tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49542028298869088592024-03-12T21:17:37.413-04:00Dixieland Jazz - Pete Fountain DiscographyWelcome to my blog. My goal is to list the music and biography of Pete Fountain, one of my favorite musicians. I have an extensive collection and will be posting them as I have time. From his early days with Phil Zito, Al Hirt, Santo Pecroa, Sharkey Bonano, Jack Delaney, Monk Hazel, Tony Almerico, Lawrence Welk, his solo career on Coral, MCA, Ranwood up to today, it is listed here. Comments or suggestions are appreciated.David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.comBlogger357125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-72089669586395303492012-07-02T12:36:00.000-04:002012-07-04T12:51:18.557-04:00Pete Fountain's 82nd Birthday - News<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Pete Fountain, Jazz Clarinetist, was born on July 3, 1930 in New Orleans. He has entertained us for decades and we all wish him the best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">We wish Pete a happy 82nd birthday, and may he continue to "toot" and make music for many more years.<br /><br />Pete's Baby Photo</span>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-10988405134869218882012-06-15T18:00:00.000-04:002012-07-04T12:47:58.095-04:00Pete Fountain at New Orleans Jazz Fest - News<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pete Fountain took the stage at New Orleans Jazz Fest on Sunday afternoon as any legend should - supported by a bevy of talented musicians, there to let the 81-year-old shine. Fountain, a.k.a "Mr. New Orleans," is considered by many to be the ambassador of Dixieland Jazz. Also a fixture during Carnival season, Fountain's "Half-Fast Walking Club" has been leading the downtown parade route on Mardi Gras since 1960.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">by his great-granddaughter Isabella singing, "What a Wonderful World." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fans were pouring out the sides of the tent as the crowd chanted, "Let's go, Pete!" to greet the artist with a standing ovation. Smart phones lined the stage to snap his image. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Mr. Music, Mr. Pete Fountain," his emcee said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Yeah Pete!" The crowd responded. In the middle of "Lazy River" the legend leaned on a stool to his right for support, but his smile did not fade. He enraptured the crowd during "Basin Street Blues." The air smelled like the recognizable Jazz Fest triumvirate of trampled grass, sweat and beer. A seated patron shushed chatter in the back row.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To the left of the stage, couples embraced in dance on a wooden surface reserved for the purpose. Fountain invited his great-granddaughter, Isabella, to the stage for an adorable rendition of "It's a Wonderful World." After a rousing response from fans, and a kiss for her great-grandfather, like any good diva, Isabella was wisked off stage and into the crowd. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The second line, led by three enthusiastic umbrella carriers, picked up steam. A man with a thick white beard, high socks and a tag that read "free hugs" did a robot dance across the tent. As Fountain served his trademark "A Walk with Thee," the second line still was in full swing, but the majority of the crowd sat calmly and respectfully. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For a moment, the reserved tent seemed like the polar opposite of any Springsteen-rock induced mayhem transpiring across the Fair Grounds at the Acura Stage. Then, a breeze of smoke blew by, and it was clear that although vibes may be diverse, some Fest fans are on the same party page. </span></div>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-33999027042008033262012-02-12T12:01:00.005-05:002012-02-12T12:08:55.809-05:00News: Al Hirt and Pete Fountain<p><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Al Hirt and Pete Fountain</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Times-Picayune Covers 175 Years of New Orleans History</span></span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></P><br /><div align="left"></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0tRbjijRFx4CnNCcW8N23PvrR39XYK-mI9uLgVatQ4VwxXC5O5wNYCkOu49tp71pdOKHTcw7SEkDmeC3hpWqMcNEziEG_Gve42NPlPnG8WNIV5H1QTCul9P5FRzA5Aj38mq-bM-J8kaL/s1600/peteJumbo.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 328px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708295794244721634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0tRbjijRFx4CnNCcW8N23PvrR39XYK-mI9uLgVatQ4VwxXC5O5wNYCkOu49tp71pdOKHTcw7SEkDmeC3hpWqMcNEziEG_Gve42NPlPnG8WNIV5H1QTCul9P5FRzA5Aj38mq-bM-J8kaL/s400/peteJumbo.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Trumpeter Al Hirt and clarinetist Pete Fountain, one bearded, the other bald, personified good-time New Orleans jazz for decades. Friends and frequent collaborators, they released popular recordings, appeared on national TV and presided over Bourbon Street nightclubs bearing their names.<br /><br />Nicknamed "Jumbo," Hirt embodied the city’s rollicking spirit in his performances and voracious appetites. From 1962 to 1983, he operated the Al Hirt Club on Bourbon. He recorded more than 50 albums. He won a Grammy Award in 1964 for his recording of the Allen Toussaint-penned instrumental "Java," which ascended to No. 4 on the pop charts. Other hits included "Sugar Lips" and "Cotton Candy."<br /><br />He briefly hosted his own TV show on CBS. He performed for six presidents, for Princess Grace in Monaco, and for Pope John Paul II at the University of New Orleans in 1987.<br /><br />His artistic success contrasted with turbulence in other areas of his life. Three of his four marriages failed, and unsuccessful business deals in the 1970s and ’80s led to lawsuits. He died of liver failure in 1999 at age 76.<br /><br />The son of a Dixie beer truck driver, Fountain emerged as the most famous ambassador of traditional Dixieland jazz. In the late 1950s, two years as the featured soloist on "The Lawrence Welk Show" made him a star. The 1959 album "Pete Fountain’s New Orleans" contains what is arguably the definitive "A Closer Walk," marked by his impeccably rich clarinet tone. His 59 appearances on "The Tonight Show" during the Johnny Carson era fueled six-figure sales of his albums.<br /><br />Indicative of his unofficial status as "Mr. New Orleans," Fountain has navigated the downtown parade route at the head of his Half-Fast Walking Club on nearly every Mardi Gras morning since 1960.<br /><br />Also in 1960, he opened his first Bourbon Street nightclub. From 1977 to 2003, he was the featured act at another club in the Hilton Riverside. After closing it, he accepted a regular gig at a casino near his 10,000-square-foot weekend home in Bay St. Louis, Miss.<br /><br />Hurricane Katrina’s tidal surge obliterated that home and its collection of memorabilia. Two strokes suffered since the storm have made speaking difficult for him. But Fountain can still "toot" on the clarinet, and, at 81, plans to continue as long as he is able.<br /><br /><a href="http://connect.nola.com/user/kspera/index.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune</span> </a><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span></div>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-7572886441948108942011-11-24T12:03:00.005-05:002011-11-24T12:11:51.629-05:00Dixieland Essentials - Stardust Records<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;"></span></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;">Dixieland Essentials</span></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdBUsgDVa4_UY68imaO48_NhnsHdT36wCF8UghdVvukVKRc0oYBr8rJKUd1H6Lfaqfyw10XvknsWx0I0YhQrQb8M2YDHhycHlp_kWrpRV9DyT52o-fEZHPg2A5jwGylCNh51S0ddqXjwH7/s1600/front.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678609144416056578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdBUsgDVa4_UY68imaO48_NhnsHdT36wCF8UghdVvukVKRc0oYBr8rJKUd1H6Lfaqfyw10XvknsWx0I0YhQrQb8M2YDHhycHlp_kWrpRV9DyT52o-fEZHPg2A5jwGylCNh51S0ddqXjwH7/s400/front.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">2011 - Stardust Records</span></p><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">01. Jazz Me Blues<br />02. Basin Street Blues<br />03. Struttin' With Some Barbecue<br />04. Muskrat Ramble<br />05. When The Saints Go Marching In<br />06. St. James Infirmary<br />07. Bourbon Street Parade<br />08. Farewell Blues<br />09. At The Jazz Band Ball<br />10. Tin Roof Blues<br />11. South Rampart Street Parade<br />12. Milenberg Joys<br />13. Washboard Blues<br />14. Wabash Blues<br />15. Someday Sweetheart<br />16. When It's Sleepy Time Down South<br />17. Beale Street Blues<br />18. Ballin' The Jack<br />19. I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues<br />20. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate<br />21. That's A Plenty<br />22. Dipper Mouth Blues<br />23. Just A Closer Walk With Thee<br />24. St. Louis Blues<br />25. I've Found A New Baby<br />26. Panama<br />27. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans<br />28. Black And Blue<br />29. Careless Love<br />30. Wang Wang Blues</span></strong></span></p><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>Liner Notes:</em></strong></span> <br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Dixieland from New Orleans: Naturally that's where it all started, back before the turn of the century. New Orleans - where the old time marching jazz came into being: Where Ragtime: Barrel House, old and present day Dixieland all originated: And the best Dixieland is still coming from this famous bend in the Mississippi.<br /><br />This is yet another MP3 only download compilation from various times in Pete's long career. 30 tracks, great sound quality . </span></p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-33514848614122122762011-11-24T11:55:00.003-05:002011-11-24T12:02:38.524-05:00Crazy - Classic Records<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#990000;"><strong>Crazy</strong></span><br /></div><br /><p align="center"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbEi2aqrvXodpk6-q6Mfiaj6japmV62TGzy3ehaQFnF2pboJjYDzQiDyWfczqNgxwAK9UWvnzdDN-Ago61GL7bMdm360kwQDraLSab8rNEFvIbBi6L0aPFRW_5oCbld7umdZUpaPheGq6X/s1600/front.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678607045634994818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbEi2aqrvXodpk6-q6Mfiaj6japmV62TGzy3ehaQFnF2pboJjYDzQiDyWfczqNgxwAK9UWvnzdDN-Ago61GL7bMdm360kwQDraLSab8rNEFvIbBi6L0aPFRW_5oCbld7umdZUpaPheGq6X/s400/front.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />2011 - Classic Records </span></p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>01. Muskrat Ramble<br />02. Paradise<br />03. Running Wild<br />04. Wolverine Blues<br />05. Your Cheatin' Heart<br />06. Amazing Grace<br />07. Basin Street Blues<br />08. Crazy<br />09. Georgia<br />10. I Can't Stop Loving You<br />11. It Had to Be You<br />12. Jazz Me Blues<br />13. Just A Closer Walk With Thee<br />14. Lazy River<br />15. Marie</strong><br /></span><br /><em><strong>Liner Notes:</strong></em><br /><br />Dixieland from New Orleans: Naturally that's where it all started, back before the turn of the century. New Orleans - where the old time marching jazz came into being: Where Ragtime: Barrel House, old and present day Dixieland all originated: And the best Dixieland is still coming from this famous bend in the Mississippi.<br /><br />This is yet another MP3 only download compilation from various times in Pete's long career. Great sound quality .<br /></p></span>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-35913303095738023892011-07-03T19:57:00.003-04:002011-07-03T20:02:47.100-04:00Pete Fountain Birthday News - Memorabilia<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguJRK92rCBe09OdYvuQfN7mjiEo8NPPsWnovnMcC16jBy1gwJncKrCL9SMSFqPvXKCEuqIMVIrdtdCzDVETHLlfdG641_JDVh-jLtyOkR06C3W3PToYJa1DQ2zIAhRZaTopK8eIkptLlWC/s1600/1965.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 288px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625279570703422770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguJRK92rCBe09OdYvuQfN7mjiEo8NPPsWnovnMcC16jBy1gwJncKrCL9SMSFqPvXKCEuqIMVIrdtdCzDVETHLlfdG641_JDVh-jLtyOkR06C3W3PToYJa1DQ2zIAhRZaTopK8eIkptLlWC/s400/1965.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In the 1960s famed Dixieland jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain always closed his New Orleans club around the Independence Day holiday in order to celebrate his birthday on July 3. He and his wife, Beverly Lang Fountain, are shown here on one such excursion, outside the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Broadwater</span> Beach Hotel in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Biloxi</span>. The couple married in October 1951. Their son, Kevin Fountain, who submitted the photo, says he believes it was taken around 1965.<br /><br />Fountain was first mentioned in The Times-Picayune on March 4, 1948, when police reported the theft of two of his instruments, worth $250, from Warren <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Easton</span> High School.<br /><br />The following February his photo was featured in a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Werlein's</span> ad congratulating his Junior Dixie Land Jamboree Band for winning on the Horace <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heidt</span> Youth Opportunity Program, a national radio talent show which was a precursor to American Idol.<br /><br />John Kelly, The Times-Picayune Les Causeries <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">du</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Lundi</span> elected officers for the 1962-63 season Monday (May 14) at a gathering at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Gallier</span> Hall. Installed for the coming year are (from left, seated): Mrs. Frank B. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Delery</span>, president; Mrs. Lilian Lewis, first vice-president; and Miss Gladys Anne <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Renshaw</span>, second vice-president; (standing) Miss Adele <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Drouet</span>, reception chairman; Mrs. Richard <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Massie</span> Martin, treasurer; and Mrs. Paul <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Perret</span>, program chairman. May 16, 1962<br /><br />After evacuating for Hurricane Katrina, Fountain is back living in New Orleans, but his son reports he has been in East Jefferson General Hospital for the past three weeks. All his fans wish him well today on his 81st birthday.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"></span></span></span></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Courtesy</span> of John Kelly, The Times-Picayune NOLA.com<br />John Kelly can be reached a jkelly@timespicayune.com.</span></span> </div>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-9797717271240249342011-07-03T19:40:00.002-04:002012-07-04T12:33:17.716-04:00Pete Fountain's 81st Birthday - News<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Happy</span> <span style="color:#ff6600;">81st</span> <span style="color:#009900;">Birthday</span> <span style="color:#333399;">Pete!