George Bruno "Zoot" Money (17 July 1942 – 8 September 2024) was an English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader. He was best known for playing the Hammond organ and for his leadership of the Big Roll Band. Inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles, Money was drawn to rock and roll music and became involved in the music scenes of Bournemouth and Soho during the 1960s. He took his stage name "Zoot" from Zoot Sims after seeing him perform in concert.

Money was associated with 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, Hard Travelers, Widowmaker, Georgie Fame and Alan Price. He also became a bit part and character actor in films and TV. and was Musical Director for the 1987 BBC Scotland drama series Tutti Frutti.

George Bruno Money was born in Bournemouth, Dorset on 17 July 1942, the youngest of four children of Italian parents, Oscar and Maria. His father, a hotel waiter, had escaped from Italy to England after Mussolini's rise to power.

Money was obsessed with music from an early age. At Portchester School in Charminster he sang in the choir and learned to play the French horn. In his mid-teens he formed a skiffle group called the Four Ales. In 1958, when he was 14, his elder brother bought tickets for a jazz concert in Bournemouth which featured American saxophonist Zoot Sims, from whom Money took his stage name. He formed the six-piece Portchester Road Jazz Band, in which he played banjo. After leaving school he took up a four-year apprenticeship with an optician and continued to play in bands.

In 1961 Money, "cherry-picking the best musicians in Bournemouth's other rock'n'roll groups", formed the Big Roll Band with himself as vocalist, Roger Collis on lead guitar, pianist Al Kirtley (later of Trendsetters Limited), bassist Mike "Monty" Montgomery and drummer Johnny Hammond. Money named the Big Roll Band after a line he mis-heard, "And you will be the leader of a big old band", in the Chuck Berry song "Johnny B. Goode". Their first public performance was on Sunday 12 November 1961 at The Downstairs Club in Bournemouth. Kirtley recalled Money as "a flamboyant frontman and a natural leader". In 1962 drummer Pete Brookes replaced Hammond, bassist Johnny King replaced Montgomery and tenor sax player Kevin Drake joined the band. Kirtley left shortly afterwards and Money took over on organ.

In its later line-up of Money on organ and vocals, Andy Summers (who later became a member of the Police) on guitar, Nick Newall and Clive Burrows (and later Johnny Almond) on saxophones, Paul Williams on bass and occasional vocals, and Colin Allen on drums, the Big Roll Band played soul, jazz and R&B, following musical trends as the established R&B movement moved into the Swinging Sixties and became associated with the burgeoning "Soho scene" in London. Money's exuberant stage presence and antics as a frontman became a feature of the band's act in London clubs. In 1964 the Big Roll Band started playing regularly at the Flamingo Club in Soho. Money also briefly joined Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, playing Hammond organ. The Big Roll Band released eight singles between 1964 and 1966. On 17 September 1966, Money with the band reached No. 25 in the UK singles charts, with "Big Time Operator" and the band made regular appearances on the ITV music show Ready Steady Go! Zoot!, the most successful of the band's two albums, recorded live at Klooks Kleek in London, reached no.23 in the UK album charts in late 1966.

In July 1967 the Big Roll Band became Dantalian's Chariot, named in the esoteric mid-1960's after a devil in a mediaeval treatise on witchcraft, and with one of the earliest psychedelic light shows the band became regular performers at London's hippy underground clubs UFO and Middle Earth. The band's 1967 single "Madman Running Through the Fields" (B-side "Sun Came Bursting Through My Cloud"), in the style of early Pink Floyd, was popular in the era of LSD-enhanced listening, and despite a lack of chart success the band found itself at the heart of a new counterculture, sharing concert line-ups with Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. In April 1968 Dantalian's Chariot was disbanded.

The album Chariot Rising was released in 1996, comprising both sides of the 1967 single and eight other unreleased studio recordings. It is available on CD.^{[citation needed]}