[Dixielandjazz] Acker

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Humphrey Lyttelton had a lovely reminiscence of Earle Warren, a MIGHTY saxophonist and a seriously individual clarinetist (witness an old recording with Red Allen et al.) dashing away from a conversation at a jazz festival because he heard and instantly recognised Acker Bilk. 

as regards the strings on the STRANGER ON THE SHORE single, the guilty party (arr. etc., the Hoary Boorandbore as whose Orchestra the superfluous session men were labelled, ,) he as I recall was the object of a welcome early denunciation in the pioneering BBC television revue THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS. 
His name slithered in among the credits, and everywhere else it could. 

As for Petite Fleur, Steve Lacy kept doing it between things that would Frenchify this site's atmosphere (people hanging up garlic as well as making the sign of the cross) 
and Bob Wilber proved himself to be a true jazz hero by limiting his command of good timing to what he did when playing. And letting Monty get in just before him, in Bob's opinion improving in advance on what Bob himself could have done 

for sheer Acker clarinet, there can be little better than the extremely fiery Ellingtonian work he did with Stan Tracey.