<br /></span></strong></span><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSuZCcAsy4fsJgXGptlVSlz-ByDv0VXxAJawt-00Kvh5UAsuudupREW8Wj6X01us8kZN8r1W80SEMsY74bI3y6a9M-sMzNrKdjqlK1JlOidoozudaVzZQXwnffV6-onPOb5z9zz9KdQFc/s1600/81bday.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 344px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 351px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625277479173859490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSuZCcAsy4fsJgXGptlVSlz-ByDv0VXxAJawt-00Kvh5UAsuudupREW8Wj6X01us8kZN8r1W80SEMsY74bI3y6a9M-sMzNrKdjqlK1JlOidoozudaVzZQXwnffV6-onPOb5z9zz9KdQFc/s400/81bday.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Pete Fountain, Jazz Clarinetist, was born on July 3, 1930 in New Orleans. He has entertained us for decades and we all wish him the best. </span><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7Kp5iJ4McBaf4_C-Kxq6KlJoHY_N_fJr4z2ZjigB8JOTvslLdujTiWbyxw0hr_WgMdCLqSgRtJ6C-FOIN_Im1piXgXYjRf76uJOkLx3Uka34t2p-LVBaNZrycAIlgV6S7O8_CMKMsRaV/s1600/pete2.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 297px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489395540055464482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7Kp5iJ4McBaf4_C-Kxq6KlJoHY_N_fJr4z2ZjigB8JOTvslLdujTiWbyxw0hr_WgMdCLqSgRtJ6C-FOIN_Im1piXgXYjRf76uJOkLx3Uka34t2p-LVBaNZrycAIlgV6S7O8_CMKMsRaV/s400/pete2.jpg" /></span></a></p><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We wish Pete a happy 81st birthday, and may he continue to "toot" and make music for many more years.<br /><br />Pete's Baby Photo<br /></span></p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-7438657024304222222011-05-16T13:21:00.003-04:002011-07-16T13:36:16.396-04:00Pete Fountain at Jazz Fest 2011 - News<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></span></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;color:#006600;"><strong>Pete Fountain fires up a second-line<br>at New Orleans Jazz Fest</span></strong></div><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgogz07r6CDTqMUvElMv7jSf7PleszKCcbahQ2KQDYJspDn8h8qGXKAryN1OlsZiyAFMUl0zuZJ6SWTaMtrQXSFBeEckdSdixC1lbhynR2rz04VOUQQJmq6ICL9wyYl_xrTMl-noMNRmGA/s1600/9538082-large.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 380px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 252px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630001771916257458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgogz07r6CDTqMUvElMv7jSf7PleszKCcbahQ2KQDYJspDn8h8qGXKAryN1OlsZiyAFMUl0zuZJ6SWTaMtrQXSFBeEckdSdixC1lbhynR2rz04VOUQQJmq6ICL9wyYl_xrTMl-noMNRmGA/s400/9538082-large.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">New Orleans legend Pete Fountain plays with his granddaughter,<br />Danielle Scheib on the washboard at the Economy Hall Tent during his set Sunday at Jazz Fest.</span></p><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Twenty minutes before Pete Fountain's Sunday afternoon set at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, Melissa Ensley of Slidell settled into a second-row seat, and turned to me with a question?<br /><br />"So are you a big Pete Fountain fan?"<br /><br />As I was about to reply, she pulled from her bag a vintage copy of Fountain's 1964 LP "Licorice Stick," showing off the fresh autograph on the cover. "My earliest musical memory was listening to this with my dad," she said. "We come to see Pete Fountain every year. We can't miss him."<br /><br />Clearly that was the collective feeling in the Economy Hall tent, where people packed the aisles 10 deep. When the 80-year-old great-granddad of New Orleans traditional jazz climbed onto the stage, surrounded by his seven-piece band, the crowd roared up, clapping and whistling, cell phone cameras held aloft.<br /><br />A standing ovation before he played his first note. It would be one of four he'd receive during the hour-long set. Hurricanes and health problems may have taken a toll on Fountain, slowing him down a bit, but he still knows how to grab the audience and force them out of their chairs. With Tim Laughlin accompanying on clarinet, he pumped out the old favorites - "Clarinet Marmalade," "Up the Lazy River," and "Basin Street Blues," - his feet tapping to the music.<br /><br />For "St. Louis Blues," his granddaughter, Danielle Scheib, 32, joined him on washboard, her spoons zipping over the metal surface adding a Zydeco beat. At the end of the song she gave gramps a hug, prompting another roar from the audience.<br /><br />Dressed in an untucked blue and white button down and white pants, Fountain shared the microphone with Laughlin, tag teaming it through "A Closer Walk With Thee," and "Struttin' with Some BBQ," backed up by Mark Mullins on trombone, Connie Jones on coronet, Tom Maggiore on sax, Olivier "Sticks" Felix on bass, Allyn Young on guitar and John Royen on piano. As he wound into "When the Saints Go Marching In," with Scheib back on the washboard, a second line snaked through the aisles, umbrellas in the air, handkerchiefs waving.<br /><br />At the end of the song, Fountain bowed to the roaring applause, put his flat cap on his head and exited stage right. A crowd gathered by the barricades, calling out for autographs and photos.<br /><br />In the second row, Ensley packed up her LP. "With that, we're going home for the day," she said. "Nothing can beat it."<br /></p></span><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Credits: Published: Sunday, May 01, 2011, 7:30 PM<br />By Susan Langenhennig, The Times-Picayune NOLA.com</span> </span></p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-20664812491255192022011-05-08T21:23:00.005-04:002011-05-08T21:50:37.515-04:00News - A Half-Fast Walk With Pete Fountain - OffBeat Magazine<div align="center"><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"><strong>A Half-Fast Walk With Pete Fountain</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><em>from OffBeat Magazine</em></span><br /></div><br /><div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT95f49l8gcPhoTLYuIIckmZM_KkBXJ9tRvIoV3j_NaExCkX0YaSrbsTg0FXoy2jx9YtSLsxDeb4MQP8nx1f1QchMKhDcUqxp7YiG-VdKQW7iKoHb3LGDsx6gwfNZjDVRPw_zJEfS4JPsM/s1600/pete-fountain-french-quarter-festival-600x355.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 237px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604521471192528258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT95f49l8gcPhoTLYuIIckmZM_KkBXJ9tRvIoV3j_NaExCkX0YaSrbsTg0FXoy2jx9YtSLsxDeb4MQP8nx1f1QchMKhDcUqxp7YiG-VdKQW7iKoHb3LGDsx6gwfNZjDVRPw_zJEfS4JPsM/s400/pete-fountain-french-quarter-festival-600x355.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Dawn arrived on Fat Tuesday 2011 with a gray, windy bluster and a forecast of heavy rain. But nature could not throw a wet blanket on the smoldering fire of revelers gathering along St. Charles Avenue waiting for the parades to roll. Outside of Commander’s Palace, Pete Fountain readied himself to lead those parades downtown, just as he had for the previous 50 years (he missed 2006 due to illness). Most of those years Fountain and his friends in the Half-Fast Walking Club walked into town, playing as they went and scattering doubloons adorned with Pete’s cherubic face. The crowds who’d been waiting for hours to see Zulu roll always greeted Fountain’s appearance with a joyous response, knowing that Mardi Gras had officially begin.<br /><br />But the 80-year-old Fountain has been slowed by strokes and now rides downtown on a streetcar float. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I used to walk,”</span></em> he says with a smile. <span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>“Now I have to ride in the truck. But I love it. Just have a good time. This is our 51st year. Now I’m on a trolley car that we put the 14-piece band on. I just sit there and play with them. It started with just the wives, couples walking, and it built from there. When I was a kid, they had all the walking clubs in the neighborhoods with brass bands and everything just like they are today. So that’s what happens; you grow up with it.”</em></span><br /><br />Fountain took his place at the front of the streetcar, resplendent in a dark blue suit festooned with embroidered white detail and wearing a feathered blue top hat. A group of club members walked ahead of him dressed in lighter purple suits and top hats tossing blue beads with medallions bearing the inscription <strong>“Pete Fountain”</strong> on one side and<strong> “Half-Fast Walking Club”</strong> on the other. The entourage turned onto St. Charles at Washington Avenue and the crowd cheered. Fountain’s band was in high gear and Pete brought his clarinet to his lips to play a few bars. But for the most part, he held on to his instrument and waved at the people, smiling and at times appearing overwhelmed with emotion.<br /><br />A television reporter approached the streetcar and asked Fountain a couple of questions about the weather and the music. Pete answered him, and when the reporter finished, Pete turned his gaze directly into the camera and said, <span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>“Thank you. I love you.”</em></span> Fountain has difficulty talking since the strokes, but he is still adept at communication. His message comes from deep inside those merry, watery blue eyes: <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I love you.”</span></em> The message is to all New Orleanians, a humble, simple expression of how much this city’s music and its people mean to him.<br /><br />Despite his infirmities, Pierre Dewey Fountain, Jr. gives the impression of savoring every moment of his life in his hometown. When he arrived at the Court of Two Sisters to sit down with OffBeat for this story, he chatted with French Quarter Fest board member Aynsley Fein, the daughter of a close friend. She took him by the arm and brought him into the garden, where a jazz trio was playing <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“Basin Street Blues.”</span></em> Fountain stopped and greeted each of them warmly. If you play traditional jazz in New Orleans, chances are you know Pete personally. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgKAnRCwQaxFJCAXKLcnur99agrc590f8vk5pX1VjNYh7XNnjJXZqnrF4BvT21IHUWBv_rKbtVqj4B4d6qH1B181zTopoWGWX8MbQaOeobn5DWLDvJoVXmdTLA-c5jxI1ONZXpRitIpR1U/s1600/2pete-fountain-black-and-white.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604521469848045410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgKAnRCwQaxFJCAXKLcnur99agrc590f8vk5pX1VjNYh7XNnjJXZqnrF4BvT21IHUWBv_rKbtVqj4B4d6qH1B181zTopoWGWX8MbQaOeobn5DWLDvJoVXmdTLA-c5jxI1ONZXpRitIpR1U/s400/2pete-fountain-black-and-white.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">When we sat down, talk turned immediately to French Quarter Fest. Fountain is the subject of this year’s poster. <span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>“The poster looks nice,”</em></span> offers Fountain. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I’ve played every French Quarter Fest, every year since the beginning. The first year was ‘84, ‘85. We played in Jackson Square. We always played in Jackson Square. My club (Pete Fountain’s, on Bourbon Street) was open back then. My club was separate from the French Quarter Fest, but we did some special events with them. Connie Jones and them were very influential in getting the French Quarter Festival started, and we did a lot of things with the festival.”</span></em><br /><br />Fountain speaks in short bursts interspersed with pauses. As he tries to remember details or formulate his words, he drums his fingers on the table. If he grows frustrated about not being able to express himself, he places his hand on the table palm down. But in general, he is able to talk without much prompting. And though his smile falters, it never fully disappears. That smile bespeaks a lifetime of living in New Orleans playing jazz and reflects the satisfaction of a man who’s seen his music grow from infancy.<br /><br />When Pete Fountain was a boy growing up in the 1930s, jazz was the popular music of its day, and Fountain knew he wanted to play it as soon as he picked up the clarinet at age nine.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“My father played a little fiddle and drums,” he says. “It was more country what he played.”</span></em><br /><br />Though Fountain grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930s, he doesn’t remember his childhood days as hard times.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“It was easy because my daddy drove a beer truck,”</span></em> he says. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“We had all we wanted.”</span></em> His eyes twinkle with the implied joke.<br /><br />His dad, Pierre (Red) Fountain, was a naturally gifted musician. Pete remembers his father playing his first clarinet before Pete himself could get a grasp on the instrument. But Fountain inherited his father’s instinct to play music without practice. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I always had a good ear,”</span></em> he says. That instinct is responsible for the relaxed, easy swing in Fountain’s delivery, a talent that allowed him to excel at school without being a disciplined chart player. Once he heard an arrangement, he could play it by heart. Fountain was a star player at McDonogh 28 Elementary School and Warren Easton High School. On the side, he listened to and played with anyone he could. He idolized Irving Fazola, whose broad tone he emulated, and played popular jazz tunes at football games with the Assunto Brothers, who later hired him to play with the Dukes of Dixieland.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“When I was growing up, what is now called New Orleans traditional jazz was contemporary music,”</span></em> he says. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“The Assunto brothers—I used to go to the football games and they would be playing there. It was at City Park Stadium. I asked them if they needed a clarinet player and they said okay, so I used to play with them at the football games. We’d be playing ‘Saints’; it’s the same now when I play it at Saints games. No difference. Just different guys, same tunes.”<br /></span></em><br />Fountain had bigger ambitions. He wanted to make it on Bourbon Street.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“There was a lot more music on Bourbon Street then, especially when I was growing up it was all live music, traditional New Orleans jazz. I would go to various clubs where musicians would all be sitting in with each other. I’d go walking down to Jumbo’s (Al Hirt’s) club.<br /><br />I went to the Mardi Gras parades on Bourbon Street when I was a kid. I used to go see Irving Fazola on Bourbon Street. I was too young to get into the clubs then, but I would sit outside and listen. When I was 15 years old, they called me up the night Irving died to sit in in his place at the club.”</span></em><br /><br />Fountain realized his life’s ambition as a teenager and never looked back.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ-6LXex572Kmp-CP_777AnwJwaj80u97c4V_LZ1RHatV0tC99KyAtZk3pDg3R_tokYs7251JcyjtNWMfAolA0bfAIML0TWUz397UE0j9j5sot084aBjQ2XuTDYFvmuZPUakW9mb3yiJFi/s1600/3pete-fountain-clarinet-french-quarter-festival-215x300.