Acker Bilk has won ... 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 ...

Stranger on the Shore is the haunting song that made Acker Bilk an international star ... which gained it an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. Bilk is on the select list of artists who ...

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 ...

Clarinettist Acker Bilk ... Besides Stranger on the Shore, Bilk also had hits with tunes such as Summer Set and Buona Sera. He sold millions of records and won an Ivor Novello award.

Acker Bilk's song ... jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk. Bilk, who died earlier this month at the age of 85, became an international star after the release of his 1961 hit record Stranger on the ...

Bilk himself was always billed as “Mr Acker Bilk”, while the band’s record albums, press advertisements and handbills came complete with yards of Leslie’s orotund, mock-Edwardian prose ...

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 ...

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 ...