Fountain, Pete
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Name (Latin)
Fountain, Pete
Other forms of name
Fountain, Peter Dewey, Jr
Date of birth
1930-07-03
Date of death
2016-08-06
Place of birth
New Orleans (La.)
Place of death
New Orleans (La.)
Field of activity
Jazz Dixieland music
Associate group
New Orleans All Stars (Musical group : Pete Fountain)
Occupation
Clarinetists Jazz musicians
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- New Orleans, 1985:t.p. (Pete Fountain)
- LC data base, 9/19/85(hdg.: Fountain, Pete; usage: Pete Fountain)
- Grove music online, Oct. 17, 2006:Jazz (Fountain, Pete(r Dewey, Jr.); b. July 3, 1930, New Orleans; American clarinetist)
- New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 8, 2016(in obituary published Aug. 6: Pete Fountain; b. Peter Dewey Fountain Jr., July 3, 1930, New Orleans; d. there Saturday [Aug. 6, 2016], aged 86; clarinetist who brought the traditional jazz of his native New Orleans to a national audience through frequent appearances on the Lawrence Welk and Johnny Carson television shows; the appeal of his high-spirited brand of Dixieland stretched far beyond New Orleans)