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 215px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604521476293076466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ-6LXex572Kmp-CP_777AnwJwaj80u97c4V_LZ1RHatV0tC99KyAtZk3pDg3R_tokYs7251JcyjtNWMfAolA0bfAIML0TWUz397UE0j9j5sot084aBjQ2XuTDYFvmuZPUakW9mb3yiJFi/s400/3pete-fountain-clarinet-french-quarter-festival-215x300.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I always thought I would be doing this,”</span></em> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">he says.</span> <em>“I played through grammar school and high school. Just played the clarinet, that was it. I knew everybody through playing the music. That was my whole life. I used to go to places and try to play with people as a kid. That’s how I met Jumbo. I always called him Jumbo. We go back all the way. I met him when I was a kid. He was a few years older than me. I used to go see him play. He was unbelievable back then. He invited me up one night and he liked how I played. People would know what you could do once they heard you. Everybody used to play the same thing—‘Saints,’ ‘Muskrat Ramble,’ we all knew the same songs. I was a professional musician, supporting myself playing music, when I was 18 or 19 years old. Jumbo and I were together for a while. It was just friendship, music, you know. I enjoyed being around him because he was a good player.”<br /></em><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In addition to playing with Hirt and others, Fountain had his own group, the Basin Street Six, in the 1950s. He also started a family, marrying Beverly Lang.</span> <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I was in the Louisiana National Guard through the whole time, with the band here in New Orleans. So that kept us all out of the [Korean] War. We played for everybody. Everything. I’ve been very lucky to toot the horn.”<br /></span></em><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fountain began a recording career during the ‘50s that led to more than 100 albums appearing under his name over the years. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I started out with Joe Mares and Southland Records,”</span></em> he recalls. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“He had a studio. It was funny; he was selling fur pelts so he had this big space and he loved jazz. His brother Paul played trumpet years back in the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. He loved jazz. We would go in there and he would set up one microphone in the middle of the room and tape it. That was all you had.”<br /></span></em><br />One of those recordings led to the biggest break in Fountain’s career, a two-year stint with the nationally-televised Lawrence Welk Show. Once a week, the whole country heard Fountain play a piece of New Orleans traditional jazz on Welk’s program.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“[Welk’s] son heard one of the records I did and they called me,” says Fountain. “They asked me to come up and play. I was very surprised, and then all of a sudden I’m on television and living out in California. I lived there for two years with them.”<br /></span></em><br />Though Fountain was a telegenic presence who provided a needed spark to the somnambulant pace of Welk’s programs, he chafed at the Hollywood lifestyle. Eventually, musical differences led to a parting of the ways with Welk. Fountain was at a crossroad. He was a huge TV star at the dawn of the 1960s. He could have easily arranged for his own television show or toured behind his sudden mass appeal. But all this true son of New Orleans wanted to do was come home.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I just wanted to,”</span></em> he explains. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“My wife and three kids, they all moved out to L.A. with me. I don’t think she liked it too much. She put up with it for two years and then we came home. I missed the parties and the crawfish boils and all the parts of living your life here.”<br /></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I came back in 1960 and opened up 800 Bourbon St., the jazz club Pete Fountain’s. The city hadn’t changed. I came back and it was the same difference. My name was bigger from playing on TV, but I wanted to come back to what I did here. The stardom, it never did catch up to me maybe. Maybe Jack Daniels helped. The quality of life was more important than being a celebrity. I just pushed all that aside.”<br /></span></em><br />As far as he was concerned, Fountain traded in Hollywood for his lifelong dream, his own Bourbon Street club.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I had my place 31 years, back when I was taller,”</span></em> he says, smiling at his own joke. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“It was 1960 when we opened the club. And then I went to 231 Bourbon. Jumbo was down the street in the 500 block. We used to go back and forth between clubs. Once I’d get off, I’d go down and see him. He’d come to my place. It depends on how drunk we got. I think Jumbo stayed open the latest of the two of us.”<br /></span></em><br />Fountain celebrated his homecoming with an album, Pete Fountain’s New Orleans, that many consider his best record. Fountain’s hit version of the gospel song <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“A Closer Walk”</span></em> comes from that record. Through the ‘60s and ‘70s, Fountain turned down offers to tour so he could play in New Orleans. He could have traveled all over the world, but he stayed in his club and played his music there.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“We did some touring, but not much,”</span></em> he says. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“It depends on the money. Of course I did go to do The Tonight Show. I liked Johnny Carson. I did that show 59 times. I knew all the guys in the band. Still do.”<br /></span></em><br />Carson had a great rapport with his band. He would often use them to make hip jokes about partying, and Fountain has a wry comment about Carson’s frequent references to band members being high on marijuana.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I wonder why he said that?”</span></em> he asks impishly.<br /><br />Popular music was changing dramatically while Fountain and Hirt ruled Bourbon Street. Fountain knew that his role had changed to being one of the guardians of a tradition.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I was aware that we were keeping a tradition going,”</span></em> he says. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I think that Jumbo, myself and the Dukes of Dixieland, there was all kinds of jazz coming out at the same time so it was lucky for us that we could make a living here without going out of town too much. I’m lucky to have been able to make a living in my hometown.”<br /></span></em><br />Though Fountain has slowed his pace, he hasn’t stopped playing and has no plans to retire.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I still play out at some private gigs,”</span></em> he says. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I’m playing French Quarter Festival and at a benefit for the Christian Brothers School. Two of my boys went to the Christian Brothers. We do a golf benefit for them. We do Jazz Fest, too.”<br /></span></em><br />As for his legacy, Fountain says he’s not looking that far ahead. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I don’t know. Just keep playing the clarinet as long as I can. I have a lot of protégés, but the best of them is Tim Laughlin. Tim showed up on our doorstep when he was 15 years old. We let him listen to the music and he took it from there. He’s a good player. Sometimes I think about all the things I’ve done with the records. You know, I mean, it was good. A good life. And here I am. I’m still tootin’ as much as I can. I’m not thinking about the future. I’m taking it one day at a time as much as I can.”<br /></span></em><br />Fountain is more concerned about the future of traditional jazz than he is about his own legacy. He’s pleased to see that traditional New Orleans jazz is enjoying a revival with a younger audience. <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“When it’s good, you see a lot of jazz out there,” he says, “and then it will back off for a little while and now it looks like it’s coming back. You notice that when the younger players pick it up, like out in the yard there, those younger players. The music is timeless.” </span></em><br /><br />Pete Fountain’s passion for jazz and the people of New Orleans has never wavered. Unlike so many other talented musicians who left New Orleans to pursue stardom on bigger stages, Fountain has never let celebrity make him forget who he is.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I’m lucky to have been able to make a living in my hometown,”</span></em> he insists.<br /><br />Nevertheless, even at 80 Fountain’s celebrity shadows his every step. He is greeted joyfully everywhere he goes in New Orleans and every person he meets gets a warm smile and a heartfelt gesture, a handclasp or pat on the shoulder. He never seems to tire of this role, and even though he has difficulty conversing, his wry sense of humor still animates his statements. The HBO series Treme filmed him leading the Half-Fast Walking Club on Mardi Gras morning. He has seen the show, yes. Did he like it?<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">“I like that,” he says matter-of-factly. “If they play jazz I love it. I don’t care who, what, why or where.”</span></em><br /><br />At French Quarter Fest: with Connie Jones, Friday, April 8, 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. WWL-TV Jackson Square Stage.<br /></span></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Courtesy of </span><a href="http://www.offbeat.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">OFFBEAT MAGAZINE</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Photos by Elsa Hahne<br />OffBeat is a monthly print magazine focusing on the music, </span></span></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">cuisine and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana. Its first issue was printed in 1988</span><br /></div></span>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-12568698200377094732011-05-07T12:24:00.003-04:002011-05-07T12:36:49.654-04:00Big Bands Of The Swingin' Years: Pete Fountain (Digitally Remastered)<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Big Bands Of The Swingin' Years: Pete Fountain</span></strong><br /><br /></div></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYhzmAIZF6uOktu9tisp-bG_q1UI9xyT5R53yuGzeic5Chr35L9OaU6wL6fsJb6afm3p2kx58OoiWIIQRad7TPybnTB-do031H7QQFZuKjRHnYk5WO5RurOnbrAD4ZEQV3fz8kS0n2BgfV/s1600/BigBands1600.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 373px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604011088539081442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYhzmAIZF6uOktu9tisp-bG_q1UI9xyT5R53yuGzeic5Chr35L9OaU6wL6fsJb6afm3p2kx58OoiWIIQRad7TPybnTB-do031H7QQFZuKjRHnYk5WO5RurOnbrAD4ZEQV3fz8kS0n2BgfV/s400/BigBands1600.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnhMoI1P0L5COp7CMHI225HWWwfezEiZsamlQ0XWioCppDp3CJQa5IV23_ebHic_UweMUSRxQDIr9IOMCtfllCfX2AZDrri_DBmjWBeCHQy2AXpYgdnHVr0iOYdiwZylpQuy06h_DPAovh/s1600/back.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 359px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604011093331033602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnhMoI1P0L5COp7CMHI225HWWwfezEiZsamlQ0XWioCppDp3CJQa5IV23_ebHic_UweMUSRxQDIr9IOMCtfllCfX2AZDrri_DBmjWBeCHQy2AXpYgdnHVr0iOYdiwZylpQuy06h_DPAovh/s400/back.jpg" /> <br /><p align="center"></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">2011 Essential Media Group</span><br /></p><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Tracks:<br />01. St. James Infirmary Blues 3:11 (Pete Fountain and the New Orleans All Stars)<br />02. Up A Lazy River 3:13 (Basin Street Six)<br />03. Jazz Me Blues 4:06 (Pete Fountain and The Sunsetters)<br />04. Mumbo Gumbo 2:34 (Pete Fountain and the New Orleans All Stars)<br />05. Margie 2:56 (Basin Street Six)<br />06. That's A Plenty (Basin Street Six)<br />07. When The Saints Go Marching In 3:55 (Pete Fountain and the New Orleans All Stars)<br />08. High Society 3:18 (Basin Street Six)<br />09. Moanin' Low 4:02 (Pete Fountain and the New Orleans All Stars)<br />10. South Rampart Street Parade 2:53 (Pete Fountain and The Sunsetters)<br /></span><br />The greatest ambassador of New Orleans jazz since Louis Armstrong, clarinetist Pete Fountain epitomizes the sound of New Orleans and has always remained true to the roots of Dixieland jazz. Presented here is some of Fountain's most treasured classic recordings including "St. James Infirmary Blues," "Up A Lazy River," "When The Saints Go Marching In" and "High Society." All selections newly remastered.<br /><br />Nothing new here, sound quality sounds like it was taken from a vinyl record. </span></p><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This is a reissue of the same CDs on </span></p><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://petefountain.blogspot.com/2008/07/down-on-rampart-street-music-trax.html">Down On Rampart Street - Music Trax Records </a><br />2007 Music Trax Records SEII - 9123<br /><br /><a href="http://petefountain.blogspot.com/2007/08/down-on-rampart-street-classic-sounds.html">Down On Rampart Street - Classic Sounds Records<br /></a>1996 Classic Sounds Inc. Records CSI-7785.<br /></span><br /><br /></p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-466185154393813302011-03-23T09:30:00.020-04:002011-03-24T15:02:53.166-04:00News - Pete Fountain, Mardi Gras 2011 and the Half-Fast Walkng Club<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Pete Fountain Celebrates Another Year on the Avenue</span></strong><br /><em>Report by WWL TV<br /></em><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1WyUfL6IlJMY1OYH5tkJlmroWBwETGTXwdxJA5Ozj8qiB0HsufniKPkH9zWVa_my8zgugfbWH9sovFxBFAOa5E7ZVlSlA5yjYwJ6cDgEn70Z0ClZbpj60IG6tPgtzejqOE-j22ywVE9G0/s1600/1764529.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 330px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 220px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587269918116269410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1WyUfL6IlJMY1OYH5tkJlmroWBwETGTXwdxJA5Ozj8qiB0HsufniKPkH9zWVa_my8zgugfbWH9sovFxBFAOa5E7ZVlSlA5yjYwJ6cDgEn70Z0ClZbpj60IG6tPgtzejqOE-j22ywVE9G0/s400/1764529.jpg" /></a> He's usually the first attraction of the day on the Uptown parade route for Mardi Gras and today was no exception. New Orleans treasure Pete Fountain lead his Half-Fast Walking Club right down the St. Charles route, making this year 51.<br /><br />Pete Fountain talks to WWL's Chris Miller about the 51st year with the Half-Fast Walking Club:<br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audioUrl=http://support.erportalsoftware.com/pf/pete.mp3" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" width="400" height="27" quality="best"></embed><br /><br />''<span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>It's my day, it's my day, I enjoy being around the guys and the musicians, just everything</em></span>,'' Fountain explained.