Acker Bilk | The Very Best of Acker Bilk | 2CD

Acker Bilk was an English clarinettist and bandleader whose recordings connected traditional jazz with melodic popular music. His distinctive instrumental tone and lyrical phrasing gave familiar tunes an individual character within ensemble arrangements.

The Very Best of Acker Bilk presents Bilk, Acker in this CD release. The programme includes Stranger On the Shore, Buona Sera, There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder, bringing contrasting performances and arrangements together in a collected listening sequence.

Track List

Disc 1

1. Stranger On the Shore
2. Buona Sera
3. There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
4. In a Persian Market
5. Papa Dip
6. Lazy River
7. Band of Thieves
8. Deep Purple
9. The Gay Hussar March
10. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
11. Cushion Foot Stomp
12. Marching Through Georgia
13. Go Tell It On a Mountain
14. Lonely
15. Gladiolus Rag
16. Fancy Pants
17. Carry Me Back
18. Greensleeves
19. Should I
20. C.R.E. March
21. All I Wanna Do Is Sing
22. Higher Ground
23. The White Cliffs of Dover
24. Frankie and Johnny
25. New Orleans Stomp

Disc 2

1. Summer Set
2. That's My Home
3. House Rent Stomp
4. Dippermouth Blues
5. Carolina Moon
6. El Abanico
7. Pretty Boy
8. Smoochy
9. Old Comrades March
10. Under the Double Eagle
11. Who Rolled Away the Stone
12. Gotta See My Baby Tonight
13. Stomp Off, Let's Go
14. Corrine Corrina
15. Sentimental Journey
16. Dardanella
17. Original Dixieland One Step
18. Good Woman Blues
19. Tiger Rag
20. Nobody Knows the Trouble
21. Blaze Away
22. Snake Rag
23. Sweet Elizabeth
24. Stars and Stripes Forever
25. I'm Going Home