Zoot Money's Big Roll Band was a British rhythm and blues and modern jazz group, with influence from rock and roll that was formed in England by Zoot Money , in the early autumn of 1961. The band has had a number of personnel changes over the years and was still performing in 2020. Money died in 2024, at the age of 82.
25-735: Cultural References in the first book of the Cornelius Quartet, the principal character, Jeremiah 'Jerry' Cornelius , shows a great liking for Zoot Money's Big Roll Band. In the opening pages, 'Zoot's Suite' (sic: Spotify has the title as Zoot's Suit). Is the very first piece of music referenced in the novel. In autumn 1961 Zoot Money formed the first version of 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. The name 'Big Roll Band' derived from Money mis-hearing
50-414: A super computer for nefarious ends. Jerry is sucked into the plans of Miss Brunner to create the perfect being by merging the bodies of Jerry and herself together. When this is done, a radiantly charismatic hermaphroditic being emerges from the machinery. All who see the new creature fall quaking to their knees. As things turn out, Jerry discovers that "it's a tasty world". Contrary to the apparent chaos of
75-650: Is Norman Spinrad 's The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde . Another is Mœbius 's The Airtight Garage . The Nature of the Catastrophe , a collection of Jerry Cornelius stories and comic strips which had appeared in New Worlds (with art by Mal Dean) by various hands, was published in 1971. It includes works by Moorcock himself, James Sallis , Brian Aldiss , Langdon Jones , M. John Harrison , Richard Glyn Jones, Alex Krislov, and Maxim Jakubowski. The story "...the price
100-500: Is a fictional character created by English author Michael Moorcock . The character is an urban adventurer and an incarnation of the author's Eternal Champion concept. Cornelius is a hipster of ambiguous and occasionally polymorphous gender . Many of the same characters feature in each of several Cornelius books, though the individual books have little connection with one another, having a more metafictional than causal relationship. The first Jerry Cornelius book, The Final Programme ,
125-636: Is a novel by British science fiction and fantasy writer Michael Moorcock . Written in 1965 as the underground culture was beginning to emerge, it was not published for several years. Moorcock has stated that publishers at the time considered it was "too freaky". It was the first of his Jerry Cornelius series of novels and stories and was originally published in paperback in the US by Avon Books in 1968 then in London in hardback by Allison & Busby in October 1969. It
150-802: Is also seen in Alan Moore 's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier as a child. Cornelius appears in the second part of Alan Moore 's three-part comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century . The character also appears in Neurotwistin' , a French novel by Laurent Queyssi (an appearance sanctioned by Moorcock). The 1996 White Wolf anthology Pawn of CHAOS features new Cornelius stories by John Shirley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Nancy Collins. A version of Jerry Cornelius also appears in Michael Moorcock's 1999 graphic novel Multiverse . An ongoing presentation of new Cornelius stories
175-406: Is on Moorcock's Jeremiah Cornelius Facebook page. Carter Kaplan plays a variation on Jerry Cornelius in his novel Tally-Ho, Cornelius! . Author Bruce Sterling has described his recurring character Leggy Starlitz, star of a series of short stories and the novel Zeitgeist , as "a nonlinear descendant of Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius". The Final Programme The Final Programme
200-655: Is worth it" by Graeme K Talboys and the subsequent novels in the Stormlight quartet (along with the short story collection Stormwrack ) are centred on Charlie Cornelius, a daughter of the Cornelius clan with uncertain parentage. In comics , various writers have used elements of the character, including Bryan Talbot 's character Luther Arkwright . Image publishes Matt Fraction 's Casanova series which also pays homage to Cornelius. Tony Lee 's Midnight Kiss features Cornelius with Michael Moorcock's blessing. (Moorcock wrote
225-406: The 1960s, they had little commercial success. In July 1967 the Big Roll Band morphed into Dantalian's Chariot with a psychedelic direction. In 1968 Money accepted a second offer to join ' Eric Burdon and The New Animals'. Money revived the Big Roll Band under a new line-up in 2003 and the band performs regularly at The Bull's Head, Barnes and elsewhere. Jerry Cornelius Jerry Cornelius
250-679: The End of Time series has a character called Jherek Carnelian who is the son of Lord Jagged of Canaria, and there are several hints in the series that Lord Jagged may be a guise of Jerry Cornelius; the Cornelius-series character Una Persson also appears in the "Dancers" series and the Oswald Bastable books, and may also be the character Oona in the later Elric books; Colonel Pyat has his own non-SF series of books by Moorcock, beginning with Byzantium Endures . At least five other variants of
275-472: The JC out of the title. He knows now that I liked it and had no problems with it. Bad Voltage , a 1980s cyberpunk novel by Jonathan Littell that also dealt with themes of bisexuality and violence, features guest appearances by a has-been Jerry Cornelius and a substance-abusing 'Shaky' Mo Collier. The independent comic Elf-Thing featured not only Cornelius but members of his supporting cast in an homage. Cornelius
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#1732855682705300-593: The Ram Jam Band and the Alan Price Set . He was replaced by Johnny Almond . In 1964 the Big Roll Band started playing regularly at The Flamingo Club in Soho , London. Their act featured Money's flamboyant frontman antics. The band signed to Decca Records and released a single that year before switching to EMI 's Columbia label. In 1965 four more singles were released, and their first album, It Should Have Been Me ,