<br /></span></div><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Watch Pete Fountain as the Half-Fast Walking Club begins its trek down St. Charles:</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_h4gsGZA60?hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_h4gsGZA60?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></p><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fountain will be 81 years old in July and said he has no intention of quitting, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">hoping next Mardi Gras will be another good one.<br /><br />''<span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>Have a good day and see you on the road. On the route? On the road.</em></span>''<br /><br />He is a world famous clarinetist, but most locals just know him as Pete, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and as a wonderfully nice guy.<br /><br />Video courtesy of <a href="http://www.wwl.com/pages/9355029.php">WWL TV</a>.</span></div>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-84670831840438189012011-03-23T08:59:00.004-04:002011-03-23T09:21:10.576-04:00Memorabilia - Pete Fountain & Tami Curtis Ellis 2011 French Quarter Festival Poster<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">2011 French Quarter Festival Poster</span> </strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>By Louisiana Artist, Tami Curtis Ellis<br /></strong></span></div><br /><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdCxAWeRrq3_JUy01iOMcLX9gev1FTcF3W-8mapeVg5eD1tWKHmPJBHRMkhE_f2v-10cncswZbu9QtnSCGFO0iOeBU0rU9u6ns9S_lH0Yl1gF2MxN8aJwy0p-kLVK5I2EqQ0rZJxmTmQ2q/s1600/01.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; WIDTH: 266px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587259564987921074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdCxAWeRrq3_JUy01iOMcLX9gev1FTcF3W-8mapeVg5eD1tWKHmPJBHRMkhE_f2v-10cncswZbu9QtnSCGFO0iOeBU0rU9u6ns9S_lH0Yl1gF2MxN8aJwy0p-kLVK5I2EqQ0rZJxmTmQ2q/s400/01.jpg" /></a></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The 2011 French Quarter Festival Poster highlights New Orleans'<br />own Pete Fountain, Connie Jones, and Tim Laughlin...<br /><br /><strong>The French Quarter Festival All Stars!</strong><br />Artist Tami Curtis Ellis placed them as the treasured center piece<br />among many iconic images that represent the music, architecture, culture,<br />and food that makes New Orleans what it is and what we love!</span><br /></p><p align="center"><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibMa7Db9tGblqNFO7vfe7lGMC4BKOTRAcKO3GQ5xmm4I668TOUFxhFuJS_cc5pbn-wtDfefORsnf7kflFvPrLreQ32x-shCap99RjKp5NpwInnFeY3dazPQyU4Qi9gxbBHK8xEmnZuqpxH/s1600/02.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587259568390429394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibMa7Db9tGblqNFO7vfe7lGMC4BKOTRAcKO3GQ5xmm4I668TOUFxhFuJS_cc5pbn-wtDfefORsnf7kflFvPrLreQ32x-shCap99RjKp5NpwInnFeY3dazPQyU4Qi9gxbBHK8xEmnZuqpxH/s400/02.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Tim Laughlin, Pete Fountain, and Connie Jones perform<br />as theFrench Quarter Festival All Stars at the French<br />Quarter Festival Press Conference in Jackson Square.<br /></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJNdjeicWbvwyX2zy2iABsPFNbLdOlMRgzLiOm3c9p9JPOAqKGIm5dibQ-4DDwkRf60wjoLIZyd2g3cxN91iU7IqtmUOs0gy6NQmpas-Sgoyr3x-m_6J9eZOqata1mH-vqPjQNX1-0Q9Z/s1600/03.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587259572450069970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJNdjeicWbvwyX2zy2iABsPFNbLdOlMRgzLiOm3c9p9JPOAqKGIm5dibQ-4DDwkRf60wjoLIZyd2g3cxN91iU7IqtmUOs0gy6NQmpas-Sgoyr3x-m_6J9eZOqata1mH-vqPjQNX1-0Q9Z/s400/03.jpg" /></a><br />Pete Fountain signs his image in the original artwork for the poster.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5AHrESCyDxDIoQlhFYxo1oeN8p9j-9FJQdla1DjUBEAHpgC-TtGEhprX3H7bEQD1W5eSpM_4eiCM91eAKLTCqtkHwyiInh2KHq4UILx0yh9THyYx9QVyJwv5BT55VVvaKAKEnqLcbzn_/s1600/04.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587259572909162514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5AHrESCyDxDIoQlhFYxo1oeN8p9j-9FJQdla1DjUBEAHpgC-TtGEhprX3H7bEQD1W5eSpM_4eiCM91eAKLTCqtkHwyiInh2KHq4UILx0yh9THyYx9QVyJwv5BT55VVvaKAKEnqLcbzn_/s400/04.jpg" /></a><br />Connie Jones signs his image in the original poster artwork<br />as Pete Fountain and Tami Curtis Ellis look on.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhzJ8q54xr-VF9gNQA9HijWp_Gq_2i-M6rBTKQNSaTEV7nv3Ad0ABSMhhnTYITFWEYuxYZ-IJG_g8Eltnw70zJ7D6uT6ZcWVkZqYEcci0Ct2eQFI-_Eh9RpLeYJx43lziZP0rjpPPc2Qj/s1600/05.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587259582375849250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhzJ8q54xr-VF9gNQA9HijWp_Gq_2i-M6rBTKQNSaTEV7nv3Ad0ABSMhhnTYITFWEYuxYZ-IJG_g8Eltnw70zJ7D6uT6ZcWVkZqYEcci0Ct2eQFI-_Eh9RpLeYJx43lziZP0rjpPPc2Qj/s400/05.jpg" /></a><br />Photo op time with Louisiana artist, Tami Curtis Ellis and<br />the French Quarter Festival All Stars, Tim Laughlin, Pete<br />Fountain, and Connie Jones. The three legendary musicians<br />were the inspiration and the center piece on the 2011 French<br />Quarter Festival poster artwork this year.<br /><br /></p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFl2pROl8nWznR9w5nxmILXlHSoM4DWFxU4ryt_9Tvcu76-dEJIES4jz5HAGkrikhmv1Or_hxG9gjCGGAX5KtFRc4xUyQL1Z3RPBXNsWex_Xv0LzPleQ5JYO9_m4Yk8aFsxqqVHFz6E4-j/s1600/06.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587259684827008594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFl2pROl8nWznR9w5nxmILXlHSoM4DWFxU4ryt_9Tvcu76-dEJIES4jz5HAGkrikhmv1Or_hxG9gjCGGAX5KtFRc4xUyQL1Z3RPBXNsWex_Xv0LzPleQ5JYO9_m4Yk8aFsxqqVHFz6E4-j/s400/06.jpg" /></a></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Pete Fountain, Tim Laughlin, and Connie Jones each signed<br />their own image in the original painting.<br /><br /><strong>It just doesn't get any cooler than that!!!</strong></span><br /><br />The posters are signed, numbered and printed in a rich colored silk screen process. To order yours, visit the official French Quarter Festival website at <a href="http://www.fqfi.org/">www.fqfi.org</a>.<br /><br />To see more of Tami's art, visit her website at <a href="http://www.tamicurtisellis.com/">www.tamicurtisellis.com</a><br /></p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-39386518828055489182010-12-20T20:28:00.012-05:002010-12-21T08:35:14.213-05:00News - Pete Fountain's Final Performance - Report<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Pete Fountain's Final Performance<br /></span></strong>Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis on Dec. 8, 2010<br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>Reported by John Titsworth</em></span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It was a chilly evening in Bay St. Louis, MS on December 8th for a performance at The Hollywood Casino that had been advertised as Pete Fountain’s final show at the casino. The band had been playing one 8:00 show the first Tuesday and Wednesday of each month for the past 9 months set up on top of a bar centrally located on the main floor of the casino. The view from the bandstand was that of a sea of slot machines and gambling tables between which chairs were squeezed in order to see Pete play.<br /><br />The local Biloxi television station, WLOX, sent a camera man and anchorwoman to interview Pete and capture snippets of the show for broadcast later that evening. By 6:30 people were appearing claiming what few good spots existed with favorable views of the stage. By show time a tight knit group had assembled who were personal friends and family as well as many well wishers and loyal fans of Pete over the past 60 years. With little fanfare the show opened with Benny Harrell’s (Pete’s personal manager for the over 35 years) introduction. Pete emerged from behind a curtain to the opening bars of <em>"Clarinet Marmalade"</em> delighting the audience with his first solo of the show. Next up <em>"Up the Lazy River"</em> during which Pete’s solo was partially captured by the WLOX cameraman standing just inches away obstructing the view, but no one seemed to mind.<br /><br />Virtually everyone in the band soloed; a band consisting of Tim Laughlin <em>(clarinet),</em> Tom Maggiore <em>(tenor sax),</em> Connie Jones <em>(cornet)</em>, Mike Genevay <em>(trombone),</em> Allyn Young <em>(guitar),</em> John Royen <em>(piano),</em> Oliver "Sticks" Felix<em> (bass),</em> Bryan Barberot <em>(drums).</em><br /><br />The lighting scheme throughout the whole show was peculiar. The band was either lit entirely in red, or entirely in blue, and in one instance entirely in green, switching colors during a tune or in-between tunes often times without any discernible reason. The band then launched into another Fountain chestnut, <em>"Basin Street Blues",</em> explored by Tim Laughlin’s soulful clarinet introduction.<br /><br />During a brief up tempo piano interlude, to the crowd’s amusement, Pete strutted his stuff second line style. <em>"St. Louis Blues"</em> arranged with rhythm changes kept the fingers popping. Guitarist and vocalist Allyn Young then poked good-natured fun at Tom Maggiore on a blues-drenched selection based on <em>"Tin Roof Blues"</em> with lyrics depicting Tom’s weight fluctuation and his relationship with his woman.<br /><br />The crowd gasped with joy when Pete render a number best identified with his career, <em>"Just a Closer Walk With Thee";</em> warmth and love poured forth from Pete’s horn. But the show did not end there. Pete brought up 2 musicians to sit-in on the final 3 numbers, a friend of many years fellow clarinetist, Bert Boe, and pianist David Boeddinghaus. Allyn Young was called upon once again to lend his vocalizes, this time to a rollicking rendition of <em>"My Little Margie";</em> the pulse so infectious that Elaine Jones (Connie Jones’ wife) and Danielle Harrell Scheib (Pete’s granddaughter) bent, twisted, and hopped their dancing moves in the aisle to the groove.<br /><br />Another up-tempo standard followed,<em> "Struttin' With Some Barbecue".</em> All good things must come to an end but not before Pete kicked off <em>"When the Saints Go Marching In".</em> The 3 clarinets of Tim, Bert, and Pete established the head feeding into a duet between Tim and drummer Bryan Barberot leading into Bryan’s stomping drum solo. With a head nod Bryan signaled the band back as the 10 musicians romped to a fiery climax. Before departing the stage for the last time a representative from the Casino presented Pete with a bouquet of flowers to the closing musical exit ditty by the band. Eager to meet everyone after the show, Pete accompanied by his family greeted and posed for pictures with anyone who wanted to be with Pete on this memorable closing evening.<br /><br />What’s in store for Pete? Ever the optimist, Mike Genevay, trombonist with Pete since 1978, proclaimed while exiting the stage door that "don’t be surprised if we show up some place in the near future". Stay tuned.<br /><br />John Titsworth, New Orleans LA is a frequent contributor to this blog, we thank him for all his hard work and contributions.<br /></span><br /><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORMbg5vrdaIOnXO1ssufs3pmlkjXTIztYbNgHAXA6FGQgnIqy3a6jQKlkiI6w5qegG3V5666sOe2hFgOOQQK_S2CXk3WgsE67qM6MzD7vWvVdSaKK-Y1ZeDMGSAQnDgplDH6_NprfpBqG/s1600/01+marquee+outside+at+entrance+to+casino.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 305px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552941737993726386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORMbg5vrdaIOnXO1ssufs3pmlkjXTIztYbNgHAXA6FGQgnIqy3a6jQKlkiI6w5qegG3V5666sOe2hFgOOQQK_S2CXk3WgsE67qM6MzD7vWvVdSaKK-Y1ZeDMGSAQnDgplDH6_NprfpBqG/s400/01+marquee+outside+at+entrance+to+casino.JPG" /> <p align="center"></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Marquee Outside At Entrance To Casino</span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsA4Tzwfn2tsBleCRVmyfZFomugkWDJi5YyVLTistlhtbPUiZIw19Yo3l2aU_Mq3kBhOBT1oUR5AsYeXKhqSXJchDpWJB2OGDmIzJZskEHd-RjN8nuiK0vzB-WaSowsZzZKc4GW3qn1ucg/s1600/02+Band+set+up+top+of+bar+before+final+set.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552942784527767074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsA4Tzwfn2tsBleCRVmyfZFomugkWDJi5YyVLTistlhtbPUiZIw19Yo3l2aU_Mq3kBhOBT1oUR5AsYeXKhqSXJchDpWJB2OGDmIzJZskEHd-RjN8nuiK0vzB-WaSowsZzZKc4GW3qn1ucg/s400/02+Band+set+up+top+of+bar+before+final+set.JPG" /> <p align="center"></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Band Set Up Top Of Bar Before Final Set<br /></span><br /></p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBhBQgTFRSTlKh1Ve2Q8-MJNB2zgNIPzdf-4Zl9vRqnyaIDYQgcZ8GF7bbRFLrMjNkkPSC86FZ9AJS13BKuZoTnUScVlyrYzo8NjYHNvLe0PMUoJO6wIvLqKbSkeZ2DvOQMzv8sN1c0e4/s1600/03+Audience+clustered+amongst+slot+machines+before+show.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552941747171638306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBhBQgTFRSTlKh1Ve2Q8-MJNB2zgNIPzdf-4Zl9vRqnyaIDYQgcZ8GF7bbRFLrMjNkkPSC86FZ9AJS13BKuZoTnUScVlyrYzo8NjYHNvLe0PMUoJO6wIvLqKbSkeZ2DvOQMzv8sN1c0e4/s400/03+Audience+clustered+amongst+slot+machines+before+show.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Audience Clustered Amongst Slot Machines Before Show<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg77Jwv9SirfVuO26pSe9lLoDH_u5iT4Lj5Ag-Tgsg7w7fDzoH6hKRrMyCR7EkvfLRcvxhdOkWKV0KKdezlPIrnjNBko7bOBD1-0V_G9HyR8GRkIbSGSrYGQ55RvXoJRLzdZS7nRQYAiVK-/s1600/s0+Soaked+in+red.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552942788518353602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg77Jwv9SirfVuO26pSe9lLoDH_u5iT4Lj5Ag-Tgsg7w7fDzoH6hKRrMyCR7EkvfLRcvxhdOkWKV0KKdezlPIrnjNBko7bOBD1-0V_G9HyR8GRkIbSGSrYGQ55RvXoJRLzdZS7nRQYAiVK-/s400/s0+Soaked+in+red.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Soaked in Red</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC_mqPH-rfqq5ZlXscjea7MGETzrgSHt7WrQXQIPoUdeDZzlocmoZ3uVc2_gEkEpaMLraxImoTuLmdC4beUMw9zZ58oLkPlVoZxEPhA_QQZrhhH_f_IoBAkWqM-v1Clq0zfS4tZ5xW860m/s1600/s2+Connie+Jones.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552942790457668978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC_mqPH-rfqq5ZlXscjea7MGETzrgSHt7WrQXQIPoUdeDZzlocmoZ3uVc2_gEkEpaMLraxImoTuLmdC4beUMw9zZ58oLkPlVoZxEPhA_QQZrhhH_f_IoBAkWqM-v1Clq0zfS4tZ5xW860m/s400/s2+Connie+Jones.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Connie Jones<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxSRKzL-0eh97RSZZUlihpKr_WW-VV3ZicaAOgKpSwvWGxjmM0O1Y1mEHQyMjaofwY8JP5r3Ylz93f75PUr7e7jBfJl2AD0jDs6OQoCyzliJofn3IHezEQrXr0uw-76LkoRrN87u8jc7R/s1600/s3+Oliver+Sticks+Felix.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552942795070294338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxSRKzL-0eh97RSZZUlihpKr_WW-VV3ZicaAOgKpSwvWGxjmM0O1Y1mEHQyMjaofwY8JP5r3Ylz93f75PUr7e7jBfJl2AD0jDs6OQoCyzliJofn3IHezEQrXr0uw-76LkoRrN87u8jc7R/s400/s3+Oliver+Sticks+Felix.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Oliver Sticks Felix<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1N8sMnRjE3rnK3BKWuQBb68WRACQlnvGJ0CzmckU-ppLswxNfHdW7_aClclnbBuwJEwf-YE02ylo7Xz0Rpg_APySYPzT22MNhWIfJ2lLVjXqXZaUNkl-yQFMz1tMTEsLttP2L5smGmoxH/s1600/s4+Tom+Maggiore.