Bobby Hackett, American trumpet player and cornet player (died 1976)

Bobby Hackett

American jazz trumpeter (1915–1976)

Robert Leo Hackett was a versatile American jazz musician who played swing music, Dixieland jazz and mood music, now called easy listening, on trumpet, cornet, and guitar. He played Swing with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he…