Flying the traditional jazz flag the world over for almost forty years, trumpeter Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen have racked up an impressive fourteen top thirty records – even eclipsing the great Louis Armstrong’s chart total. With a career that kicked off with the chart success of ‘Samantha’ in 1960, saw a four year stint as the house band on the Morecambe And Wise Show, plus a top two slot in both the US and UK with the ever-popular ‘Midnight In Moscow’, Kenny Ball And His Jazz Men continue to play to sell-out audiences across Europe and sell records in the hundreds of thousands.
Acker Bilk’s much imitated, deep, vibrato-rich clarinet is as distinctive on the jazz circuit as his legendary bowler hat and waistcoat combo. First hitting the UK charts in 1960 with ‘Summer Set’, which began a run of eleven top fifty singles, Acker has enjoyed world tours and international success with ‘Stranger On The Shore’ which Acker jokingly refers to as his “old age pension”.
Reuniting two of the legendary ‘3Bs’ and recalling the heyday of the traditional jazz boom, Back To Back is a night of pure musical excellence and a must for jazz lovers everywhere.
Acker Bilk’s much imitated, deep, vibrato-rich clarinet is as distinctive on the jazz circuit as his legendary bowler hat and waistcoat combo. First hitting the UK charts in 1960 with ‘Summer Set’, which began a run of eleven top fifty singles, Acker has enjoyed world tours and international success with ‘Stranger On The Shore’ which Acker jokingly refers to as his “old age pension”.
Reuniting two of the legendary ‘3Bs’ and recalling the heyday of the traditional jazz boom, Back To Back is a night of pure musical excellence and a must for jazz lovers everywhere.