Biography
Robert Leo Hackett (January 31, 1915 – June 7, 1976) 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 played Dixieland from the 1930s into the 1970s in a variety of groups with many of the major figures in the field, and he was a featured soloist on the first ten of the numerous Jackie Gleason mood music albums during the 1950s.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Music For Lovers Only
1952
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert - Volume I
1950
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
1950
Atlantic Rhythm And Blues 1947-1974
1985
Glenn Miller Plays Selections From "The Glenn Miller Story" And Other Hits
1956
Music, Martinis, And Memories
1954
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert - Volume II
The Commodore Years
1973
This Is The Big Band Era
1971
In Memoriam
1971
The Unforgettable Glenn Miller 70 Of His Greatest Original Recordings
1968
Music To Change Her Mind
1956
Jazz Sampler
1955
Limited Edition, Volume Two
1954
Sings The Blues
1954
Music To Make You Misty
1953
Limited Edition
1953
The 1950's -The Singers
1987
20 Golden Greats
1984
Cotton Club Stars
1984
Newport Jazz Festival: Live (Unreleased Highlights From 1956, 1958, 1963)
1982
History Of Jazz
1978
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
1975
The Swinging Big Bands - Glenn Miller Vol. 3
1974
Credited work
1,768 releases · 358 albums · active 1950–2024
- Performance · 1,623
- Other credits · 1,276
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Carnegie Hall · Town Hall, New York · WOR Studios · Roosevelt Grill