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Buy Now	The Best of Pete Fountain (more) »rank: 9638 by: Pete Fountain : :Though clarinetist Pete Fountain has long been a fixture on the New Orleans jazz scene, his greatest notoriety came from his 1957-1959 nationally televised appearances with the Lawrence Welk orchestra leading a small group playing traditional jazz. Fountain, a Benny Goodman disciple who plays the old standards with indefatigable fervor, is a fixture on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, leading the early morning parade down St. Charles Avenue with his 'Half Fast' marching club. As Fountain walks, he plays the numbers on this record that comprise his standard repertoire--'While We Danced at the Mardi Gras,' 'Do You Know What It Means to ...	Buy Now	Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland (more) »rank: 8101 by: Pete Fountain : :Though clarinetist Pete Fountain has long been a fixture on the New Orleans jazz scene, his greatest notoriety came from his 1957-1959 nationally televised appearances with the Lawrence Welk orchestra leading a small group playing traditional jazz. Fountain, a Benny Goodman disciple who plays the old standards with indefatigable fervor, is a fixture on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, leading the early morning parade down St. Charles Avenue with his 'Half Fast' marching club. As Fountain walks, he plays the numbers on this record that comprise his standard repertoire--'While We Danced at the Mardi Gras,' 'Do You Know What It Means to ...
Buy Now	Swingin' Blues (more) »rank: 11892 by: Pete Fountain : :Though clarinetist Pete Fountain has long been a fixture on the New Orleans jazz scene, his greatest notoriety came from his 1957-1959 nationally televised appearances with the Lawrence Welk orchestra leading a small group playing traditional jazz. Fountain, a Benny Goodman disciple who plays the old standards with indefatigable fervor, is a fixture on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, leading the early morning parade down St. Charles Avenue with his 'Half Fast' marching club. As Fountain walks, he plays the numbers on this record that comprise his standard repertoire--'While We Danced at the Mardi Gras,' 'Do You Know What It Means to ...	Buy Now	Big Band Blues (more) »rank: 53034 by: Pete Fountain & the New Lawrence Welk Orchestra : :Though clarinetist Pete Fountain has long been a fixture on the New Orleans jazz scene, his greatest notoriety came from his 1957-1959 nationally televised appearances with the Lawrence Welk orchestra leading a small group playing traditional jazz. Fountain, a Benny Goodman disciple who plays the old standards with indefatigable fervor, is a fixture on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, leading the early morning parade down St. Charles Avenue with his 'Half Fast' marching club. As Fountain walks, he plays the numbers on this record that comprise his standard repertoire--'While We Danced at the Mardi Gras,' 'Do You Know What It Means to ...
Buy Now	Pete Fountain's New Orleans (more) »rank: 90963 by: Pete Fountain : :The vastly popular clarinetist and New Orleans stalwart Pete Fountain recorded this album just after the end of his hugely popular two-year stint on Lawrence Welk's Sunday-evening television show. He quit to return to more jazz-based playing. This 1959 quartet album, with Stan Wrightsman on piano, followed Welk's show, with The Blues just behind--and they were both nationwide hits. Long before, Fountain had soaked up the life of New Orleans, the steamy cradle of jazz. The tunes here are evergeens for the first days of jazz associated with New Orleans greats, particularly Louis Armstrong. With unmistakable tone, richness, and poise in his clarinet ...	Buy Now	ONXRT - Live From The Archives - Volume 8 (more) »rank: 170004 from: XRT Studios : :
Buy Now	Pete's Beat (more) »rank: 157559 by: Pete Fountain : :	Buy Now	Dixieland Classics, Vol. 1 (more) »rank: 119346 by: Pete Fountain : :
Buy Now	Super Jazz (more) »rank: 17965 by: Al Hirt, Pete Fountain : :	Buy Now	King of New Orleans Jazz (more) »rank: 179571 by: Pete Fountain :Album Description:The Basin Street Six and The Dukes Of Dixieland. Immensely popular recording artist in the 1960s with three gold albums to his credit in that decade and over 90 LP recordings over the span of his career. This album features New Orleans Jazz at it's finest, from this musician's 'pre-commercial' period. Historic 1950s recordings from New Orleans last golden era. Features his earliest recordings from 1950 while still a member of The Basin Street Six, coupled with some of his first recordings as a leader backed by The New Orleans All-Stars in 1957. Features legendary trumpet players George Girard & Buck Clayton, ...