sax player Mel Collins
Mel Collins
Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and prominent session musician....

 to record an album called The Majik Mijits. The album features songs by Lane and Marriott but due to Lane's Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis is an idiopathic disease of suspected autoimmune cause, in which the body's immune response attacks a person's central nervous system , leading to demyelination. Disease onset usually occurs in young adults, and it is more common in females...

 they were unable to tour and promote the album. The album was released nineteen years later in 2000.
"Steve and Ronnie went to America to see Clive Davis of Arista Records
Arista Records
Arista Records is an American record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...

. They played him the tape. Clive Davis was tapping his foot and tapping his very expensive pen on his very expensive desk. He said "Yeah, that’s great man". Steve said "So you like the tape, Clive". Steve then stopped the tape, ejected it and said "Well you cant have it!" The story that Steve told me was that it would have meant touring and Ronnie just wasn’t up to it. It would have meant pretty much carrying him everywhere, no tour, no album. That’s why the Mijits never came out at that point in time. Its been gathering dust for ages" - Jim Leverton

Alan Price and the Electric Blues Company


In 1994 Money appeared with Alan Price
Alan Price
Alan Price is a British musician, best known as the original keyboardist for the English band The Animals and his solo work....

 and The Electric Blues Company alongside vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench
Bobby Tench
Robert Tench , also known as Bob Tench, Bobby Tench and Bobby Gass, is a British vocalist and guitarist. He is best known for working with bands and artists such as Jeff Beck, Freddie King, Van Morrison, Hummingbird, Humble Pie and Streetwalkers.At the start of his career he performed and recorded...

, bassist Peter Grant and drummer Martin Wild, on A Gigster's Life for Me. He continues to appear with Price at live appearances in UK.

Ruby Turner, Woodstock Taylor and Humble Pie


Money produced Ruby Turner
Ruby Turner
Ruby Turner is a British soul singer, songwriter and actress. In a career spanning a quarter of a century, Turner has had hit albums and singles on both sides of the Atlantic, and provided backing vocals for major popular music stars...

's Call Me By My Name (1998) and Woodstock Taylor and The Aliens Road Movie(2002)also contributing keyboards to both albums. In 2002 he also recorded tracks with Humble Pie
Humble Pie (band)
Humble Pie was a rock, hard rock, and rhythm and blues band from England and were one of the first supergroups from the 1970s, finding success in America and UK. They are best remembered for their dynamic live concert performances and songs such as "30 Days in the Hole", "I Don't Need No Doctor",...

 for the album Back on Track
Back on Track (Humble Pie album)
Back on Track is the thirteenth studio album by Humble Pie. Jerry Shirley re-formed Humble Pie in 2001 with a line up including their original bassist Greg Ridley, former Humble Pie guitarist and vocalist Bobby Tench, and rhythm guitarist Dave "Bucket" Colwell who had played with Bad Company and...

 released by Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records is a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world. It was also the world's largest independent owners of...

.

Something in the air


In 2005 Zoot joined Pete Goodall of Thunderclap Newman
Thunderclap Newman
Thunderclap Newman was a late 1960s One-hit wonder band from the UK. Their single, "Something in the Air", a 1969 UK Number One hit, remains in demand for television commercials, film soundtracks, and compilations.-Career:...

 to record a CD of new songs by Goodall and Pete Brown
Pete Brown
Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet, lyricist and musical producer.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores...

. In 2004 they had re-recorded the UK hit single
Hit single
A hit single is a recorded track or single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio airplay and/or significant...

 Something In The Air
Something In The Air (song)
"Something in the Air" is a song recorded by Thunderclap Newman. It was a UK #1 single for three weeks in July 1969. The song was later covered by The Mandrake Memorial in 1970, Labelle in 1973, Fish and Promised Land in 1991, The Lightning Seeds in 1992, Tom Petty in 1993, Eurythmics in 1999, The...

 originally written by Speedy Keen, which featured the last recorded performance by sax player Dick Heckstall-Smith
Dick Heckstall-Smith
Dick Heckstall-Smith was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. He played with some of the most important English blues-rock and jazz-rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s.- Early Years :...

 before he died in December 2004. The band went on to tour the UK under the name Good Money.

Other associations


In early 2006 Money and drummer Colin Allen
Colin Allen
Colin Allen Colin Allen Colin Allen (born May 1938, Bournemouth, Dorset (now in Hampshire, England) is a drummer and songwriter.- History :Allen took up drums at the age of 18, playing initially with local jazz musician in Dorset...

 joined vocalist Maggie Bell
Maggie Bell
Maggie Bell is a Scottish rock and blues-rock singer, regarded by some as Britain's answer to Janis Joplin.-Career:...

, bassist Colin Hodgkinson
Colin Hodgkinson
Colin Hodgkinson is a British rock, jazz and blues bassist, who has been active since the 1960s.-Career:...

 and guitarist Miller Anderson
Miller Anderson (musician)
Miller Anderson, born on April 12, 1945, in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, is a UK-based blues guitarist and singer.Apart from pursuing his own solo career he was a member of the Keef Hartley Band which performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969....

 to formed The British Blues Quintet
The British Blues Quintet
The British Blues Quintet is a British band, formed in London in 2006 by five veteran UK blues musicians. Its members are Zoot Money , Colin Allen , Maggie Bell , Colin Hodgkinson and Miller Anderson . They recorded a live album in 2007 Live In Glasgow...

.

Money has also featured with poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

 and rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music....

 band Grimms
Grimms
Grimms was an English pub rock, skit and poetry group, originally formed as a merger of The Scaffold, the Bonzo Dog Band, and the Liverpool Scene for two concerts in 1971 at the suggestion of John Gorman...

, Ellis, Centipede
Centipede (band)
Centipede were an English jazz/progressive rock/Canterbury sound big band with more than 50 members, organized and led by the British free jazz pianist Keith Tippett...

, Kevin Coyne
Kevin Coyne
Kevin Coyne was a musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems. The former "anti-star " was born on 27 January 1944 in Derby, UK, and died in his adopted home of Nuremberg, Germany, on 2 December 2004....

, Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers is an English songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...

, Rocket 88
Rocket 88 (band)
Rocket 88 is the name of a United Kingdom-based boogie-woogie band formed in the late 1970s by Ian "Stu" Stewart, Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner and Dick Morrissey....

, Snowy White
Snowy White
Snowy White is an English guitarist, primarily known for having played with Thin Lizzy and with Pink Floyd and, more recently, for Roger...

, Mick Taylor
Mick Taylor
Michael "Mick" Kevin Taylor born 17 January 1949 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is an English musician best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones....

, Spencer Davis
Spencer Davis
Spencer Davis is a musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.-Early life:...

, Geno Washington
Geno Washington
Geno Washington is an American R&B singer who released five albums with The Ram Jam Band between 1966 and 1969, and eight solo albums beginning in 1976.-Early to late 1960s:...

, Brian Joseph Friel
Brian Joseph Friel
Brian Joseph Friel is a Scottish folk/country/rock'n'roll singer/songwriter and guitar player.He was signed to Dawn Records in 1973, where he released two albums...

 and various reunions of The Animals
The Animals
The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", the...

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