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Features Disc of the day
Zoot Money's Big Roll Band
It Should’ve Been Me
(Columbia, 1965)
The Flamingo, Wardour Street, London W1 1962-67 sounded something like this.
Most of the bands that frequented the Flamingo Club in Soho and other soul-orientated venues of the mid'60s offered genuine value, but George Bruno Money's Big Roll Band invariably left the warmest glow. As musicianly as Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames, Herbie Goins And The Nightimers or the Graham Bond Organisation, they also had the populist touch of Jimmy James And The Vagabonds and Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band thanks to the wide-ranging wit and general bonhomie of the leader. Recorded in one working day, their debut album captures the accomplished sweep of the best Flamingo bands, the 12 tracks approximating to the basis of a Big Roll Band 45-minute set. The six-piece band's uptempo covers all swing with a real drive - James Brown's I'll Go Crazy, Rufus Thomas's Jump Back, Chuck Berry's guitar-centric Sweet Little Rock And Roller transposed to organ and Jimmy Reed's Bright Lights Big City - while instrumentals such as Big John Patton's organ work-out Along Came John and Lalo Schifrin's The Cat stretch the leader and his exceedingly able band which included guitarist Andy Summers, yes, that one. Back Door Blues, It Should've Been Me and My Wife Can't Cook allow Zoot's predilection as a lubricious blues raconteur in the mould of early Atlantic Ray Charles to flourish. Zoot and his Big Roll Band were never likely to achieve the pop-rock cross-over acclaim of the bombastic guitar-focused blues-based bands of the later '60s, although drummer Colin Allen (Stone The Crows), bassist Paul Williams (Juicy Lucy, Tempest and others), Summers and, indeed Zoot himself adapted well enough to rock-centric outfits. But this is when they were real big rollers.
Geoff Brown
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 17/04/2009
Further Listening
Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames – Rhythm And Blues At The Flamingo (Columbia, 1964; also see CD Very Best Of… 1998)
Chris Farlowe And The Thunderbirds – Out Of Time: The Immediate Anthology (Immediate, 1999)
Jimmy James And The Vagabonds/The Alan Bown Set - London Swings: Live At The Marquee (Pye, 1966).
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