Acker Bilk
UK
Born: 28 January 1929
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz, Easy Listening
Styles: Trad Jazz, Dixieland, New Orleans/Classic Jazz
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Acker Bilk -- or Mr. Acker Bilk, as he was billed -- 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. To the jazz world, though, he has a longer-running track record as one of the biggest stars of Britain's trad jazz boom, playing in a distinctive early New Orleans manner. After learning his instrument in the British Army, Bilk joined Ken Colyer's trad band in 1954 before stepping out on his own in 1956. B...
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