Pete Fountain
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- New Orleans
- A closer walk
- Pete's Beat
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Pete Fountain (born Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr.; July 3, 1930 – August 6, 2016) was an American jazz clarinetist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He played in various traditional and contemporary genres of jazz, such as Dixieland, pop jazz, honky-tonk jazz, as well as pop, and Creole music. Pierre Dewey Fountain, Jr., was born on White Street, in New Orleans, between Dumaine and St. Ann, in a small Creole cottage-style frame house. Pete was the great grandson of Francois Fontaine who was born
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Orleans
- Place of death
- New Orleans
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- clarinet
- Record label
- Coral
- Image
- PeteFountain2006.jpg
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- Pete Fountain
- date of birth
- 1930-07-03
- date of death
- 2016-08-06
- start of work period
- 2013-00-00
- member of
- Dukes of Dixieland
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