Acker Bilk MBE (born 28 January 1929), born Bernard Stanley Bilk (known more familiarly as Mr. Acker Bilk), is a clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style. He was born in Pensford, Somerset, England. Bilk earned the nickname Acker from the Somerset slang for 'friend' or 'mate'.

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  • Acker Bilk MBE (born 28 January 1929), born Bernard Stanley Bilk (known more familiarly as Mr. Acker Bilk), is a clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style. He was born in Pensford, Somerset, England. Bilk earned the nickname Acker from the Somerset slang for 'friend' or 'mate'. His parents tried to have him learn the piano, but Bilk as a boy found it restricting upon his love of outdoor activities including football. He also lost two front teeth in a school fight and half a finger in a sledging accident, both of which Bilk has claimed to have affected his eventual clarinet style. He learned the clarinet while serving in the Royal Engineers in the Suez Canal Zone, and by the mid-1950s he was playing professionally. Bilk was part of the boom in traditional jazz that swept the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. He first joined Ken Colyer's band in 1954, and then formed his own ensemble, The Paramount Jazz Band, in 1956. Four years later, his single "Summer Set" (a pun on his home county) hit the British charts and it began a run of eleven top 50 hit singles. Bilk was not an international star until an experiment with a string ensemble and a composition of his own as its keynote piece made him one in 1962. He wrote "Stranger on the Shore" for a British television serial series, and recorded it as the title track of a new album in which his signature deep, quivering clarinet was backed by the Leon Young String Chorale. The single was not only a big hit in the United Kingdom (where it stayed on the charts for a remarkable 55 weeks, gaining a second wind after Bilk was the subject of the TV show This Is Your Life) but shot to the top of the American charts as well – at a time when the American pop charts and radio playlists were open to just about anything, in just about any style; making Bilk the first male Briton ever to have a single in the number one position on the Billboard singles chart. (Vera Lynn was the first British artist to top the U.S. Billboard charts with "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" in 1952). The album was also highlighted by a striking interpretation of Bunny Berigan's legendary hit "I Can't Get Started. " At one point, at the height of his career, Bilk's public relations workers were known as the "Bilk Marketing Board", a play on the then Milk Marketing Board. Bilk recorded a series of albums in England that were also released successfully in the United States, including a memorable collaboration (Together) with Danish jazz pianist-composer Bent Fabric ("The Alley Cat"). But his success tapered off when British rock and roll made its big international explosion beginning in 1964, and Bilk shifted direction to the cabaret circuit. He finally had another chart success in 1976, with "Aria," which went to number five in the United Kingdom. In the early 1980s, Bilk and his signature hit were newly familiar, thanks to "Stranger on the Shore" being used in the soundtrack to Sweet Dreams, the film biography of country music legend Patsy Cline. Most of his classic albums with the Paramount Jazz Band have been reissued and are available on the UK based Lake Records label. Bilk has been described as "Great Master of the Clarinet" and is often said to be the originator of 'Hyung-Tiger' playing, often copied by such artists as Johnny Range and Ted Morton. His clarinet sound and style was at least as singular as had been those of American jazzmen such as Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Russell Procope, and "Stranger on the Shore" – which he was once quoted as calling "my old-age pension" – remains a beloved standard of jazz and popular music alike. By 2000, Bilk was reportedly semi-retired and taking up painting as a hobby, but still appears with contemporaries, Chris Barber and Kenny Ball (both of whom were born in 1930) as the 3B's. One of his best recordings is with the Chris Barber band, sharing the clarinet spot with the band's regular reedsmen, John Crocker and Ian Wheeler. He made a CD with another legend of British Jazz Wally Fawkes for the Lake Records label in 2002. He has appeared on two recent albums by Van Morrison, Down the Road and What's Wrong With This Picture?.
