Michael Hackett Sextet

media release: Michael Hackett, trumpet; Clay Lyons, alto - Travis Cooke, trombone - Chris Rottmayer, piano - Michael Brenneis, drums - Nick Moran

Dr. Hackett has performed extensively with touring entertainers and pops orchestras across the country backing up artists such as Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, and Perry Como. His playing has been featured in many national television and radio commercials, the movie sound track to “The Aviator,” and many commercially available recordings, including those with Scott Whitfield’s Jazz Orchestra East, three recordings with The Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, and “Basically Baker: the Music of David Baker.”