RIP Acker

[User16390]

Just read that Acker Bilk had passed away aged 85. Many happy memories of my father playing his music when I was a child.

Rest In Peace Acker.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jZeXvpyZQ

 

[Cycleops]

Very sad, 85 is not a bad innings though.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've just heard this as well, Stranger On The Shore one of my favorite pieces of music, R.I.P. Acker

 

[Geoff Crowther]

I remember buying one of his albums when I was quite young and the family bought our first record player. The track I remember was "Samantha".
Rest in peace.

 

[Saluki]

My Dad was a huge fan. Hated his music as a child but came to appreciate it as I got a bit more mature.
A legend. RIP

 

[jazzkat]

A top class musician.
RIP

 

[GM]

Another legend gone. Saw him a couple of times in concert, he used to crack a couple of good jokes between songs. RIP

 

[Keith Oates]

I have a lot of his music in the computer and regularly play it of an evening, he was a great musician and sad to hear that he has passed on, RIP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[raleighnut]

RIP, but as already mentioned 85 is going some.

 

[biggs682]

rip mr bilk , who was the radio 1 dj who use to play his tunes quite a bit as part of his program ?

 

[MossCommuter]

I knew the chap that gave Bilk (for that is what he called him) his first clarinet. John had a clarinet that he could not play and Bilk had a trumpet that he didn't care for so they swapped. John didn't become a great trumpeter.

 

[numbnuts]

Oh poos RIP

 

[Archie_tect]

Both my children started the clarinet when they went to school... I promised them both real money if they could learn to play Stranger on the Shore like him.... sadly they never took to music from being small, despite Mrs A_T's piano skills, but then I'm not surprised with the defective music genes they have inherited.

 

[Davidc]

Great fun, respectable musician, and a drinking mate of my dad's in Bristol in the 1950s!

Anyone else remember him at The King and Queen in Brighton in the 1980s?

Sad that he's gone.

 

[Over The Hill]

This is a lesser known but beautiful and brilliant track - ARIA

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEp9mZqLLcw


My mum loved Acker and we played this at her funeral. If you have not heard it then you will have a heart of stone if you dont need a little dab of your eye when you play this.