Pete Fountain
Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr., known professionally as Pete Fountain, born July 3,
1930, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, died August 6, 2016, in New
Orleans, Louisiana, United States, was an American jazz clarinetist. Fountain
took up the clarinet as a child on a doctor's recommendation to strengthen his
lungs. Fountain co-founded the Basin Street Six in 1950, played with the Dukes
of Dixieland in Chicago in 1954, and performed with Al Hirt at Pier 600.
Fountain achieved national prominence joining the Lawrence Welk Orchestra in
1957, performing solos on The Lawrence Welk...
Basin Street BluesPete Fountain
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orléans
2:09
Tin Roof BluesLouis Armstrong, Pete Fountain, Morty Corb, Jack Sperling and Stan Wrightsman
While We Danced at the Mardi GrasPete Fountain
Pete Fountain's New Orleans
2:23
Bugle Call RagPete Fountain
High Society
1:57
Ain't She SweetPete Fountain
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orléans
5:48
Farewell BluesPete Fountain
High Society
