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Robert Leo "Bobby" Hackett (January 31, 1915 – June 7, 1976) was an US jazz musician who played trumpet, cornet and guitar with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late thirties and early forties. During the 1950s, he made a series of albums of ballads with a full string orchestra, produced by Jackie Gleason, exhibiting a dreamy, vibrato-free sound.
Listener in Italy...
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I spend the whole day with the music of BEAUTIFUL INSTRUMENTAL in
background. Amazing radio without boring advertisements or annoying speakers
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RIP...conductor Raymond Leppard
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Raymond John Leppard CBE (11 August 1927 – 22 October 2019) was a British
conductor, harpsichordist, composer and editor. In the 1960s, he played a
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