These days, Kenny G’s whole public existence seems to be limited to TV commercials where he makes fun of himself. But those of us who are old enough remember when Kenny G was running shit. In the late ...

Acker Bilk has won immortality on rock oldies radio for his surprise 1962 hit "Stranger on the Shore," an evocative ballad featuring his heavily quavering low-register clarinet over a bank of strings.

During the American rock and roll era (1955-present), several hundred British singles have topped the American charts but the very first was by a former traditional jazz artist who never had another ...

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, ...

England's Acker Bilk's big hit of 1961, the sugary, vibrato packed "Stranger on the Shore" masked the fact that Bilk had been (and continues to be ) a fine New Orleans jazz performer. Bilk was a ...

Clarinet player Acker Bilk is "fed up" with playing his most famous tune - Stranger on the Shore. The 83-year-old jazz musician who lives in Pensford, Somerset, had a hit with it in the early 1960s ...

The human brain, exemplified by those belonging to today’s graduates, is a wonderful thing. We now know a great deal about it, but some great mysteries remain. One perplexing example is taste in music ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.… These days, ...

Acker Bilk, MBE was born Bernard Stanley Bilk on January 28, 1929 in Pensford, Somerset, and was an English clarinettist and vocalist. After Acker left school, he worked in a cigarette factory and ...

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 ...

The 83-year-old jazz musician who lives in Pensford, Somerset, had a hit with it in the early 1960s and has played it regularly ever since. His record was the UK's biggest selling single of 1962 and ...