I have always refused to feel that any music that I have loved is ever too 'out of date', too weird, too soppy, too old, for if I have loved it and lived in it, then it is a part of my soul too. Heavy string background music may be out of style but I shall never be unfaithful to it, as follows for the clarinet sounds of Acker Bilk. I have ,many times, experienced loneliness in my life ( now almost 72) and there is no doubt that is one of the reasons that I am attracted to sounds which speak to my soul and why I still have all the music of my life in recordings. Acker, you will never be far from many of us for as long as we live.
Some years ago the jass festival in Bristol was a great place to attend its was held open air outside the old duke in King St.this was before bristol was woke I remember late one sat.evening about 10.30 aker.after about 6 pints of scrumpy cider took to the staged stumbled as he went held his clarinet.and started to play .the dancing stopped and their was total silence as aker. Made that instrument talk an absolute legend🍺