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552942800784929954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1N8sMnRjE3rnK3BKWuQBb68WRACQlnvGJ0CzmckU-ppLswxNfHdW7_aClclnbBuwJEwf-YE02ylo7Xz0Rpg_APySYPzT22MNhWIfJ2lLVjXqXZaUNkl-yQFMz1tMTEsLttP2L5smGmoxH/s400/s4+Tom+Maggiore.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Tom Maggiore<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBvNDysQWFHC8kFFDF1q6eeTLn-BAxXx1Ah6tYruXLCJ0eeSnatb1SAcKxSPwugvuaBUFRW8gODoiwz7ES4MnvVEi2Nc4XZEtEjG_gyQ4qH03a6BX6IabAkqQNi2up_7eva3NrGwv8UNYS/s1600/s5+Mike+Genevay.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943331115633186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBvNDysQWFHC8kFFDF1q6eeTLn-BAxXx1Ah6tYruXLCJ0eeSnatb1SAcKxSPwugvuaBUFRW8gODoiwz7ES4MnvVEi2Nc4XZEtEjG_gyQ4qH03a6BX6IabAkqQNi2up_7eva3NrGwv8UNYS/s400/s5+Mike+Genevay.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Mike Genevay<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGdI9LrhiAw2lqh9NwMPuW0luUtunBHi1XwArMffDJiBA1dAF_VWGuZ1QCi50tAujsJrDaUyWmKuBE8fGJqpn-SE4n9NJB2mByhkhTi8qRA-aFxI-yvtveyPQ0AFyduP9OQxfbvPAE7QXT/s1600/s6+Allyn+Young+rendering+playful+lyrics+to+Tin+Roof+Blues.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943329540319378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGdI9LrhiAw2lqh9NwMPuW0luUtunBHi1XwArMffDJiBA1dAF_VWGuZ1QCi50tAujsJrDaUyWmKuBE8fGJqpn-SE4n9NJB2mByhkhTi8qRA-aFxI-yvtveyPQ0AFyduP9OQxfbvPAE7QXT/s400/s6+Allyn+Young+rendering+playful+lyrics+to+Tin+Roof+Blues.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Allyn Young<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRCvLl-ZeH-FAlzMuNbn6kUpmnqwN8sX8NrzTP3ZdNlFtvwa_Ci2bjyyq2UWsiL1SCBa2KDx_rJYRicdi5bgtHWCybCVffsFgxmccI8Z-iwykaJuh8449ENjhGUhc58DKiW5mQIoQKAJ4Q/s1600/s6+John+Royen.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943334749854866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRCvLl-ZeH-FAlzMuNbn6kUpmnqwN8sX8NrzTP3ZdNlFtvwa_Ci2bjyyq2UWsiL1SCBa2KDx_rJYRicdi5bgtHWCybCVffsFgxmccI8Z-iwykaJuh8449ENjhGUhc58DKiW5mQIoQKAJ4Q/s400/s6+John+Royen.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">John Royen<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_foSwWzBHd1lpGISsi6xK4vv4KAvtFMyFN0QWodOJN-DTWrVZHPLOqvGmRv85abUaun3ijCX0_DY_AHs-G6Z06ySsuGmPnFNZeV86VBw90fWKZiLRfWOxqlVTxRrjnw4iI7en5_hGt61V/s1600/s9+Soaked+in+blue.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943831596749442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_foSwWzBHd1lpGISsi6xK4vv4KAvtFMyFN0QWodOJN-DTWrVZHPLOqvGmRv85abUaun3ijCX0_DY_AHs-G6Z06ySsuGmPnFNZeV86VBw90fWKZiLRfWOxqlVTxRrjnw4iI7en5_hGt61V/s400/s9+Soaked+in+blue.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Soaked in Blue<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5WqFASMW4F6o64J9ORgcIAXnvkY5OkR8aioFpLmklP5XDaB5HSoIfymH4zj3sICx2WPLxCpXHHAGRCJKWP95th3BDHywv04PG0yoec9kit8PPKR-s6tYyU5sN7vpfmPXytWnPipSKrPT/s1600/t4+WLOX+cameraman+obstructing+view.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943847552475746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5WqFASMW4F6o64J9ORgcIAXnvkY5OkR8aioFpLmklP5XDaB5HSoIfymH4zj3sICx2WPLxCpXHHAGRCJKWP95th3BDHywv04PG0yoec9kit8PPKR-s6tYyU5sN7vpfmPXytWnPipSKrPT/s400/t4+WLOX+cameraman+obstructing+view.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">WLOX Cameraman Obstructing View</span></p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOHmncne-xptLcJbrlKIqgNhyphenhyphenU1jKdTz3EG_3CIGPwXGqHPZeYRQtapk-sF5JfkiAsJskycpxSXPkUFdp0wWqoa9ngccm_8pZpSEJd9U8i9T6T3XZAmOpJsaAzVakeDxx93NBElme56Ar/s1600/t5+Struttin+his+stuff+on+Basin+Street++Bues.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552944422324364018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOHmncne-xptLcJbrlKIqgNhyphenhyphenU1jKdTz3EG_3CIGPwXGqHPZeYRQtapk-sF5JfkiAsJskycpxSXPkUFdp0wWqoa9ngccm_8pZpSEJd9U8i9T6T3XZAmOpJsaAzVakeDxx93NBElme56Ar/s400/t5+Struttin+his+stuff+on+Basin+Street++Bues.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Struttin His Stuff On Basin Street Blues</span></p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtxX4CGf_xK-AIeL9DydCBb9UjdRd_Lto4jR0w0C-VThw3ktiBEPq4EZ6T5oHyLX9WfNasJypjaYGyZaiP6PmSJo3eGkfkSNGcVQF6PWmFr4cq77YkV11mm7LN2HkUadnEPpy63QHOoU3H/s1600/t6+Concludiing+St.+Louis+Blues.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552944429107548770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtxX4CGf_xK-AIeL9DydCBb9UjdRd_Lto4jR0w0C-VThw3ktiBEPq4EZ6T5oHyLX9WfNasJypjaYGyZaiP6PmSJo3eGkfkSNGcVQF6PWmFr4cq77YkV11mm7LN2HkUadnEPpy63QHOoU3H/s400/t6+Concludiing+St.+Louis+Blues.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Concluding St. Louis Blues</span></p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjygB3qQq47_uo_lHOYuvBkN8J0WRvNVa3HJ1b2AgI9SPfEOvuRjKgvXpEz88cl_gIYPLQdSTooVDh1zyCihz1PUe5Xghcm0hgOfXYzH4M06TRq0jkHljh5roseHBPS96knO2TdURucQic9/s1600/s1+Just+a+Closer+Walk+With+Thee.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552941751096113442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjygB3qQq47_uo_lHOYuvBkN8J0WRvNVa3HJ1b2AgI9SPfEOvuRjKgvXpEz88cl_gIYPLQdSTooVDh1zyCihz1PUe5Xghcm0hgOfXYzH4M06TRq0jkHljh5roseHBPS96knO2TdURucQic9/s400/s1+Just+a+Closer+Walk+With+Thee.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Just a Closer Walk With Thee<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZ_OWb83jVSTAWF4LKbppnTsWj6J-uCT8WQNDjxP4_egYDexnksGOzUXQHcnFGX4-eEzyCUPfBs8wtb8-bR3lEgja7sMhR244tp83zRrbnrvSNJRckTv-BY0MbTxR_CeJJxUItvW9dgt6/s1600/s7+David+Boeddinghaus.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943337847006914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZ_OWb83jVSTAWF4LKbppnTsWj6J-uCT8WQNDjxP4_egYDexnksGOzUXQHcnFGX4-eEzyCUPfBs8wtb8-bR3lEgja7sMhR244tp83zRrbnrvSNJRckTv-BY0MbTxR_CeJJxUItvW9dgt6/s400/s7+David+Boeddinghaus.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">David Boeddinghaus<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQGBdef9loTplqONafDCX8sflwsUHc79sXBmmpZTnzhflCgciak7juiGlMc7zBWEybkHbYq6CQAnO1x4lQ9ubof_8n1fyI3emM0hzWmO3i7OZvxD9E1GT3OzuyLQe0BJoiIt3SYn0AIUnJ/s1600/s8+Bert+Boe.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943339784480930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQGBdef9loTplqONafDCX8sflwsUHc79sXBmmpZTnzhflCgciak7juiGlMc7zBWEybkHbYq6CQAnO1x4lQ9ubof_8n1fyI3emM0hzWmO3i7OZvxD9E1GT3OzuyLQe0BJoiIt3SYn0AIUnJ/s400/s8+Bert+Boe.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bert Boe</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR7bBSSYKpgiY3itAzAboTIn_1BE_55sNxqfBwbCiqvLNJxtxcarCQMZysvQApyVS5dtNQ5_RpFDkzClSYyCOp5WVFJhlfJaHKs_ghyEKbRL2dEnf13CU1luhi_LkNrKM9yPvoKVAPpHAp/s1600/t3+Tim+Laughlin%252C+Bert+Boe%252C+Pete.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943838796074898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR7bBSSYKpgiY3itAzAboTIn_1BE_55sNxqfBwbCiqvLNJxtxcarCQMZysvQApyVS5dtNQ5_RpFDkzClSYyCOp5WVFJhlfJaHKs_ghyEKbRL2dEnf13CU1luhi_LkNrKM9yPvoKVAPpHAp/s400/t3+Tim+Laughlin%252C+Bert+Boe%252C+Pete.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Tim Laughlin, Bert Boe, Pete</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rPvZCILbuNwsw8y0DTYtixp6W4me7K2oOuQ6FOgptopZx9iT55DYhDhWhIK9ic-8Tir3ze5-5J8xiENza7oktSiAx19-bGyxrzBb49iNwvPfQki1mluKveiV9147HYgq9ytpfI8OJ9Vz/s1600/t7+Elaine+and+Danielle+dancing+to+My+Little+Margie.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552944433490824914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rPvZCILbuNwsw8y0DTYtixp6W4me7K2oOuQ6FOgptopZx9iT55DYhDhWhIK9ic-8Tir3ze5-5J8xiENza7oktSiAx19-bGyxrzBb49iNwvPfQki1mluKveiV9147HYgq9ytpfI8OJ9Vz/s400/t7+Elaine+and+Danielle+dancing+to+My+Little+Margie.jpg" /></a>Elaine and Danielle dancing to My Little Margie<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgazXDC39exd5B27RFC0HZbCYbte-kk71uM0dBMXY7rTUlqRubH2HQrduUKCYgNuWRhEqgI_c18oy5q8QqYxracMYdKqfnUZHHMTchK24hvB7yLX-RS77UyaowUsXLBTOda580WagAmwTIr/s1600/t1+Tim+%2526+Bryan+duet+on+the+Saints.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943836198473810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgazXDC39exd5B27RFC0HZbCYbte-kk71uM0dBMXY7rTUlqRubH2HQrduUKCYgNuWRhEqgI_c18oy5q8QqYxracMYdKqfnUZHHMTchK24hvB7yLX-RS77UyaowUsXLBTOda580WagAmwTIr/s400/t1+Tim+%2526+Bryan+duet+on+the+Saints.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Tim & Bryan duet on the Saints</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVqNvByc7wLh7thhUCS9YeQHDPwiFYRqkY41opJ2LV7k4_r4w7esOIsPc5J45aTst4SLQ7dac_qBYBzc_myu-cfFHwvVxPSenjVZGsbulwQ2MePL_DkOKksCqOGh3ymQ-WqjBjs30ZVEBc/s1600/t2+Bryan+signaling+to+band+on+SAints.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552943842079129890" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVqNvByc7wLh7thhUCS9YeQHDPwiFYRqkY41opJ2LV7k4_r4w7esOIsPc5J45aTst4SLQ7dac_qBYBzc_myu-cfFHwvVxPSenjVZGsbulwQ2MePL_DkOKksCqOGh3ymQ-WqjBjs30ZVEBc/s400/t2+Bryan+signaling+to+band+on+SAints.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bryan Signaling To Band On Saints</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirasUosTjTtnEPYiUlH-gbU_jxtwCrvqgB_BtsSCLil0EBuw45gEfvHGQLcIqxKmEy1BJCUGT_r4q7uyQANPSF8TLuk_zI3t-Vt00UMim6PynmsSAPR3BfzYiIOO3gjq7OnlTRa3XrSBTj/s1600/t8+bouquet+of+flowers+before+Pete%2527s+final+exit.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552944437742656306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirasUosTjTtnEPYiUlH-gbU_jxtwCrvqgB_BtsSCLil0EBuw45gEfvHGQLcIqxKmEy1BJCUGT_r4q7uyQANPSF8TLuk_zI3t-Vt00UMim6PynmsSAPR3BfzYiIOO3gjq7OnlTRa3XrSBTj/s400/t8+bouquet+of+flowers+before+Pete%2527s+final+exit.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bouquet Of Flowers Before Pete's Final Exit<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ymzYq1g9_CD5S-OR77fJUhbmtn2wKcciHJbM-amHejrf0tS0PSUeqhD3TwUYStYiZwxkcxz2pQ9X3DfbomDYAFOPen1O79tcxmgz3uVNoPwPJ5k1QuCvqCJ5nQ4iBg5eUu3V_GXfQ5O9/s1600/t9+Bryan+tearing+down+kit+for+last+time.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552944435832560946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ymzYq1g9_CD5S-OR77fJUhbmtn2wKcciHJbM-amHejrf0tS0PSUeqhD3TwUYStYiZwxkcxz2pQ9X3DfbomDYAFOPen1O79tcxmgz3uVNoPwPJ5k1QuCvqCJ5nQ4iBg5eUu3V_GXfQ5O9/s400/t9+Bryan+tearing+down+kit+for+last+time.JPG" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bryan Tearing Down Kit For Last Time</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjpHMnX5HeSYV81kfU4VrP1tPhwTMD0sGouc-pyPc_jbYokfCey9eS2aSRKwcfXNZaGAfeZSqMUz5cTCvHGnF_zuvahZO4e4lHudTeEZoHL4-U8fpELW0-2F-BWF5NUqbmdwJLAtReYzuF/s1600/u1+Greeting+well+wisher+after+show.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552944825509215634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjpHMnX5HeSYV81kfU4VrP1tPhwTMD0sGouc-pyPc_jbYokfCey9eS2aSRKwcfXNZaGAfeZSqMUz5cTCvHGnF_zuvahZO4e4lHudTeEZoHL4-U8fpELW0-2F-BWF5NUqbmdwJLAtReYzuF/s400/u1+Greeting+well+wisher+after+show.JPG" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Greeting Well Wisher After Show<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUAw-LW9eZ7wn3791F_BshM8qDDE6dn3ZhOSXEp_oHvk7eMyhMPSKHAM5BrUypjS2Qt5FTsfbfS_5Tvsn9HuH_1Q2ILIdm1FGQZi7QdwNb1VVPoLAcQwLFLtKjBM3VuWJrXK08WaUjXkS/s1600/u2+Greeting+more+fans+after+show.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552944829358863218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUAw-LW9eZ7wn3791F_BshM8qDDE6dn3ZhOSXEp_oHvk7eMyhMPSKHAM5BrUypjS2Qt5FTsfbfS_5Tvsn9HuH_1Q2ILIdm1FGQZi7QdwNb1VVPoLAcQwLFLtKjBM3VuWJrXK08WaUjXkS/s400/u2+Greeting+more+fans+after+show.JPG" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Greeting More Well Wishers After Show<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipSWQ7NCJTNoVNknz4ynZZeGChBf7HYKuUxrxWhy-EPPS6CXd8ldA-c07DwPkoc1UMcD8Qzj-ZmM2ZFTDGbRCUsogoFW08irGH8sAJEb8BtjgFnrg_U_zhzVb4BAZYMHVguSqkao3IQyYJ/s1600/u3+Posing+for+pictures+after+show.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552944836715062930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipSWQ7NCJTNoVNknz4ynZZeGChBf7HYKuUxrxWhy-EPPS6CXd8ldA-c07DwPkoc1UMcD8Qzj-ZmM2ZFTDGbRCUsogoFW08irGH8sAJEb8BtjgFnrg_U_zhzVb4BAZYMHVguSqkao3IQyYJ/s400/u3+Posing+for+pictures+after+show.JPG" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Posing For Pictures After Show </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB1xMby6a5Er2bV2VseS9jCR-4WUWvLjc0vgP4FBGoJkM-cVcMqaHlc_Gg5b8ycj9cdTFEYiz5G0PHtmMPB_wIovyx5sjaN2-Idg-8fn5cN355wx1jHgOcpH9DtO9qFTn5daxz9wHxPglM/s1600/u4+Grandson+Gregory%252C+Beverly+Fountain%252C+and+Pete+after+show..JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552944836517029730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB1xMby6a5Er2bV2VseS9jCR-4WUWvLjc0vgP4FBGoJkM-cVcMqaHlc_Gg5b8ycj9cdTFEYiz5G0PHtmMPB_wIovyx5sjaN2-Idg-8fn5cN355wx1jHgOcpH9DtO9qFTn5daxz9wHxPglM/s400/u4+Grandson+Gregory%252C+Beverly+Fountain%252C+and+Pete+after+show..JPG" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Grandson Gregory, Beverly Fountain, And Pete After Show</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>We all would like to wish Pete the best, thanks for the great music all these years. </em></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>We will miss you, you deserve your retirement!</em></span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></p><p align="center"><br /></p></span>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-34900968043979317112010-12-15T11:26:00.005-05:002010-12-15T11:34:33.335-05:00News - Pete Fountain's Final Performance - News Report WLOX<br><div align="center"><span style="color:#990000;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Pete Fountain's Final Performance</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#006600;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">News Report WLOX</span><br /></span></strong><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V-Qvja_joio?hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V-Qvja_joio?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Legendary jazz musician Pete Fountain played his last performance at Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis on Dec. 8, 2010. He's been playing at the casino regularly since 2003</span></div><div align="center"><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.wlox.com/">Video Courtesy of WLOX ABC News 13</a><br /></div></span> <br>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-78996336567991247552010-12-11T21:09:00.006-05:002010-12-11T21:16:20.321-05:00News - Pete's Final Performance at Bay St Louis Casino<br><br><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Legendary Jazz legend and his longtime band held their FINAL PERFORMANCE on Dec 8, 2010 at the Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.</span></div><div align="justify"><br><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After many years playing there, he recently was only performing on day a month, even then cancelling frequently due to health reasons. We all wish Pete well, and hope he enjoys his retirement. If anyone has additional news, please post a comment.</span></div><br><br>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-30192632901931644972010-07-11T11:37:00.002-04:002010-07-11T11:46:05.212-04:00Vacation Photo in French Quarter - Memorabilia<div align="center"><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000066;">Statue of Pete Fountain</span></strong><br /></div><p align="center"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdZhoqSzpSoLgbwKcCRuxgsVB-Qt9cEZX4x1Bj1PTWIX7hwUcv_Oavd7_qms8wzrABv2uAj6ihkxuPaMev91TdXETEVYK5cfCgC7qk3ha8TX9g6IDLEs4VQSLmMY3ET6PbcNiN87RGMy3/s1600/Dve_PeteStatue.