Acker Bilk has won immortality on rock oldies radio for his surprise 1962 hit "Stranger on the Shore," an evocative ballad featuring his heavily quavering low-register clarinet over a bank of strings.

English clarinet player Acker Bilk, who reached the top of the U.S. music charts with the instrumental “Stranger on the Shore,” has died. He was 85. Bilk died Sunday at a hospital in Bath, ...

"[Acker had] been ill for some time. He was my great friend and his music was legendary," Sutton said. The Somerset-born musician emerged as a major figure in the traditional jazz revival in the 1950s ...

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In this file photo dated March 13, 2001, clarinettist and vocalist Acker Bilk holds his MBE awarded to him for services to the music industry, who has died Sunday Nov. 2, 2014, aged 85. The legendary ...

During the American rock and roll era (1955-present), several hundred British singles have topped the American charts but the very first was by a former traditional jazz artist who never had another ...

The great master of the clarinet has to be heard to be believed. The name Acker means mate or friend and an apt sobriquet for the leader of the Paramount Jazz band whose sense of humour and ...

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Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, MBE (28 January 1929 – 2 November 2014) was a British clarinetist and vocalist known for his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register style, and distinctive appearance – of ...

Acker Bilk, who has died aged 85, was a jazz musician who rose to fame on a wave of enthusiasm for trad jazz but, with his distinctive look of long sideburns, goatee beard, garish waistcoat, and ...

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 ...