These days, Kenny G’s whole public existence seems to be limited to TV commercials where he makes fun of himself. But those of us who are old enough remember when Kenny G was running shit. In the late ...

Acker Bilk's 1962 instrumental tune Stranger on the Shore reached Number 2 on the Official UK Singles Chart and was the first Number 1 single in the United States by a British artist in the Billboard ...

LONDON (AP) - English clarinet player Acker Bilk, who beat the Beatles and other British rockers to the top of the U.S. music charts with the instrumental "Stranger on the Shore," has died at the age ...

England's Acker Bilk's big hit of 1961, the sugary, vibrato packed "Stranger on the Shore" masked the fact that Bilk had been (and continues to be ) a fine New Orleans jazz performer. Bilk was a ...

"[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 ...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. These days, ...

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 ...