Bobby Hackett

Robert Leo (Bobby) Hackett
(Providence, Rhode Island, January 31, 1915 - June 7, 1976, Chatham - Massachussets)

The portrait above was taken at one of the Sunday afternoon jam sessions at Jimmy Ryan’s, January 19, 1941.
Brad Gowans (playing his “valide,” a combination slide/valve trombone of his own manufacture) with Bobby Hackett and Pee Wee Russell, photo by Charles Peterson