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Acker Bilk — or Mr. Acker Bilk, as he was billed — offers received immortality on rock and roll oldies radio for his shock 1962 strike “Stranger around the Shoreline,” an evocative ballad offering his greatly quavering low-register clarinet more than a lender of strings. Towards the jazz globe, though, …

British baritone John Shirley-Quirk loved singing and taking part in the violin as a kid, but his accurate vocal talent didn’t become obvious until he had been learning chemistry and physics in the University or college of Liverpool. After many years of teaching those topics at a English Air Force …