Should I/Snag It/Pretty Boy/New Orleans Stomp/Corrine Corrina/Coming For To Carry Me Home/Buona Sera/Gatemouth Blues/Club Foot/Lord Let Me In The Lifeboat/Who Rolled That Stone Away/Imperial Echoes
Acker Bilk gradually moved away from trad jazz to include more pop and easy listening tracks. Golden Treasury Of Bilk includes the British top ten hit Buona Sera. (UK:11)
“Although Bilk was certainly well on his way to embracing the pop mainstream by this time, and his ear for melody was certainly leaning toward the more popular end of things, still his stabs at the traditional Go Tell It On The Mountain is nothing if not rousing.”
“Very much a signpost for the slow demise of trad as a major power in the land, nevertheless, this is a heartily enjoyable album.”
“As a trad jazz musician, Bilk rejected the use of amplified instruments and was also against the use of saxophone, most commonly associated at the time with bop and hard bop jazz. He preferred instead the instrumentation most commonly associated with jazz music prior to World War II. As a result, his early recordings featured Bilk on clarinet, with accompaniment on banjo, trumpet, trombone, drums and piano.”
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