biography
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Bilk, Acker
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popular name of Bernard Stanley Bilk
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Jazz musician, composer, and bandleader, born in Pensford, Somerset, SW England, UK. He took up the clarinet while doing National Service, later joining Ken Colyer's Band as clarinettist, and forming the Bristol Paramount Jazz Band in 1951. Hit singles include ‘Somerset’ (1960), ‘Stranger on the Shore’ (1961, first No 1 simultaneously in UK and USA), and ‘Aria’ (1976). Still performing and recording into the 1990s, his later albums include That's My Home (1994) and Three in the Morning (1995). |
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