Bobby Hackett played trumpet, cornet and guitar and is maybe best known for his playing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the early 1940s. However, he made his name as a follower of the legendary cornet player Bix Beiderbecke: Benny Goodman hired him to recreate Bix's famous I'm Coming Virginia solo at Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. It seems that from then on, Hackett was determined to shake off the "new Bix" tag, and always proclaimed that he was a Louis [Armstrong] man.