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Re: acker bilk CD

Author: tinminer
Date: 2003-03-23 19:40

Acker Bilk and his 5/6 piece band have been playing 'traditional jazz' as it's known in the UK - our version of 'dixieland' - since the sixties.
He occasionally puts out CD's with mellower orchestral arrangements possibly to appeal to a wider market, but his tone has always been raw from having to compete (unamplified) with trumpet and trombone on stage.
Sophisticated he ain't, good-time jazzer he certainly is ! I was playing his 'Stranger on the shore' in school concerts in the early 60's, trying to emulate his tone, accompanied by a bemused classical pianist....

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