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, ...

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 — Clarinet player Acker Bilk, whose smooth sound topped music charts on both sides of the Atlantic, has died at the age of 85. Manager Pamela Sutton says 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 ...

Acker Bilk's song Aria was played as his coffin was carried out of All Saints Church in Publow, near Bilk's home village of Pensford Hundreds of mourners have turned out for the funeral of jazz ...