Acker Bilk & Roger Bennett with the Blue Note Jazz Band

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Clearly not in the best of health but Acker was still playing beautifully. Like a true jazzman he wasn’t content to repeat his hit version of ‘Stranger on the Shore’ but instead gives us a completely original and beautiful new version. Also good to see he’d still retained his renowned sense of humour substituting “where elm tress used to grow” for “and the old shady elm trees grow” in his rendition of ‘That’s My Home’.

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Geoff Hancock on bass.