Dixieland Jazz - Pete Fountain Discography: May 2009

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Around the World for Lovers - Verve Records

Around the World for Lovers (Various Artists)
Featuring Pete Fountain

2007 - Verve Records

Track Listing:
1. A Foggy Day - Louis Armstrong
2. April In Paris - Sarah Vaughn
3. A Nightengale Sang In Berkeley Square - Anita O'day
4. Corcovado - Antonio Carlos Jobim
5. Dear Old Stockholm - Stan Getz
6. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? - Pete Fountain
7. I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Arthur Prysock
8. Isfahan - Joe Henderson
9. Non-Stop To Brazil - Astrud Gilberto
10. When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano - Carmen McRae
11. Manhattan - Blossom Dearie

Monday, May 25, 2009

Dr. John - Goin' Back To New Orleans - Warner Bros.

Dr. John - Goin' Back To New Orleans
featuring Pete Fountain

1992 - Warner Bros

Tracks:
01. Litanie des Saints
02. Careless Love
03. My Indian Red
04. Milenburg Joys
05. I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say
06. Basin Street Blues (featuring Pete Fountain)
07. Didn't He Ramble
08. Do You Call That a Buddy?
09. How Come My Dog Don't Bark When You Come 'Round
10. Good Night, Irene
11. Fess Up
12. Since I Fell For You
13. I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You
14. Cabbage Head
15. Goin' Home Tomorrow
16. Blue Monday
17. Scald Dog
18. Goin' Back to New Orleans

Line Up:
Dr. John (vocals, guitar, piano, organ)
Danny Barker (guitar, banjo)
Tommy Moran (guitar)
Pete Fountain (clarinet)

Charles Neville, Herb Hardesty, Eric Traub, Amadee Castenell, Frederick Kemp (Tenor Saxophones)

Alvin "Red" Tyler, Roger Lewis (Baritone Saxophones)

Al Hirt, Jamil Sharif, Charlie Miller, Umar Sharif, Clyde Kerr,Jr. (Trumpets)

Bruce Hammond (trombone)
Kirk Joseph (tuba)
David Barard, Chris Severin (bass)
Freddy Staehle (drums)

Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, Chief "Smiley" Ricks, Cyril Neville, Charles Neville (Percussion)

Shirley Goodman, Stephanie Whitfield, Connie Fitch, Tara Janelle, Chuck Carbo (Background Vocals)

The Neville Brothers: Art Neville, Aaron Neville, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville (Vocals)

Liner Notes:
Goin' Back traces a century of Crescent City musical history, starting in the mid-19th century with Louis Moreau Gottschalk, a classical composer influenced by the African chants and slave dances he witnessed in New Orleans' Congo Square. With support from some of the city's most prominent musical pioneers (including Danny Barker, Pete Fountain, and the Neville Brothers), Dr. John breathes new life into the work of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, James Booker, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and Huey Piano Smith. From early jazz to junkie blues, Goin' Back covers it all, ranging from well-trod standards ("Basin Street Blues," "Careless Love") to otherwise forgotten jewels ("I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say," "How Come My Dog Don't Bark"). What's most remarkable is how utterly alive and timeless it sounds. - Keith Moerer

Sunday, May 17, 2009

That's A Plenty by Pete Fountain - K-Tel

That's A Plenty
by Pete Fountain

2009 - K-Tel Records

Tracks:
1. That's A Plenty
2. Sensation Rag (Live Version)
3. In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree (Live Version)
4. Up A Lazy River
5. Sunset In Paradise
6. Bayou Blues
7. Margie
8. High Society
9. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
10. Mahogany Hall Stomp
11. Farewell Blues
12. When The Saints Go Marching In

Liner Notes:

This is another one of those download only release on Amazon, old tunes from the Phil Zito, Tony Almerico, Sharkey Bonano, Santo Pecora and George Girard days. These songs seem to get repackaged over and over, same songs.

Bugle Call Rag & Other Favorites (Digitally Remastered) - EMG

Bugle Call Rag & Other Favorites (Digitally Remastered)
by Pete Fountain

2009 - Essential Media Group LLC

Tracks:
1. Margie
2. Going Home
3. South Rampart Street Parade
4. That's A Plenty
5. Jazz Me Blues
6. Farewell Blues
7. Bugle Call Rag
8. High Society
9. When The Saints Go Marching In
10. Lazy River
11. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise

Liner Notes:

This is one of those download only release on Amazon, old tunes from the Phil Zito, Tony Almerico, Sharkey Bonano, Santo Pecora and George Girard days. These songs seem to get repackaged over and over, same songs.

