bilk
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He played with jazz acts like Terry Lightfoot and Acker Bilk but his style - fragmented and aggressive, but articulate and insistent - was often an odd fit.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2019
Friends and family paid tribute to Bilk at the service at All Saints Church in Publow, near his home village of Pensford, in Somerset.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2014
The band still plan to play in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on Friday with those led by two other famous names from the 60s and 70s, trombonist Chris Barber and clarinettist Acker Bilk.
From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2013
As a child I was forced to listen to Terry Wogan at breakfast and endless hours of Acker Bilk and The Carpenters on long car journeys.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2011
The long, pure notes of a clarinet spilled out into the Georgia sunshine as Mr. Acker Bilk played “Stranger on the Shore.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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