  • Bernard Stanley Bilk, MBE, bekannt unter dem Namen Mr. Acker Bilk, ist ein englischer Jazzklarinettist. Bilks Vater war Prediger und seine Mutter Organistin, so dass er schon in der Jugend musikalisch vorgeprägt war. Zur Klarinette kam er unfreiwillig durch seine Militärzeit: Weil er während seiner Dienstzeit 1947 in Ägypten auf Wache eingeschlafen war, musste er drei Monate in Militärarrest und brachte sich dort selbst zum Zeitvertreib das Klarinettespielen bei. Nach seiner Entlassung wurde er zunächst Schmied, kam aber schnell zur Musik und war bereits Mitte der 50er Mitglied der Ken Colyer Group. 1958 gründete er mit der Paramount Jazz Band seine eigene Band. Markenzeichen waren Melone und Ziegenbart sowie die gestreiften Jazz-Westen der ganzen Band. Sein Spitzname Acker kommt von einem südenglischen Dialektausdruck für Freund oder Kumpel. Mit den Paramounts tourte er sowohl durch England als auch durch Deutschland und konnte 1960 in beiden Ländern mit dem Instrumentaltitel Summer Set seinen ersten Charterfolg feiern. Ein weiterer Erfolgstitel war seine Version des Instrumentalstücks Petite Fleur, komponiert von Sidney Bechet. Ein weiteres Lied, das er nach seiner Tochter Jenny benannt hatte, wurde im Jahr darauf für die Kinder-Fernsehserie Stranger on the Shore ausgewählt. Unter dem Titel der Serie wurde es in einer Neuaufnahme mit dem Leon Young String Chorale zu einem Welthit. In den USA erreichte das ruhige Klarinetteninstrumental Platz 1 und war ein Millionen-Seller. In Großbritannien, wo es Platz 2 erreichte, war es über ein Jahr in den Charts und ist bis heute der meistverkaufte Instrumentaltitel aller Zeiten. Mit dem Beginn der Beat-Ära trat die Jazzmusik allgemein in den Hintergrund, und so wurde es stiller um Acker Bilk in den Hitparaden. 1976 hatte er in England mit seiner Instrumentalversion des Titels Aria noch einen Top-Ten-Hit. Als berühmter Jazzklarinettist war er bis ins hohe Alter in aller Welt unterwegs. 2001 wurde er mit dem Order of the British Empire ausgezeichnet.
  • Acker Bilk, oik. Bernard Stanley Bilk, tunnetaan nimellä "Mr. Acker Bilk", MBE on brittiläinen jazz-klarinetisti. Bilk liittyi vuonna 1954 Ken Colyerin yhtyeeseen mutta perusti sitten oman kokoonpanonsa ja nousi listoille kappaleellaan "Summer Set". Kansainväliseksi läpimurroksi osoittautui "Stranger on the Shore".
  • アッカー・ビルク（Acker Bilk, 1929年1月28日 - ）は、イギリス・サマーセット州生まれのクラリネット奏者・バンドマスター・作曲家・編曲家。 少年時代、そり滑りで遊んでいたときに、不運にも雪の下に隠れていた岩で指の第一関節を失ってしまうというアクシデントを起こす。これはクラリネット奏者としては致命的なハンディだが、彼はその後、それを克服したばかりか、逆手にそれを生かして、なくした指の柔らかな肉のクッションを使ってユニークなクラリネット・トーンを生み出すことに成功した。 1958年に自身のバンドであるパラマウント・ジャズ・バンドを結成し、ニューオルリンズ・スタイルのトラッド・ジャズ・ブームにのって人気を博し、1963年に解散するまでの5年間に、ラジオ、テレビ、映画、ステージ等に大活躍をする。特に、1961年に英BBCテレビの番組「Stranger on the Shore（直訳：渚の見知らぬ人）」の彼自身の作曲によるテーマ曲「白い渚のブルース」（邦題。原題は前記のテレビ番組と同じ）は、翌年、全米、全英のヒットチャートにて第1位を獲得し、ミリオンセラーを記録。全世界で大ヒットし、この1曲で、彼の名は一躍世界中に知れ渡る様になる。 1963年以降はクラリネットのソロ・プレイヤーとして活躍し、多くのレコードを出している。
  • Acker Bilk é um clarinetista de jazz.
  • Acker Bilk, Bernard Stanley Bilk född 28 januari 1929 i Somerset, England, brittisk jazzklarinettist som anses som en av de främsta.
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  • Acker Bilk MBE (born 28 January 1929), born Bernard Stanley Bilk (known more familiarly as Mr. Acker Bilk), is a clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style. He was born in Pensford, Somerset, England. Bilk earned the nickname Acker from the Somerset slang for 'friend' or 'mate'.
  • Bernard Stanley Bilk, MBE, bekannt unter dem Namen Mr. Acker Bilk, ist ein englischer Jazzklarinettist. Bilks Vater war Prediger und seine Mutter Organistin, so dass er schon in der Jugend musikalisch vorgeprägt war. Zur Klarinette kam er unfreiwillig durch seine Militärzeit: Weil er während seiner Dienstzeit 1947 in Ägypten auf Wache eingeschlafen war, musste er drei Monate in Militärarrest und brachte sich dort selbst zum Zeitvertreib das Klarinettespielen bei.
  • Acker Bilk, oik. Bernard Stanley Bilk, tunnetaan nimellä "Mr. Acker Bilk", MBE on brittiläinen jazz-klarinetisti. Bilk liittyi vuonna 1954 Ken Colyerin yhtyeeseen mutta perusti sitten oman kokoonpanonsa ja nousi listoille kappaleellaan "Summer Set". Kansainväliseksi läpimurroksi osoittautui "Stranger on the Shore".
  • Acker Bilk é um clarinetista de jazz.
  • Acker Bilk, Bernard Stanley Bilk född 28 januari 1929 i Somerset, England, brittisk jazzklarinettist som anses som en av de främsta.
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