Pete's Bio

Peter Dewey Fountain, Jr. was born July 3, 1930 in New Orleans, the cradle of American music, Jazz. He was a skinny kid who spent too much time hanging around the front stoop of the Top Hat Dance Hall near his home. The Top Hat was a stronghold of Dixieland Jazz and Jazz already had a strong hold on Pete Fountain. But, oh the sounds! This was music straight from the soul. Sounds that would never be written in stone, that would always be brand new because they were purely personal. Pete heard all the greats in New Orleans and he knew he wanted to play Jazz.

After endless hours of practicing and listening to the recordings of Benny Goodman and Irving Fazola, the personal sound of Pete Fountain began to emerge and it was "Fat." By the time Pete was 16, he had already gained a reputation on the street, Bourbon Street.

Through these formative years of his musical training, Pete performed with several sensational bands. One such band was the Junior Dixieland Band which performed in the famous Parisian Room-often performing for legendary jazz men. It was a heady time of life and Pete Fountain was savoring every moment.

A few years later Pete joined Phil Zito's International Dixieland Express. They were playing the El Morocco on the street. It was there he met Beverly. She had decided very young to marry a musician and Pete had decided very young to be a musician.

Pete was performing with some of the best known jazz bands in the country--The Basin Street Six, The Dukes of Dixieland, Al Hirt--and it was great.

Until 1956...Be-Bop and Rock & Roll were the hot new sounds, and the music that Pete loved could not provide him or anybody else with a living. Jazz, in its own birthplace New Orleans, was definitely asleep. He gave up music. He had no choice. With a wife and three small children to support, music was a luxury he could not afford.

All he really wanted to do was play music. All he needed was a band, a bandstand and a place to play.

In 1957, Lawrence Welk, host of the nation's most popular television program, wanted Pete on the show, and that kind of opportunity only comes once in a lifetime. For two years, Pete was the most famous Jazz musician on television. Pete Fountain became a household name and New Orleans Jazz made a comeback that has never faded.

After two years in California, Pete came home to New Orleans. He had learned what every New Orleanian has to accept as a fact of life. you can leave New Orleans, but it never leaves you. The cuisine, the sights and the sounds.

Pete immediately opened his own jazz club in the heart of the French Quarter. His national fame and fans followed him to New Orleans which allowed Pete's club to expand, through the past 34 years, into the largest jazz club in the city.

Pete has always been considered an ambassador of New Orleans Jazz as he performs his music on guest appearances on network television and specials. Some of the highlights have been such classics as the Ed Sullivan, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Andy Williams specials. More recently his credits include A Close up of Pete Fountain, Super Bowl Saturday Night and the National Memorial Day Concert. He also performed 59 times on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show."

Pete has performed at four U.S. State Dinners by command performance for four Presidents of the United States. He has also performed for Pope John Paul II at the New Orleans Papal Mass with an attendance of over 400,000 people.

During Pete's career, he has recorded 56 albums and has been a featured performer on 44 additional albums for a total of 100 recordings. Three of Pete's albums have gone gold, "Pete Fountain's New Orleans," "The Blues," and "Mr. New Orleans." He also received a gold record for his hit single "Just A Closer Walk With Thee."

Through Pete's career he has received numerous awards and honors including a Doctorate of Music from the College of Santa Fe; he was voted the #1 Jazz Clarinetist for 13 consecutive years in the Playboy Readers Poll; he was King of Bacchus; he received an Emmy for the 1990 Super Bowl Pre-Game Music; and he was awarded the 1993 Louisiana Legends Award.

Pete has performed with music legends ranging from Louis Armstrong and Harry James to Harry Connick, Jr. Yet to this day his greatest thrill is taking the stage and performing the music he loves, watching as it works its irresistible magic on the audience. Straight to the soul.

Pete Fountain and his wife, Beverly, have three children and five grandchildren. He divides his DAYS between his family, various charitable organizations and his favorite fishing hole.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Around the World for Lovers - Verve Records

Monday, May 25, 2009

Dr. John - Goin' Back To New Orleans - Warner Bros.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

That's A Plenty by Pete Fountain - K-Tel

Bugle Call Rag & Other Favorites (Digitally Remastered) - EMG

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