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 316px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492673468848959794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdZhoqSzpSoLgbwKcCRuxgsVB-Qt9cEZX4x1Bj1PTWIX7hwUcv_Oavd7_qms8wzrABv2uAj6ihkxuPaMev91TdXETEVYK5cfCgC7qk3ha8TX9g6IDLEs4VQSLmMY3ET6PbcNiN87RGMy3/s400/Dve_PeteStatue.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Statue of Pete Fountain in Edison Park / Legends Park,<br />Bourbon Street, French Quarter, New Orleans with<br />yours truly on a recent visit to New Orleans Memorial Day!</span> </p><p align="center"> </p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-86910464166294615542010-07-11T11:25:00.006-04:002010-07-11T11:33:41.431-04:00More Pete's 80th Birthday Photos - News<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">More Pete's 80th Birthday Photos</span></strong><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em><a href="http://photos.nola.com/tpphotos/2010/07/pete_fountain_birthday_1.html">Courtesy of John McCusker / The Times-Picayune </a><br /></em></span><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTh0cN1Smup8ZQmwIZYQCERJemianbpikIEopEeGy892fpNuLJiz6qomO7MS47ieocUQ7BeEgRXIlOzs6IAtaHOabCttKHAC-Mm9oF-LYNhHm5O2-zjHDpenOroAuiBgfrr-NLfTbtk4Dx/s1600/80_Pete_Pin.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 284px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492670278673544818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTh0cN1Smup8ZQmwIZYQCERJemianbpikIEopEeGy892fpNuLJiz6qomO7MS47ieocUQ7BeEgRXIlOzs6IAtaHOabCttKHAC-Mm9oF-LYNhHm5O2-zjHDpenOroAuiBgfrr-NLfTbtk4Dx/s400/80_Pete_Pin.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKEuprI5nkoUZneRKQ-1xBdCAdT3UR0qpckAwas1M2LRNLfE8CysorXwbcC3n_G0XE6Hz7V9y4lYcqR19ZRAwXW3KlLbiFA66W2d8d8vLunwImjSGIk5V1qdkuLHsXN2yTyouybSlT-8W/s1600/80_Pete_Bev.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 357px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492670385985455378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKEuprI5nkoUZneRKQ-1xBdCAdT3UR0qpckAwas1M2LRNLfE8CysorXwbcC3n_G0XE6Hz7V9y4lYcqR19ZRAwXW3KlLbiFA66W2d8d8vLunwImjSGIk5V1qdkuLHsXN2yTyouybSlT-8W/s400/80_Pete_Bev.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxm44RlQ-HYzYinD4JeqAb5SshjL5ki-DXSI9goGhuuhsffDS_Zj4G6HAGPY86MmD6uWwlPWscWS5J5k9hFTHdBtZwZHT1z3dvahXZtHMqGmOsfJzalu4QQwQ19epVcqe7Datn-5-SAudT/s1600/80+Pete_Tim.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 383px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492670470362713538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxm44RlQ-HYzYinD4JeqAb5SshjL5ki-DXSI9goGhuuhsffDS_Zj4G6HAGPY86MmD6uWwlPWscWS5J5k9hFTHdBtZwZHT1z3dvahXZtHMqGmOsfJzalu4QQwQ19epVcqe7Datn-5-SAudT/s400/80+Pete_Tim.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><p></p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-50545252676152119052010-07-08T14:22:00.087-04:002010-12-25T19:53:48.018-05:00Pete Fountain's 80th Birthday Bash - News<p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Pete Fountain's 80th Birthday Bash</span></strong><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong>Reported by John Titsworth</strong></span></em><br /></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7S5cLKLKheehYOvTtnX9y-2p4Qc2h-tMa9DH9op1I2tY3xNsgixme4SfXj836eTUBb5RgCmqvzI9n-RkD4ENFGod3N5n_x9x4zul44_n17gL8tm2hZdSazGUNqzb8KgLvEsez2ybwiqV4/s1600/01+entrance+to+Rock+n+Bowl,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0059.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492041555599973922" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7S5cLKLKheehYOvTtnX9y-2p4Qc2h-tMa9DH9op1I2tY3xNsgixme4SfXj836eTUBb5RgCmqvzI9n-RkD4ENFGod3N5n_x9x4zul44_n17gL8tm2hZdSazGUNqzb8KgLvEsez2ybwiqV4/s400/01+entrance+to+Rock+n+Bowl,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0059.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />Unlike the predicted downpour and thunderstorms, Saturday July 3rd turned out to a beautiful sunny, albeit hot and humid, summer day in New Orleans. Befitting for a man who was about to throw a big bash open to the public for his 80th birthday at a popular entertainment venue geared generally to a younger audience, Mid-City Rock ‘n Bowl.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzGV4due8rZCIYG7DinrRDIcU_WqIlfrYdhwQa1AVRWaGgUg9CKvwwCqidzohLPnbbu54CN0iVmYbfx5PrhASsW83WMTNXpjtonU22ElADzGQmT4KuhhyDqk-Kvq7WDlrIWZM2xraeGNQV/s1600/02+mural+inside+Rock+n+Bowl,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0052.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492041660562870626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzGV4due8rZCIYG7DinrRDIcU_WqIlfrYdhwQa1AVRWaGgUg9CKvwwCqidzohLPnbbu54CN0iVmYbfx5PrhASsW83WMTNXpjtonU22ElADzGQmT4KuhhyDqk-Kvq7WDlrIWZM2xraeGNQV/s400/02+mural+inside+Rock+n+Bowl,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0052.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Slated to begin at 3:00 and end at 6:00, the party began instead when the doors opened at 2:00. Within just a few minutes the Rock ‘n Bowl became standing room only. A long line of well wishers assembled to sign the sizable guess book, a line that never diminished for the next 4 hours.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHwj5-uPfW6ldvKfHP1cVvuIlmwImTaoII2LpbIck6kywOTCexC8H_h_XZf_erSJPJz5-oU7VIs_1SSrMSYKj3d23NuT5HqxMRnCkuhPPmgwhe6AhEYt_jNn-naUha1rgmYsFLUKG5r2q6/s1600/03+12+foot+cake,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0050.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492042213350624322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHwj5-uPfW6ldvKfHP1cVvuIlmwImTaoII2LpbIck6kywOTCexC8H_h_XZf_erSJPJz5-oU7VIs_1SSrMSYKj3d23NuT5HqxMRnCkuhPPmgwhe6AhEYt_jNn-naUha1rgmYsFLUKG5r2q6/s400/03+12+foot+cake,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0050.JPG" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Fountain family spent all morning tastefully decorating the place themselves that included a 12-foot long cake in the shape of a clarinet baked at the Swiss Bakery located on St. Charles Ave., a stop for the Half-Fast Walking Club during Mardi Gras on Fat Tuesday. Tickets were sold for a raffle of certain prized items that included a lamp made out of a clarinet. </span></p><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></p><p align="justify"></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPN8zPDs2LG1Asa-JSFGihKKYavrcU9aSjf5aLVWri782tkpiWhoAl9OSq29bEo1gPIsiKiyBMxTVJoH-GfhmN1ikxe9ggKq9BwidLKIgMCak2zxeFbZ04mf7g_-YkX7w4DDoYLWuYsfgx/s1600/23+Pete--raffle+drawing.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492043030871921234" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPN8zPDs2LG1Asa-JSFGihKKYavrcU9aSjf5aLVWri782tkpiWhoAl9OSq29bEo1gPIsiKiyBMxTVJoH-GfhmN1ikxe9ggKq9BwidLKIgMCak2zxeFbZ04mf7g_-YkX7w4DDoYLWuYsfgx/s400/23+Pete--raffle+drawing.jpg" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></p><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><p align="justify"><br />For the drawing Pete himself drew the winning tickets out of a bucket held by his granddaughter, Danielle, accompanied by Pete’s manager for the past 35 years, Benny Harrell.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje7fkuIsyfJFnxr-e6hK0gOTHmjkipZ1lknw4Eyv0Gj2n1brXjLar3k9K7qMlIXffrcjPhW-zobnzenysrAWoZlCxLX66c4xftnv_w8ZelArpOIfYWL_qxQtKsIWzs8Sh3ojxgBx98UnVV/s1600/05+Pete+blowing+out+candles,+son+Jeff+holding+cake.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 260px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492043453251525698" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje7fkuIsyfJFnxr-e6hK0gOTHmjkipZ1lknw4Eyv0Gj2n1brXjLar3k9K7qMlIXffrcjPhW-zobnzenysrAWoZlCxLX66c4xftnv_w8ZelArpOIfYWL_qxQtKsIWzs8Sh3ojxgBx98UnVV/s400/05+Pete+blowing+out+candles,+son+Jeff+holding+cake.jpg" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>A birthday party would not be complete without a birthday cake and candle blowing ceremony. Pete blew out all the candles on his first attempt on a cake held by his son Jeffrey.<br /><br><br><br><br><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0Z_ww3sjX6lrA_I-6tunGDAqi6XcAvzlYmATlwuctuCHJLZyGKN8OHgePYMDB9WSe2nIl5RQHLl22mDTQDN48Z12Dn7vjcknwlkFPtufAQNmsVznlaeAyR0V4pFVHF3Yu3jzPe97lNO7/s1600/04+Beverly+%26+Pete,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0056.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492043971210397042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0Z_ww3sjX6lrA_I-6tunGDAqi6XcAvzlYmATlwuctuCHJLZyGKN8OHgePYMDB9WSe2nIl5RQHLl22mDTQDN48Z12Dn7vjcknwlkFPtufAQNmsVznlaeAyR0V4pFVHF3Yu3jzPe97lNO7/s400/04+Beverly+%26+Pete,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0056.JPG" /></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></p></span><p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><p align="justify">Surrounded by his family on stage that included Beverly, Pete’s wife of 60 years, the music was about to begin.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-i3-bc3RrI5kS4aYDTREEvmUosd2r75BUAfRgndF6iYhpzV3pzCX3WDnExnRfDsT4Bl-EOcqQBqt7wyvn5ZJAPqdhBxTqk6cdg32MU9eVjwq5CRsPMNagYEn-biqQKw_DaUpXwe192VJK/s1600/07+Pete--exchanging+a+kiss+with+his+daughter,+Darrell.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492044508103134706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-i3-bc3RrI5kS4aYDTREEvmUosd2r75BUAfRgndF6iYhpzV3pzCX3WDnExnRfDsT4Bl-EOcqQBqt7wyvn5ZJAPqdhBxTqk6cdg32MU9eVjwq5CRsPMNagYEn-biqQKw_DaUpXwe192VJK/s400/07+Pete--exchanging+a+kiss+with+his+daughter,+Darrell.jpg" /></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></p></span><br /><p align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><p align="justify"><br><br><br>Pete's daughter Darah wishing her dad all the best with a birthday kiss.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLl9KGWiLiRVVEEc6f4I1j431GMomylxM01YQ97n9N0nkof8Y58J7FMcsBZmCOO6x-0k7rOVV6ydh2AZEm7_Fr8dszY6ZLxKemHaLQcGTUUAnkER_wjeNLqt1Noi4n4mFJwAHCTD4wvGmL/s1600/06+Boeddinghaus,+Young,+Genevay,+Pete+just+before+the+show,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0057.JPG"><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492045092679208674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLl9KGWiLiRVVEEc6f4I1j431GMomylxM01YQ97n9N0nkof8Y58J7FMcsBZmCOO6x-0k7rOVV6ydh2AZEm7_Fr8dszY6ZLxKemHaLQcGTUUAnkER_wjeNLqt1Noi4n4mFJwAHCTD4wvGmL/s400/06+Boeddinghaus,+Young,+Genevay,+Pete+just+before+the+show,+80th+birthday+party+7-03-10_0057.JPG" /></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />Now to the music. The concert was broken up into 3 sets.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimrBTuDhjEHBRMfdPh0SmCqZPreM3GpljKE6dqnlXWInBxD3NV3Eubp3nErebliTgwhY1MYzLVW_kflMoOmP53Q3JGMWFzG3TsqT_u20gHvn9VlKWFx1FOngVN0LzNq3LoDLBQ4tCyixf_/s1600/09+Pete+enjoying+Connie+Jones.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492045531897863154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimrBTuDhjEHBRMfdPh0SmCqZPreM3GpljKE6dqnlXWInBxD3NV3Eubp3nErebliTgwhY1MYzLVW_kflMoOmP53Q3JGMWFzG3TsqT_u20gHvn9VlKWFx1FOngVN0LzNq3LoDLBQ4tCyixf_/s400/09+Pete+enjoying+Connie+Jones.jpg" /></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></p></span><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br><br><br><br><br><br>For the first set the band sans Pete opened up with <span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>"Fidgety Feet"</em></span> followed by traditional jazz standards including <span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>"Together".</em></span><br /></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy283Ezbk_FRKT8uMe6mYDdwdwofribSVJC3Qxgd5GO0ceL_7pQfb6QKGXZ5McBfzyZcEDixfxBFqWbtOo0KCuGVNsfcwdBDfc7MLVCCPHETOE7PKgrpv66cfS2WaHUO6wX84z3TXKJoul/s1600/10+Pete+enjoying+a+cup+of+wine,+Connie+Jones+cornet.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492045882980335602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy283Ezbk_FRKT8uMe6mYDdwdwofribSVJC3Qxgd5GO0ceL_7pQfb6QKGXZ5McBfzyZcEDixfxBFqWbtOo0KCuGVNsfcwdBDfc7MLVCCPHETOE7PKgrpv66cfS2WaHUO6wX84z3TXKJoul/s400/10+Pete+enjoying+a+cup+of+wine,+Connie+Jones+cornet.jpg" /></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><p align="justify"><br><br><br><br><br><br>After the break when the raffle and birthday cake festivities took place, Pete joined the band. The anticipation of the second set riveted the crowd.<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfJmBrbn6drfqVKodvkHO4k2Pfv7Jac3_M6_hg8bZkMBmzv1sKdHlny0pyRO4NvYSZuJ2m7_Lv7yfvQzraujH_vIAhdg4jC7Y3zdrRPciWaBhGT4765K_TOLLp2hSF0cD8tfWqqJPZPgU/s1600/11+Pete+exclaiming+his+trademark+HELP+after+soloing.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492046241493018242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfJmBrbn6drfqVKodvkHO4k2Pfv7Jac3_M6_hg8bZkMBmzv1sKdHlny0pyRO4NvYSZuJ2m7_Lv7yfvQzraujH_vIAhdg4jC7Y3zdrRPciWaBhGT4765K_TOLLp2hSF0cD8tfWqqJPZPgU/s400/11+Pete+exclaiming+his+trademark+HELP+after+soloing.jpg" /></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><p align="justify"><br><br><br><br><br><br>Pete’s live appearances in New Orleans have become a rarity. Television cameras from the local TV stations were on hand to capture the event. The band opened with and burned up <span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>"Clarinet Marmalade". </em></span><br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVJT_7pqryej1_aD3x1eFReAndHzfFda-R7B_sK379xPXFB3MQFo463Gdq61hnQvhDszCHLUUhjywQHjtEXgq4fv_N5TaPebmNUfbdEoMVf_Mw3Vm8EX9JPsp1WbABLZ1779YGjqdO_20/s1600/21+Pete--soloing+on+Lazy+River.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492046624268279890" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVJT_7pqryej1_aD3x1eFReAndHzfFda-R7B_sK379xPXFB3MQFo463Gdq61hnQvhDszCHLUUhjywQHjtEXgq4fv_N5TaPebmNUfbdEoMVf_Mw3Vm8EX9JPsp1WbABLZ1779YGjqdO_20/s400/21+Pete--soloing+on+Lazy+River.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></p><br /><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br><br><br>Pete fired up the next tune on <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">"Up the Lazy River"</span></em> that included solos from members of the band: <strong>Connie Jones</strong> (cor), <strong>Tim Laughlin</strong> (cl), <strong>Mike Genevay</strong> (tb), <strong>Otis Bazoon</strong> (ts), <strong>Allyn Young</strong> (g), <strong>David Boeddinghaus</strong> (p), <strong>Kerry Lewis</strong> (b), and <strong>Bryan Barberot</strong> (dr).<br /></p></span><p align="justify"><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><br /><p align="center"><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">The band members doing their solos</span></p><br /><p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6dl4FJGLRDcs8C-pI7snpqdP4hyLh6zX2cTxblp9kFJNSSWS06iulKC1EB0ahoX0EIEYg26scrnHuKIe9leoanvKzxwDUVpIXTTv257hpYeYLKZE_AylQWorbLnHmmyVFUtDnihPoGXCE/s1600/20+Pete--Otis+Bazoon.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492050172851996754" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Dd7Or5vK8ey5GpjDDGqWS6gI_nb-VwSTReT7UINQ4fF7YrYTqlYd6_kRqzk6s7wcTSProwJIxeESZ1oVzN-gXbd7iIy_Kd3YHfWHopJtIhxvtsmFTtUSPvpZ3TkHbSnb1yUD01n9VBYi/s400/13+Pete--Greg+Harrison,+Tim+Laughlin,+Pete.jpg" /></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br><br><br><br><br><br />Unannounced guest clarinetist, <strong>Greg Harrison</strong>, hailing from the Washington, DC area, joined in emoting bluesy warmth.