Zoot and the Roots were a British

United Kingdom

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 jazz

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 band based in York

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 during the 1980s, fronted by Miles Gilderdale

Miles Gilderdale

Miles Gilderdale is a member of smooth jazz group Acoustic Alchemy and plays the steel-string acoustic guitar and electric guitar....

 and featuring saxophonist Snake Davis

Snake Davis

Snake Davis is a session musician who has played with some of the worlds biggest artists. In the 1980s he fronted York band Zoot and the Roots....

. It also featured future video game music composer, Grant Kirkhope

Grant Kirkhope

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 on trumpet

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Singles and EPs

• "I Ate The Little Red Rooster" / "Ronnie Get Your Gun": (Red Rhino Records
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• "Sweat And Tears": Honeybee Records
• "This Heart": Native Records
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• "Make Me Believe in You": Indiscreet Records
• "The Bee Jives Out" EP
  Extended play
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  : Indiscreet Records
• "New Rain": Honeybee Records

Albums

• Guardian Angels of The Groove: Honeybee Records, 1988 (recorded live
  Live album
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   in Geneva
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Line-ups

The line-up for the 1983 Red Rhino single was:

• Miles Gilderdale
  Miles Gilderdale
  Miles Gilderdale is a member of smooth jazz group Acoustic Alchemy and plays the steel-string acoustic guitar and electric guitar....
  
   - guitar and lead vocals
• Gavin Ewing - bass
• Ants Miller - trumpet
• Alan Elias - saxophones
• Glenn Smith - drums

This line-up was augmented soon after by David Brown (keyboards)

The band's line-up was later substantially revised as follows:

• Miles "Paperelli" Gilderdale - vocals and guitar
• Gavin Ewing - bass
• George "Doctor Phibes" Hall - keyboards
• Ian Kay - drums
• Snake Davis
  Snake Davis
  Snake Davis is a session musician who has played with some of the worlds biggest artists. In the 1980s he fronted York band Zoot and the Roots....
  
   - saxophone
• Frank "Unkle B" Mizen - trombone
• Grant "Dogtagnan' Kirkhope
  Grant Kirkhope
  Grant Kirkhope is a British video game music composer, known for writing the soundtracks for numerous games by Rare, such as Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark and Donkey Kong 64.-Biography:...
  
   - trumpet

The line-up for the 1988 album was:

• Miles Gilderdale - guitar and lead vocals
• Gavin Ewing - bass
• George Hall - keyboards and Hammond organ
• Grant Kirkhope - trumpet
• Snake Davis
  Snake Davis
  Snake Davis is a session musician who has played with some of the worlds biggest artists. In the 1980s he fronted York band Zoot and the Roots....
  
  - saxophone
• Frank Mizen - trombone
• Mark Stevens (Dagwood) - drums
• Pete Whinnet - keyboards
• Nigel Harrison - guitar