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Zoot Money
12+ albums
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Zoot Money (born George Bruno Money in Bournemouth on 17 July 1942; died 8 September 2024) was an English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader remembered for Zoot Money's Big Roll Band and for recording with a host of artists including The Animals, Eric Burdon, Peter Green, Steve Marriott, Kevin Coyne, Kevin Ayers, Humble Pie, Steve Ellis, Alexis Korner, Snowy White, Mick Taylor, Spencer Davis, Vivian Stanshall, Geno Washington, Brian Friel, the Hard Travelers, Widowmaker, Georgie Fame and Alan Price. Money grew up in an Italian-immigrant (on his father's side, English-descended) family. He was musically inclined from an early age and his first instrument, taken up at school, was the French horn -- he also sang in the choir as a boy. During the mid-1950s, he discovered rhythm-and-blues and its younger offshoot, rock 'n' roll, which quickly consumed his interest in music -- he switched to the keyboard under the inspiration of Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles, and by the beginning of the 1960s was developing a distinctive technique on the Hammond organ. He had also picked up the nickname by which he would be known for most of his career after attending a concert by Zoot Sims. He passed through the line-ups of a few groups as a keyboard player, including the Don Robb Band -- where one of his bandmates was a guitarist going by the name of Andy Somers (aka Summers) -- and the Wes Minster Five, a jazz-based semi-professional quintet. Their line-up sounds like a UK super-group: pia
