When Georgie Fame called his old friend Zoot Money up on stage to sing at Ronnie Scott’s Club one autumn night in London in 2022 – “Come on Zoot, I can’t do this without you” – they tore the house down.
It was a moving moment for both performers, as they joined forces with the Guy Barker Big Band to sing Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, that brought back memories of the days when Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band vied for popularity with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames at the height of the British R&B boom.
