Moonlight Becomes You - Bobby Hackett

Flamingo

Moonlight Becomes You

Bobby Hackett

With Strings

Pickwick SPC 3012

1965

From the back cover: A combination of Bobby Hackett and a full-sized string section results in one of those intensely pleasurable sensations that occur so rarely in music or life. But when they do occur, as in this album, there's no doubt about those tremors of delight running up and down our spine.

Bobby Hackett plays the cornet with a style that stays as fresh as a moon-lit night in spring. His musical ancestry has been traced directly to the clean, melodic attack of the legendary Bix Beiderbecke, but Hackett has added his own soaring lyricism to this tradition. The cornet has never been in better hands.

Actually, Hackett's first instrument was the violin which he started playing as a youngster in Providence where he was born in 1915. However, he soon dropped the fiddle for the guitar and cornet which became the keys to his entry into the big band scene. He played with Glenn Miller and Horace Hiedt and then located in New York where he became the top network studio musician in the big town. For a time, he also served as a conductor for the ABC network, but his inner tie was not to the baton but to the cornet.

Hackett has made some of the mellowest mood music on record with the help of glistening violin's backgrounds. This album is a selection of Hackett's most tenderly romantic performances. He weaves pure enchantment around "Mood Indigo," "Flamingo," "Serenade In Blue" and the other melodies in this set. So sit back, breathe easy and dream away. – Herman Schoenfeld, Music Editor Of Variety

Moonlight Becomes You

Serenade In Blue

Up A Lazy River

Mood Indigo

Flamingo

Moonlight Serenade

Wonderful One

Autumn Serenade

A Handful Of Stars

Street Of Dreams