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  • N.O. music legend Pete Fountain dies at 86

    08/06/2016 12:05:09 PM PDT · by wardamneagle · 34 replies
    Pete Fountain, the famed New Orleans jazz clarinetist whose 60-year career was marked by performances for presidents and a pope, making him an international ambassador for the music and culture of his hometown, has died. He was 86. http://www.wwltv.com/mb/news/local/no-music-legend-pete-fountain-dies-at-86/289509950
  • Pete Fountain, New Orleans' clarinet-playing musical ambassador, dies at 86

    08/06/2016 11:50:04 AM PDT · by BBell · 34 replies
    NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 8/6/16 | John Pope, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
    Pete Fountain, whose easygoing, apparently effortless style on the clarinet and his perpetually sunny disposition made him a natural ambassador for New Orleans, died Saturday in New Orleans. He was 86. Other details were not available. Mr. Fountain, who was in hospice care, had been in poor health in recent years, suffering a stroke and undergoing heart surgery.Unlike other musicians whose lives were marked by marital strife, substance abuse and run-ins with the law, Mr. Fountain lived a blissful existence with Beverly Fountain, his wife of 64 years, and a sizable number of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A regular on...