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHalzOx3JoVN060mlcQKMPQM2XXMiFibuOb1wUmZA3Qoln1dFZnVJbgiXr_Gw4SMxYCTy7a_XJ4APIq60xePi_Y_7DrH_D2tbpgzXT5xqYbGAIwuv9WWxoQlZAvb8ksLOi7eCdfBTQc8X/s1600/08+Pete--Danielle+Harrell+Scheib+tapping+and+dancing+on+St.+Louis+Blues.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492050417884561682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHalzOx3JoVN060mlcQKMPQM2XXMiFibuOb1wUmZA3Qoln1dFZnVJbgiXr_Gw4SMxYCTy7a_XJ4APIq60xePi_Y_7DrH_D2tbpgzXT5xqYbGAIwuv9WWxoQlZAvb8ksLOi7eCdfBTQc8X/s400/08+Pete--Danielle+Harrell+Scheib+tapping+and+dancing+on+St.+Louis+Blues.jpg" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br><br><br><br><br><br>But Pete had one more trick up his sleeve. Granddaughter and professional dancer, <strong>Danielle Harrell</strong> <strong>Scheib</strong>, bounced up on stage and spiritedly tapped complementary rhythms to<span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><em><span style="font-family:georgia;">"St Louis Blues";</span> </em>scores of digital cameras flashed as the TV cameras rolled.<br /></span></p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><p><br /><br />Conclusion, no Pete Fountain concert would be complete without Pete’s soulful interpretation of <em><span style="font-family:georgia;">"Just a Closer Walk With Thee",</span></em> <em></em>which is exactly what Pete rendered after which he bid everyone goodbye. He gave the packed house more than what they had come for - a soon to be not forgotten magical 80th birthday celebration that only Pete could possibly deliver. And deliver he did. </span><br /></p><p></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>John Titsworth, a New Orleans resident, is a frequent contributor to this blog. His contributions are appreciated, we thank you!</em></span><br /></p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-3660466180567393782010-07-05T15:24:00.005-04:002010-07-05T15:32:34.039-04:00Pete Fountain Birthday Bash and Music in New Orleans Sat. July 3 - News<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Pete Fountain Birthday Bash and Music in New Orleans Sat. July 3</span><br /></strong><em><a href="http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2010/07/pete_fountain_and_shamarr_alle.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">by Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune</span></a></em></span></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Clarinetist Pete Fountain, Mr. New Orleans, ranks among the Crescent City’s most beloved musicians. Cutting up on the old Lawrence Welk show, goofing around with Johnny Carson and the gang, presiding over nightclubs on Bourbon Street and in the Hilton Riverside, marching with his Half Fast Walking Club each Mardi Gras morning, entertaining popes and presidents - he’s done it all while conjuring some of the sweetest jazz to ever emerge from a clarinet. Fountain performs twice a month at the Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis, Miss.; his hometown shows are mostly at festivals. But on Saturday afternoon, Fountain plans to celebrate his 80th birthday with a special 3 p.m. performance at Rock ’n’ Bowl. He’ll share the stage with clarinetist Tim Laughlin and cornetist Connie Jones. </span></p><p align="justify"></p><p align="justify">Pete Fountain celebrates his 80th birthday at Mid City Rock-n-Bowl in New Orleans with Tim Laughlin, Connie Jones and Co. July 3, 2010. Some You-Tube videos:</p><p align="center"><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z6nht6cwBG8&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z6nht6cwBG8&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Clarinet Marmalade<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dHcjhnxvDrE&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dHcjhnxvDrE&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Struttin' with Some Barbecue<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L32QJ2RTiZs&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L32QJ2RTiZs&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Pete's granddaughter Danielle tap dances as the band wails on St. Louis Blues<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xa70WknCp0A&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xa70WknCp0A&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Basin Street Blues<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ctginj1bOPE&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ctginj1bOPE&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Up a Lazy River<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hdi1jDPpqrE&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hdi1jDPpqrE&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Do You Ever Think of Me? </p><br /><p></p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-36723001056423075002010-07-03T00:00:00.002-04:002010-07-02T15:39:39.219-04:00Pete Fountain's 80th Birthday - News<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreI_OezhbxmhzlDc3JePM4CV9QoMX0gV4SMU6ylFNvh22SasSOAjFKnvcpU-b2kK1aHdK-Kbwuf2xU2ySK3mE0lWTOjUGING2L5Rj2EgmpZbEpT48rp2gnToEA7zNPTUAkPD-lRJxDht2/s1600/pete1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 222px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 377px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489395426231060082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreI_OezhbxmhzlDc3JePM4CV9QoMX0gV4SMU6ylFNvh22SasSOAjFKnvcpU-b2kK1aHdK-Kbwuf2xU2ySK3mE0lWTOjUGING2L5Rj2EgmpZbEpT48rp2gnToEA7zNPTUAkPD-lRJxDht2/s400/pete1.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7K3cuTvk-yx6Chc1ulHhNup5WS8QKAzf5re96p3MXaCuJc4MZ5xOYe01vDWumRu9_3b8jZ1SqS7jFykqABBJe87NahvggGmdmDfZb0UU_Z8RcLoxAQfiYdFDDgGQiZ1qEIXNt1mnqMoz6/s1600/One.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="color:#000066;">Happy</span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">80th</span> <span style="color:#009900;">Birthday</span> <span style="color:#cc33cc;">Pete!</span></strong></span></div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRJV_Mk1PO_2HY9vZtqD9QtLcky-jcNtpFwnoukiL5c3mFjb6TIZP5_UVN7F_VaeuDwjnKGxM6l0xj-fKixLVEmKqh66pzsvA0-DHQLILDdr7Ve63c0a_Gs1jjnsnk1561spDXVMik6BUj/s1600-h/pete20092.jpg"></a></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Pete Fountain, Jazz Clarinetist, was born on July 3, 1930 in New Orleans. He has entertained us for decades and we all wish him the best.</span><br /><p align="right"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikjY-X0daeMsUJZrq2uxFgiCSRIigwuyTVFCBkmii9S1-HkGyYWZnQ4Mg3FskhLzheCoW1ElUBVl12AiHxlCI7xOv_-_xz9ml8cJVFcRAzR5Dc1PxSbAZkb5s_J5OHh0HeqwhNn4i-2V7g/s1600-h/pete20092.jpg"></a></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7Kp5iJ4McBaf4_C-Kxq6KlJoHY_N_fJr4z2ZjigB8JOTvslLdujTiWbyxw0hr_WgMdCLqSgRtJ6C-FOIN_Im1piXgXYjRf76uJOkLx3Uka34t2p-LVBaNZrycAIlgV6S7O8_CMKMsRaV/s1600/pete2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 297px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489395540055464482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7Kp5iJ4McBaf4_C-Kxq6KlJoHY_N_fJr4z2ZjigB8JOTvslLdujTiWbyxw0hr_WgMdCLqSgRtJ6C-FOIN_Im1piXgXYjRf76uJOkLx3Uka34t2p-LVBaNZrycAIlgV6S7O8_CMKMsRaV/s400/pete2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgmIKn5xyTHJ-8VtYrpzX1agxN_uM511PFi-t9x5SqA4_lOWCH5E764u9w6dO48gfei7ha3KAwJXySJWlvpzygqM2bCkIdtchxQHtn-_ToWvM-LWzsIIFbJnMZt3Z1ofK_M0zXe_qTr_QQ/s1600-h/baby.jpg"></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">We wish Pete a happy <strong>80<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span></strong> birthday, and may he continue to "toot" and make music for many more years.</span><br /></div><div align="justify"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><em></em></span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><em></em></span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><em>Pete's Baby Photo</em></span> </p></div>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-22606387804524191992010-07-02T11:24:00.010-04:002010-12-25T12:38:33.844-05:00A Pete Fountain Birthday Card Video: Tim Laughlin on his Mentor<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:180%;">A Pete Fountain Birthday Card Video<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">from Tim Laughlin on his Mentor</span></span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div align="justify"><br /><br />Times-Picayune videographer John McCusker interviews local clarinetist Tim Laughlin on the importance that jazz legend Pete Fountain has played in his life in this remembrance in celebration of Fountain's 80th birthday.</span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div align="center"><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/duWUBleBVOQ?hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/duWUBleBVOQ?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Courtesty of http://www.nola.com/<br /></div></span>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-39754042660227427062010-06-25T11:23:00.007-04:002010-12-25T18:16:34.236-05:00Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Walking Club<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"><strong>Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Walking Club<br />Mardi Gras 2010</strong></span><br /></div><div align="center"><table style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><tbody><tr><td><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#293546;" > </span></td></tr><tr><td><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nXpb9qGzSx4?hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nXpb9qGzSx4?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Courtesy of the </span><a href="http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2010/02/video_pete_fountain.html"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Time-Picayune</span></a></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><br /><p></p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-78684846639767951762010-06-03T12:30:00.004-04:002010-06-03T12:51:21.512-04:00Pete Fountain and Tim Laughlin: The Fat Sound - News<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Pete Fountain and Tim Laughlin: The Fat Sound</span></strong><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"><em>01 May 2010 - by David Kunian of OffBEAT</em></span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div align="justify"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhYhxq93QyWD5XQ6Y6bpsIpdDEBzOUcdfq8mBraIl94Qi1nCLwD2qq9HgYLQkbxFfv5xnGVfUf6sGUKev-fSZK380FHlvNbge8aUYwBrxGwFzB1IzJNCys_Fnz8RzChVUChIBoatz1m3Vm/s1600/fountain-laughlin.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 267px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478585704851371682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhYhxq93QyWD5XQ6Y6bpsIpdDEBzOUcdfq8mBraIl94Qi1nCLwD2qq9HgYLQkbxFfv5xnGVfUf6sGUKev-fSZK380FHlvNbge8aUYwBrxGwFzB1IzJNCys_Fnz8RzChVUChIBoatz1m3Vm/s400/fountain-laughlin.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Once away from the strip malls and family businesses that alternate on Highway 90, the road to the Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi winds through the swampy woods until it rises at the back of a parking lot. For a casino, it is a modest one with a hotel on one side and ceilings against which a basketball player might knock his head above the constant "ching-ching" of the slot machines. Past the entrance, there is a clear spot with several cocktail tables facing a stage with a bar directly in front. The audience sits, drinks and listens. The music, although not out of place in this part of the world, seems a little out of place at the Hollywood. This is not where you would think to hear music 50 years old in the 21st Century. Yet, on the first Tuesday and Wednesday of each month, this stage is the only place fans get to hear the twin tandem clarinets of the world famous Pete Fountain and the soon-to-be world famous Tim Laughlin.<br /><br />Fountain and Laughlin do many of the New Orleans traditional jazz standards, sometimes trading choruses, sometimes playing melodies in unison. There is something special going on here. It is easy to see when Laughlin the Earnest Acolyte and Fountain the Hip Wizard exchange glances and smiles, and when they don’t. Either way, the music weaves in and out almost as if each of them knows what the other is about to do. It goes beyond telepathy and borders on instinct.<br /><br />The story of Pete Fountain might be well known to the generations that came up when he played in the Dukes of Dixieland or was the featured soloist on The Lawrence Welk Show in the 1960s. Maybe they bought his records <em>"Walking Through New Orleans"</em> or <em>"South Rampart Street Parade."</em> Maybe they remember hearing him on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, or going by his club in the French Quarter in the 1960s and 1970s, or the Hilton in the 1980s and 1990s. Some paraded with his infamous Half-Fast Walking Club on Mardi Gras.<br /><br />Over lunch with Fountain at the Hotel Monteleone, Tim Laughlin confesses, <em>"It was my 17th birthday. My family and I were having dinner at the Hilton. I snuck up to his club and started listening. Actually I talked to his son Jeff, and I said, ‘Do you think I can meet Pete?’ He says, ‘Yeah, come by after the show.’ I ran back down to tell my family, ‘I’m going to meet Pete Fountain.’"</em> Laughlin ran back upstairs and by the time his family followed, he was in Fountain’s office.<br /><br />Laughlin had grown up listening to his father’s Pete Fountain records, and they had a great effect on him.<em> "That sound,"</em> he says. <em>"That’s Pete Fountain. His Mardi Gras record was a great album to play along to. I wore that out."</em> As Laughlin tells this story, Fountain sits to his left and smiles.<br /><br /><em>"For an entire year, I was too young to get into the club, so they would have a chair outside for me,"</em> Laughlin continues. <em>"I would make a reservation like, ‘This is Tim. I’m coming in tonight.’ They’d have a chair outside, and I’d sit and hear the music. The funny thing is that Wimpy, the doorman, would say, ‘Hey, kid, you want something to drink?’ He was thinking I was going to have a coke and..." </em>Pete interrupts, laughing.<em> "He didn’t want a coke. He wanted a beer!"</em> They both laugh. <em>"So he would bring me a beer,"</em> Laughlin says.<em> "I used to haunt him every couple weeks. I could have been some loon. Pete always treated me great."<br /></em><br />By the time Laughlin met Fountain, he had already been playing clarinet since the age of nine. He’s played with many of the New Orleans greats, including Fountain, the Dukes of Dixieland and Jack Maheu. Recently, his records have been marked with a number of original songs, putting him in the company of Matt Perrine, Rick Trolsen, Evan Christopher and Tom McDermott as people who are adding to the repertoire of New Orleans traditional jazz instead of playing the standards. He is the latest in a long line of white clarinet players that reaches back to Leon Rappolo and moves to Irving Fazola and then to Fountain. Laughlin has been influenced by all those players as well as Benny Goodman, Jack Maheu and cornetist Connie Jones. But the main person that Tim patterns his playing off of is Fountain.