Pete Fountain (born Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr., July 3, 1930), is a world-renowned American clarinetist based in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He has played jazz, Dixieland, Pop Jazz, Honky-Tonk Jazz, Pop, and Creole music.
Early life and education
His name was originally Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr., was born on White Street, between Dumaine and St. Ann, in a small Creole cottage style frame house. His father later changed his own name to Peter Dewey Fountain, and Junior followed suit.
He started playing clarinet as a child at McDonogh 28. As a child, young Pete was very sickly, frequently battling respiratory infections due to weakened lungs. He was given expensive medication but it proved to be not very effective. During a pharmacy visit, Pete's father began a discussion with a neighborhood doctor who was also there shopping and talked with him about his son's condition. The doctor agreed to see the boy the following day. After a short exam, the doctor confirmed the weak lung condition and advised the father to try an unorthodox treatment: purchase the child a musical instrument, anything he has to blow into. The same day, they went to a local music store and, given his choice of instruments, Pete chose the clarinet (after first wanting the drums, which his father declined per the doctor's orders). At first, Pete was unable to produce a sound from the instrument, but he continued to practice and eventually not only made sounds and eventually music, but greatly improved the health of his lungs.
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"I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets."
"You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician."
"If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid."
"There will never be another like him. He was loved by trumpet players all over the world."
"He was one of the best trumpet players all around the world. He had everything -- technique, stamina, education."
"What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy."
"There was no question about doing it. We had a meeting and everybody wanted to march."
"I think maybe it was just depression about all the stuff that happened. All the things we lost. All the disruption. And then you look around and see all the stuff still messed up. It just sort of grinds you down."
"I spent four hours at the hospital, they ran all the blood tests, all the other ones, and didn't find anything. I still don't know what it was. I feel better, but not back to normal."
"We found a bracelet and a ring. Everything else was gone. All the things I wanted to leave to my kids."
Pete Fountain
ALBUMS
- Pete's Beat released: 2008
- Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland: Pete Fountain released: 2001
- Big Band Blues released: 2001
- Dixieland Classics released: 1999
- Dixieland King released: 1998
- Dixieland Classics released: 1998
- I Got Rhythm released: 1997
- A Touch of Class released: 1997
- New Orleans All Stars released: 1997
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? released: 1996
- The Best of Pete Fountain released: 1996
- Swingin' Blues released: 1995
- Cheek to Cheek released: 1993
- Super Jazz I released: 1990
- Dixieland released: 1987
- Standing Room Only released: 1965
- Blockbustin' Dixie released: 1961
- Music From Dixie released: 1961
- Pete Fountain Salutes the Great Clarinetists released: 1960
- Pete Fountain's New Orleans released: 1959
- Candy Clarinet: Merry Christmas From Pete Fountain released:
- Dixieland released:
- Smooth and Mellow released:
- Brenda and Pete: For the First Time / Johnny One Time released:
- Mr. New Orleans Pete Fountain and His Mardi Gras Strutters released:
Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland: Pete Fountain
Released 2001- Mahogany Hall Stomp
- Tin Roof Blues
- My Inspiration
- Bye-Bye, Bill Bailey
- High Society
- Struttin' With Some Barbecue
- Dixie Jubilee
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
- The Second Line
- Basin Street Blues
- The Darktown Strutters' Ball
- Marching 'Round the Mountain
- Over the Waves
- Careless Love
- Walking Through New Orleans
- Sugar Bowl Parade
- Farewell Blues
- Washington and Lee Swing
- Walking Through New Orleans
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Released 1996- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
- When the Saints Go Marchin' In
- Just a Closer Walk With Thee
- Sweethearts on Parade
- When It's Sleepytime Down South
- Tin Roof Blues
- Aunt Hagar's Blues
- Beale Street Blues
- Wabash Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Wang Wang Blues
- I've Found a New Baby
- Ja Da
- Tiger Rag
- Someday Sweetheart
- The Birth of the Blues
- Dear Old Southland
- That da da Strain
- At the Jazz Band Ball
- Jazz Me Blues
The Best of Pete Fountain
Released 1996- While We Danced at the Mardi Gras
- A Closer Walk
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
- Fascination Medley: Fascination; Basin Street Blues; Tin Roof Blues; 'Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
- China Boy (Go Sleep)
- Bye Bye Bill Bailey
- Lazy River
- Yes Indeed
- High Society
- Stranger on the Shore
- Over the Waves
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You
- My Blue Heaven
- Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
- For Pete's Sake
- When the Saints Come Marching in March
- St. Louis Blues
- When My Baby Smiles at Me
- Shrimp Boats
- Indiana (Back Home in Indiana)
Smooth and Mellow
- A Closer Walk
- Maria Elena
- My Blue Heaven
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
- Blue Skies
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
- Moonglow
- Just One of Those Things
- Petite Fleur
- Fascination Medly
- High Society
- Stranger on the Shore
- Careless Love
- Indiana
- Hello Dolly!
