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Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazz Band

Instantly identifiable for his unique style of bowler hat, goatee beard and waistcoat, clarinetist Acker Bilk – born Bernard Bilk on January 28, 1929, in Somerset, England - will always be remembered for his atmospheric and evocative instrumental “Stranger on The Shore” (1961). He took up playing the clarinet in 1948 while serving in the British Army in Egypt, and subsequently became a key part of the traditional jazz boom in Britain, along with Kenny Ball and Chris Barber. He joined The Ken Colyer Band in 1954, before founding and fronting his own group, the Paramount Jazz Band,...