Acker Bilk

Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, born on 28 January 1929, is an English clarinetist in the dixieland-jazz. Characteristic for him a goatee, bowler hat, striped vest and his full, rich vibrato, lagereregisterklarinetstijl. He is also known by his stage name Mr. Acker Bilk.



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[hide] *1 early life  ==Youth Years[ Edit] == The nickname Acker is the South Western English slang for ' friend ' or ' Comrade '. His parents tried to let him learn piano as a boy, but his interest went more to outdoor activities such as football. He lost two teeth In a fight at school and in the event of an accident with the Luge he lost half a finger, and those two events have according to Bilk his eventual clarinet style affected. [1]
 * 2 music career
 * 3 private life
 * 4 discography (selection)
 * 5 footnotes and references
 * 6 external links

After his school days he worked three years in a cigarette factory in Bristol. Then he performed his military service out. Know the Bilk clarinet met through his friend, the Sapper John British, who had bought the instrument second hand but it not very helpful. The cane was missing and the British had solved that by instead a piece of scrap wood to use. ==Musical career[ Edit] == After his military service went Bilk working at the forge of an uncle. During the evenings, he played music with friends, initially in Bristol. In 1951 he moved to London, where he played in a band with Kenneth Colyer. Bilk did not feel at home in London and founded in his home city of Bristol the Paramount Jazz Band on. thanks to their representative they could play six months long in Düsseldorf in a beer bar. Bilk developed there with his band the style that has him published. On returning to Great Britain play in the London jazzclubscene and Bilk went so he was part of the traditional jazz in the late 1950s entrance made. In that time he was already called Mister Acker Bilk . In the 1960s wrote Bilk different numbers with pianist Dave Collett. As he reached the fifth place in the British hit parade[2]  and eleven hits in the top 50.

Acker Bilk only became an international star after he extended his music band and released their own number in 1962. After the birth of his daughter Jenny, he wrote a song for her. That number was used for the British television series Stranger on the Shore. Thereby remained the number 55 in the UK singles chart for weeks and it came also in the u.s. charts visit. There were more than a million copies sold and the number was awarded a gold record. [3]. it was the start of a major international career for Acker Bilk.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">His success only a carriage return when the British rock and roll began to be popular from 1964, making Bilk earlier in the cabaret circuit as a youth player. However, he scored another hit with Aria in 1976. In 1977, he played during an interlude for the Eurovision Song Contest. Other major successes were still his album Evergreen, released in 1978. Early 80 's was the song Stranger On The Shore again used, this time in the soundtrack of the film biography of country legend Patsy Cline. In 2001, Acker Bilk crowned member in the order of the British Empire. In 2012 the Aria musical Bilks number thread in a Polish film. Most of his classic albums with the Paramount Jazz Band are still available.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Bilk is sometimes called the Grand Master of the clarinet called. His clarinet sound and style is similar to that of American jazz musicians such as Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Russell Procope. The song Stranger On The Shore is a standard number to view the article in the jazz, but also remains in popular music popular.

<p lang="en" len="249" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Acker Bilk still touring with his Paramount Jazz Band and also still gives concerts. ==Private Life<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Acker Bilk married Jean, a girl he knew from his childhood. The couple has two children. Their daughter Jenny is named after a composition that later became known under the title Stranger On The Shore. After the family lived for years in the neighborhood of London, lives now in Pensford in Somerset.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-thisisbristol.co.uk_4-0" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Throat cancer at Bilk was established, which was treated by a chrirurgische surgery and daily radiation therapy since then he underwent several operations, including for bladder cancer, and he also got a small stroke.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-thisisbristol.co.uk_4-1" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4] ==Discography (selection)<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Stranger on the Shore, 1961
 * Taste of Honey, EMI, 1963
 * Acker Bilk in Holland, Wim Wigt/Timeless Records, 1984/2000
 * It Looks Like a Big Time Tonight (with Ken Colyer), Stomp Off, 1985
 * All That Jazz (compilation album with recordings of Bilk, Kenny Ball and Chris Barber), Kaz, 1994