325-487: The Terraphiles . In these four novels Jerry undergoes transformations, dies, is reborn, spends one entire novel as a shivering wreck, and eventually discovers his true natures. Moorcock strenuously objects to his character being depicted as a 'secret agent'. There are almost no elements of the spy genre in the Cornelius stories. In 2008, The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions by Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix
350-455: The UK charts. It was also released in the US by Epic Records label but lacked promotion. During this period Money joined Alexis Korner 's Blues Incorporated for a short spell before returning to his Big Roll Band, but fashions were drifting from rhythm and blues towards more experimental sounds and an emphasis on songwriting. Although a popular fixture on the London club circuit in the first half of
375-619: The best-known version of the band with bassist Paul Williams (who also sang), guitarist Andy Summers (then Somers, later of the Police , who had played with Money in the Don Robb Band), saxophonists Nick Newall and Clive Burrows (Burrows and Williams had played together in the Wes Minster Five), and Colin Allen on drums. Burrows left in autumn of 1965, going on to play with Geno Washington &
400-491: The introduction for the collected trade paperback). Grant Morrison created an Oscar Wilde -inspired steampunk version of Jerry Cornelius in Sebastian O , the original Vertigo mini-series. Another Morrison character, Gideon Stargrave of The Invisibles , is one of the few interpretations of the character that Moorcock has issues with, as he considers the character little more than a straight lift of Cornelius. The name of
425-476: The later Cornelius novels, The Final Programme is quite structured, being an alternative retelling of major episodes of the saga of Elric of Melniboné , with the various characters each taking roles similar to those of the earlier stories: Jerry as Elric, Catherine as Cymoril, and Miss Brunner as Stormbringer . The first US edition (1968) of this work was censored. The 1976 US edition of The Final Programme included an introduction by Norman Spinrad . The novel
450-450: The name occur in other Moorcock works ( Jerry Cornell , Jehamiah Cohnalias , Jhary-a-Conel (Corum, Runestaff), Lord Jagged of Canaria from The Dancers at the End of Time , and the anagrammatic Corum Jhaelen Irsei ). A space pirate named Captain Cornelius (who like Jerry is associated with the commedia dell'arte character Pierrot ) appears in Moorcock's Doctor Who novel, The Coming of
475-501: The phrase "big old band" from the third verse of Chuck Berry 's " Johnny B. Goode ". Their first public performance was on 12 November 1961 at Bournemouth's Downstairs Club . In 1962 drummer Pete Brookes replaced Hammond at the same time as bassist Johnny King replaced Montgomery and tenor sax player Kevin Drake joined the band. Kirtley left shortly afterwards, Money taking over on organ. In late 1963/early 1964 Money established what became
500-528: The protagonist of Mœbius 's The Airtight Garage was changed in later editions to "Lewis Carnelian". In 2006, on his website, Moorcock wrote: I didn't retroactively withdraw permission. Moebius was a friend of friends of mine when he started and someone (I don't know who) told him I didn't like the strip. I loved the strip, though I'd said it wasn't really Jerry Cornelius. This got taken to mean by someone that I didn't like it and Moebius, whom I came to know later and explain that I hadn't withdrawn permission, took
525-517: Was first published in its revised form in 1979. In 2008 Moorcock published the original unpublished first draft of the first part of the novel as Phase 1: A Jerry Cornelius Story in his short story collection Elric:To Rescue Tanelorn published by Del Rey. This article about a novel of the 1960s with a lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender , or queer theme is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on
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#1732855682705550-477: Was issued in October of the same year. At this time Money refused an offer to replace the Animals keyboardist Alan Price , preferring to remain as a vocalist. In July 1966 their single "Big Time Operator" became the group's most successful single, reaching number 25 in UK charts. Their album Zoot Live At Klooks Kleek , was released in October of that year promoting Money as an emerging solo artist and reached 23 in
575-580: Was made into a 1973 film starring Jon Finch and Jenny Runacre . Notting Hill in London features prominently in the stories. The series draws plot elements from Moorcock's Elric series, as well as the Commedia dell'Arte . Moorcock hints in many places that Cornelius may be an aspect of the Eternal Champion . Characters from the Cornelius novels show up in much of Moorcock's other fiction: The Dancers at
600-400: Was made into a 1973 film of the same name (directed by Robert Fuest ), but Moorcock was critical of the version released on the screen. Set in a world less abstract and chaotic than depicted in the later volumes, it introduces Jerry Cornelius as a hip super agent playboy and follows his adventures as he attempts to subvert a plot by his disreputable brother Frank and Miss Brunner to build
625-609: Was released. These were sessions for planned albums based on two Moorcock novels: Glorianna and The Entropy Tango . Two of the Jerry Cornelius/Entropy Tango tracks were reworked with additional musicians and appeared on the Spirits Burning CD Alien Injection , also released in 2008. Moorcock encouraged other authors and artists to create works about Jerry Cornelius, in an early open source shared world attempt at open brand sharing. One example
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