- Over the Waves
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- When My Baby Smiles at Me
- Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
- Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
- It's Been a Long, Long Time
- The Darktown Strutters' Ball
- Up a Lazy River
Brenda and Pete: For the First Time / Johnny One Time
- Cabaret
- There's a Kind of Hush
- Basin Street Blues
- Windy
- Night and Day
- One of Those Songs
- Mood Indigo
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- The 59 Th Street Bridge Song
- Anything Goes
- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
- Johnny One Time
- Traces
- If You Go Away
- Bring Me Sunshine
- Help Yourself
- Let It Be Me
- For Once in My Life
- This Girl's in Love With You
- Matelot
- The Letter
- Walk Away (Warum Nur Warum)
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Eminem, Dr. Dre ... "Salute to New Orleans" and 40th Anniversary of Peanuts' characters, featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw & Irma Thomas1989 ... "From Paris to the Paris of America" with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and Al Hirt1977 ... .
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Eminem, Dr. Dre ... "Salute to New Orleans" and 40th Anniversary of Peanuts' characters, featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw & Irma Thomas1989 ... "From Paris to the Paris of America" with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and Al Hirt1977 ... .
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Eminem, Dr. Dre ... "Salute to New Orleans" and 40th Anniversary of Peanuts' characters, featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw & Irma Thomas1989 ... "From Paris to the Paris of America" with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and Al Hirt1977 ... .
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.@KendrickLamar. Super Bowl LIX. New Orleans. February 2025 ... Meet me in New Orleans ... U2, The Blues Brothers, James Brown, ZZ Top, Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw and Irma Thomas, are among those who have performed Super Bowl halftime shows in New Orleans ... .
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.@KendrickLamar. Super Bowl LIX. New Orleans. February 2025 ... Meet me in New Orleans ... U2, The Blues Brothers, James Brown, ZZ Top, Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw and Irma Thomas, are among those who have performed Super Bowl halftime shows in New Orleans ... .
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.@KendrickLamar. Super Bowl LIX. New Orleans. February 2025 ... Meet me in New Orleans ... U2, The Blues Brothers, James Brown, ZZ Top, Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw and Irma Thomas, are among those who have performed Super Bowl halftime shows in New Orleans ... .
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4, 2007 ... This year is the 11th time the Super Bowl has been held in New Orleans, and five of those halftime shows included New Orleans jazz trumpeter Al Hirt or New Orleans jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain, both of them fine players, both of them White.
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Full list of every halftime performer in Super Bowl history: Kendrick Lamar, Beyonce, Rihanna, Prince ...
Eminem, Dr. Dre ... "Salute to New Orleans" and 40th Anniversary of Peanuts' characters, featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw & Irma Thomas1989 ... "From Paris to the Paris of America" with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and Al Hirt1977 ... .
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Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl LIX halftime show: 22-time Grammy winner will take stage in New Orleans
.@KendrickLamar. Super Bowl LIX. New Orleans. February 2025 ... Meet me in New Orleans ... U2, The Blues Brothers, James Brown, ZZ Top, Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw and Irma Thomas, are among those who have performed Super Bowl halftime shows in New Orleans ... .
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Full list of every Super Bowl halftime performer in history: Kendrick Lamar, Beyonce, Rihanna, Prince ...
Eminem, Dr. Dre ... "Salute to New Orleans" and 40th Anniversary of Peanuts' characters, featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw & Irma Thomas1989 ... "From Paris to the Paris of America" with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and Al Hirt1977 ... .
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Eminem, Dr. Dre ... "Salute to New Orleans" and 40th Anniversary of Peanuts' characters, featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw & Irma Thomas1989 ... "From Paris to the Paris of America" with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and Al Hirt1977 ... .
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