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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1928
- Active to
- 2003
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Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Fontana learned jazz music from his father Collie, a saxophonist and violin player, and first performed with his father's band while in high school. Fontana attended the school known today as University of Louisiana Monroe for two years. He then transferred to Louisiana State University, receiving his degree in Music Education in 1950. His first break into the professional jazz scene came the following year, when in 1951 he was hired to stand in for one of Woody Herman
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carl
- Family name
- Fontana
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Monroe
- Place of death
- Las Vegas
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Educated at
- Louisiana State University
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trombone
- Record label
- Concord Records
- Image
- Carl Fontana.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1928-07-18
- date of death
- 2003-10-09
- Commons category
- Carl Fontana
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
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