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You don't have to be poor to be good — says Acker Bilk

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 October 1961

CHRIS BARBER put 'Petite Fleur' into the hit parade three years ago and, in a sense, started the trad jazz boom. Mr. Barber still looks like the mathematician he used to be.

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