Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The poignant central clarinet melody of Acker Bilk's 1961 masterpiece Stranger on the Shore retains the power to bring a lump to ...

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With his goatee beard, bowler hat and striped waistcoat, Acker Bilk was one of the most recognisable musicians of the post-war British trad jazz boom. His 1961 record, the haunting Stranger on the ...

The celebrated jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk has died aged 85. Bilk was perhaps best known for his 1961 song Stranger on the Shore and was one of the most important figures in the revival of ...

Acker Bilk, MBE was born Bernard Stanley Bilk on January 28, 1929 in Pensford, Somerset, and was an English clarinettist and vocalist. After Acker left school, he worked in a cigarette factory and ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bedecked in bowler hat and waistcoat and brandishing a clarinet, he seemed an unlikely figure to help lay the ...

Stranger on the Shore is the haunting song that made Acker Bilk an international star. It was originally a shorter piece called Jenny that was named for his daughter. But when a 1960 children's TV ...

The poignant central clarinet melody of Acker Bilk’s 1961 masterpiece Stranger on the Shore retains the power to bring a lump to the throat - and even coax out a tear or two - 64 years after its ...