There are performers who are best known for something which is not representative of their principal work – Don McLean's "American Pie", Lita Roza's "Doggie In The ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

You may not be familiar with his name, but if you're into some of the biggest hits of the '60s, you've likely heard his work. Acker Bilk, born Bernard Stanley Bilk, was a jazz clarinetist who, among ...

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 ...

English clarinet player Acker Bilk, who beat the Beatles and other British rockers to the top of the US music charts with the instrumental Stranger on the Shore, has died at the age of 85. Manager ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...