Even while hospitalized last summer after years of declining health, a frail Pete Fountain still hoped to recover in time for Mardi Gras. The New Orleans jazz clarinet legend longed to spend a final ...

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New Orleans music legend Pete Fountain was laid to rest Wednesday. The Clarinetist died on Aug. 6 at the age of 86. A funeral mass inside St. Louis Cathedral was standing room only as people gathered ...

Legendary New Orleans musician, Bourbon Street club owner, and ambassador for the city Pete Fountain turns 84 years old today. Born Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr., on July 3, 1930 in New Orleans, he ...

NEW ORLEANS — Pete Fountain’s boyhood home is one step closer to gaining an official historic designation. Wednesday, the New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission considered a request to ...

One of the highlights of every Mardi Gras, Pete Fountain’s Half-Fast Walking Club celebrates a special anniversary this year. Members of the club, founded in 1961, will make their 60th walk through ...

Al Hirt’s trumpet and Pete Fountain’s clarinet created the soundtrack of 1960s Bourbon Street. Both Hirt and Fountain were New Orleans’ natives who were huge national successes on radio and television ...

Funeral services for beloved New Orleans music legend Pete Fountain, including what is expected to be a huge jazz funeral and second line, will be held Aug. 17, his manager Benny Harrell said Monday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Clarinetist Pete Fountain, whose recording of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" became the unofficial anthem for traditional New Orleans jazz, has died. He was 86. Fountain's ...

Pete Fountain has reached that enviable stage at which the compilers of catalogues for use in record shops are uncertain whether to list him under “jazz" or in the “popular" category. In fact, Pete's ...

Pete Fountain, the goateed clarinetist who became a global ambassador of New Orleans jazz with his flawlessly slippery technique and joyful sound, died Saturday of heart failure while in hospice care ...

Pete Fountain’s home in nearby Bay St. Louis, Miss., told his life story — gold albums, pictures posing with four presidents, thank-you notes from Frank Sinatra, and beloved clarinets and other ...