<br /><br />But it’s not just the playing; they share several traits. According to Tom McDermott, who has done gigs and sessions with both, <em>"Tim’s a real people person and Pete is a down-to-earth, regular guy. He’s a regular guy who happens to be world famous."</em><br /><br />Connie Jones, who has played with both and has known Fountain since 1950, agrees that both are <em>"very self-effacing and very gracious."</em> Both of them also have a great sense of humor. When talking about what makes Laughlin a good player, Fountain jokes, <em>"He has a wife who likes clarinet players. Like mine."</em> When asked whether he is passing down anything to Tim, Fountain says, laughing, <em>"I hope so. I gave him one of my clarinets."<br /></em><br />At the Hollywood Casino, it is evident to the audience that this is not simply another casino act. The band looks like a caricature of a bored Vegas act, but everyone performs like the music matters. Fountain and Laughlin play with a tone that can only come from years of searching and practicing. Fountain’s is a little reedy at times, but still beautiful. Laughlin’s is gorgeous, like a warm shower on a sunny day. It is obvious to band members and observers that Fountain is passing the proverbial torch to Laughlin, but what exactly does that mean? That cliché does not by itself illuminate what is being exchanged between these two musicians. When asked later about it, Fountain says of Laughlin,<em> "He can do it. He can play with anybody. He doesn’t need me."<br /></em><br />Laughlin says, <em>"I think the most important thing Pete passed down is the fat sound. That’s the New Orleans sound. Fazola had it. Johnny Dodds had it. Jimmie Noone. That’s what I got from Pete was the fat sound to fill up the horn, the big sound."</em> Fountain adds, <em>"I got it from Fazola. It’s gone from one end to the other."<br /></em><br />But, according to Fountain, there is another element to the clarinet besides getting that New Orleans sound. Laughlin says, <em>"He would tell me to get my own sound and listen to other guys."</em> The idea of developing a unique, recognizable sound seems to be the most important piece of wisdom that has passed between the two, and that is something that is discounted in the music world these days. Developing that sound is not easy, though. <em>"It takes a while because the sound pretty much comes from your head,"</em> Laughlin says.<em> "You have to hear it before, and it’s kind of a unique thing when you find it."<br /></em><br /><em>"He knows it,"</em> Fountain says. <em>"He has the sound. No problem there. He’s got that locked up. I don’t have to teach him that."</em> Laughlin agrees. Other than encouraging him to develop a signature sound,<em> "Pete never once gave me advice,"</em> Laughlin says. <em> "Never had to,"</em> Fountain chimes in. <em>"Nobody gave him advice. I just tell him ‘Don’t drink too much.’"</em> Quickly, Tim replies, laughing, <em>"That’s the only thing where I didn’t listen to him." </em><br /><br />Tim also says that he learned from Fountain’s professionalism onstage. <em>"The way he treats the musicians and how he treats the audience,"</em> Laughlin says. <em>"I’ll never forget: One time I was at the Hilton, and there was a guy who was talking real loud. Pete did the coolest thing. He took two steps back, and all you heard was this guy talking, ‘Yar yar yar...’ and suddenly everybody is like, ‘Sssshhhhh.’ Then Pete came back to the microphone and everyone applauded. I was like, "Okay, I want to do that some day."<br /></em><br />Connie Jones says that Fountain has taught Laughlin <em>"sounds and notes and knowing your role. You know your role and how to play your role. There’s a difference between jazz choruses and playing ensemble choruses. You have a certain role to play in an ensemble and a different role to play in your solos. It’s knowing that, and learning how to do that is the most important part of being a good, successful jazz musician. Tim has learned that very well."</em><br /><br />Jones also thinks that Fountain’s support has helped Laughlin. <em>"Tim was able to play at an early age,"</em> says Jones, <em>"and I think the thing that Pete gave him was the encouragement to keep going. It’s been a continual learning process, and a good learning process for Tim. Now it’s almost the other way around. Tim is right there when Pete needs him. If Pete needs Tim to take over at a certain place, Tim is available and jumps right in. There is no visible loss of quality."<br /></em><br />Even though neither one will say it, there is a small amount of the jazz mystique that passes between the two of them. Tom McDermott puts it like this: <em>"I think there is something more than the notes. Just to talk to people with the experience that guys like Pete or Connie Jones have had, to have been on the stage with Louis Armstrong or to have met Duke Ellington and hear about all the people that these guys have consorted with. The stories-it’s great. It’s like the people you’ve read about come alive when you hear them talk. Pete, he’s been a star for 50 years. And he’s still a rock star around New Orleans."</em><br /><br />And he’s still a rock star at the Hollywood Casino. The audience applauds as they recognize the first notes of Fountain’s hit version of <em>"Just a Closer Walk with Thee."</em> At a certain point in time, this was the hippest thing going, and then it wasn’t, and now that doesn’t matter. It’s simply great music, and Laughlin and Fountain are giving it their all. Fountain still has that cool swankiness to him that is a great contrast to Laughlin’s earnest enthusiasm. Fountain moves haltingly back to his stool when he finishes his solo, but he’s still solid. And there is something still absolutely hip about him. He knows what’s good and what’s cool and is confident about it without any ego.<br /><br /><em>"Just a Closer Walk with Thee"</em> finishes up and the band begins the last song of the set, <em>"When the Saints Go Marching In,"</em> of course. Fountain and Laughlin play the chorus, then Fountain steps back, snapping his fingers and smiling. He has played this song a million times and he’s still enjoying it. He’s here, in the moment, and there is nothing phony about this performance at the Hollywood Casino off a back road on the Gulf Coast in Bay St. Louis. He’s enjoying himself, and why not? He’s still here despite a heart attack, a mild stroke and advancing age. He’s still got the music, that fat sound, and a great musician in Tim Laughlin who will make sure that the sound will continue.<br /><br /><em>"It’s a cool thing to make a living standing next to a legend and playing with him,"</em> Laughlin says. <em>"A guy I first heard and didn’t know who he was, but it was that sound. It wasn’t because he was famous. It was because he could play."</em><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>Reprint courtesy of </em></span><a href="http://www.offbeat.com/"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>OffBEAT Louisiana Music and Culture </em></span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>article by by David Kunian<br />Pete Fountain and Tim Laughlin photo by Elsa Hahne.</em></span> </span><br /></div></span>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-6026859291826273282010-05-23T18:08:00.005-04:002010-05-23T19:23:38.419-04:00Monk Hazel And His New Orleans Jazz Kings - GHB Records<br><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Monk Hazel And His New Orleans Jazz Kings</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><em><strong>featuring Pete Fountain</strong></em></span><br><br /></div></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4JMTP_47rDqx3hTYy-KEPAWoNMUJAaIdVs0PWWQ-u_LtHwSw6YndY2Z_6eXJKvR0wsbPAjVzuxlxBsb68Rg5I87jKfljqPy_zfIAt5sNrPNFQ6eTjClte7I2g5Lay8NkCr6PUe-noiDvP/s1600/front.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474593827448276834" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4JMTP_47rDqx3hTYy-KEPAWoNMUJAaIdVs0PWWQ-u_LtHwSw6YndY2Z_6eXJKvR0wsbPAjVzuxlxBsb68Rg5I87jKfljqPy_zfIAt5sNrPNFQ6eTjClte7I2g5Lay8NkCr6PUe-noiDvP/s400/front.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOVpWHEWq0jBmEPu1kI0IyN0zu_xi6VvPr-y6P12Ii0ssg4QdyBhLVz0dgvAIVdniALuauoKiEmCYd5DHQKdbO5L_4Zs7PhYXV9VR-bseDWkLxoiPTfQMX70Y7vFKk3rD0W8IuSK2EvdrL/s1600/Back.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 399px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474608105212741522" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOVpWHEWq0jBmEPu1kI0IyN0zu_xi6VvPr-y6P12Ii0ssg4QdyBhLVz0dgvAIVdniALuauoKiEmCYd5DHQKdbO5L_4Zs7PhYXV9VR-bseDWkLxoiPTfQMX70Y7vFKk3rD0W8IuSK2EvdrL/s400/Back.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">2009 GHB Records BDC-117</span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div align="justify"><br />Drummer Monk Hazel is joined on these two sessions, recorded in 1955 and 1957, by the then unknown trumpeter Al Hirt and clarinetist Pete Fountain. The 13 tracks here represent Hazel's full recorded output as a leader and include 5 songs unreleased before.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">CD Listing:<br />1. Panama<br />2. Of All the Wrongs<br />3. I Used to Love You<br />4. Long Way to Tipperary<br />5. Gypsy Love Song [#] unreleased<br /><br />Personnel on tracks 1 -5:<br />Al Hirt - <em>Trumpet</em><br />Jack Delaney - <em>Trombone </em><br />Pete Fountain - <em>Clarinet</em><br />Joe Capraro- <em>Guitar</em><br />Roy Zimmerman- <em>Piano</em><br />Phil Darois - <em>String Bass</em><br />Monk Hazel - <em>Drums - Mellophone</em><br />Rita St Claire - <em>Vocal</em><br /><br />6. Angry<br />7. Basin Street Blues<br />8. Let Me Call You Sweetheart<br />9. When You're Smiling<br />10. Ja Da #1 [#] unreleased<br />11. Ja Da #2 [#] unreleased<br />12. Kiss Me Again [#] unreleased<br />13. Sin to Tell a Lie [#] unreleased<br /><br />Personnel on tracks 6 -13:<br />Dutch Andrus - <em>Trumpet<br /></em>Jack Delaney - <em>Trombone</em><br />Harry Shields - <em>Clarinet</em><br />Roy Zimmerman - <em>Piano</em><br />Chink Martin - <em>Bass - Tuba</em><br />Monk Hazel - <em>Drums</em><br />Jackie Blaine - <em>Vocal</em><br /></span></strong><br /><em><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Liner Notes:<br /></span></strong></em><br />Certain types of musicians are born to be legends. People like Buddy Bolden, Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo, Larry Shields and Monk Hazel are the stuff that jazz dreams are made of. But of the quintet names above, Little Monk is the only one left on this sphere, still sparking great jazz combinations. Always insufficiently recorded in years gone by in fact his last recording session fronting his own band dates back to December 1928 when he waxed four sides under the name of "Monk Hazel and his Bienville Roof Garden". Monk's work is mainly remembered by those fortunate enough to see him in person here or on his occasional sensational forays into New York, Chicago, or Hollywood.<br /><br />If you're one of those unfortunates who have been told so many times, "You should have been here last night! Monk Hazel was on the stand" you'll welcome these nine sides, because they're just the way he played the night you missed him. Principally famed as the greatest of Dixieland drummers, Monk is also celebrated for his work on cornet and e-flat valve trombone plus his great mellophone solo's one which you will hear on the tune "It's A Long Way To Tipperary."<br /><br />You'll be knocked out, nevertheless, by the unique Hazel beat as present herein, occupying the spotlight in the rhythm section that includes not only the tuba work on side two by Chink Martin, Sr. but the string bass of Phil Darois with that fabulous beat which has become identified with music generating in this Crescent City.<br /><br />On both sessions you hear Roy Zimmerman the veteran New Orleans piano man stressing sustained improvisation in middle and upper register and extracting rich tones from the piano bass. On clarinet side two fresh from the critical acclaim heaped on his melodious horn in all of the jazz periodical, following his first Southland appearance with the Johnny Wiggs Group (S-LP 200), you'll hear Harry Shields even more carefully recorded, and full of the quiet fire that made for him an overnight world-wide reputation. You'll never get his solo on the verse to "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" out of your mind.<br /><br />On Side One the big tone of Pete Fountain clarinet who reminds one of the late and great Irving Fazola, and it is a rare privilege to be able to present him now surrounded by men of his own caliber in his finest recorded performance. Jack Delaney's fluent trombone (heard on both sides) which has in the past year captured the fancies and hearts of all of New Orleans, alternates flexibly between "Tailgate" and "High Register" in a manner that confounds so many of the older heads here and then tosses in solos full of freshness and facility rivalling Brunis and Teagarden.<br /><br />The driving trumpet you'll hear on Side One is a rare treat. Al Hirt has been a outstanding "job" musician around New Orleans for many a year. Obviously for no good reason, he's never been recorded with a Dixieland band before. You'll be shocked, when you hear this wonderful horn to realize that a jazzman of this caliber can get lost in any city. Southland apologizes for the whole record industry, but offers Al Hirt here in his highly successful disc debut. On Side Two you hear Dutch Andrus on trumpet, a current start in his own right carries this session along in masterly fashion. Dutch has established himself already as one of New Orleans outstanding jazzmen. He sat regularly with the town's finest, and they love to play with his typically New Orleans lead horn. On Side One you hear the top man in his field today on guitar "Joe Capraro" with his big full tone and stimulated rhythm.<br /><br />Southland was so impressed with the fine singing of Rita St Claire that we took this opportunity to offer her to you. On Side One you will hear Rita St Claire backed by this exciting Dixieland ensemble in "All The Wrongs You Done To Me" and "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" - you hear this gorgeous voice. She is a natural, her singing is effortless, her pitch true, her tone full and thrilling.<br /><br />On Side Two you hear the great blues singer Jackie Blaine giving Spencer Williams great blues "Basin Street Blues" a grand treatment.<br /><br />Joe Mares, Jr. </span></div><br>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954202829886908859.post-63102099812842643672010-05-22T14:00:00.002-04:002010-05-22T14:03:51.965-04:00The Very Best of Pete Fountain - Unlimited Media<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color:#000099;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">The Very Best of Pete Fountain</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Unlimited Media</span></strong><br /></span></div><p align="center"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBV-GHSHTuQWSb1Rmo9MR_7mM15fdy2VWirjmhn8z8EDq8z9wrE3_XU-Ot-GWD_grCvS9W3Fcuevb99oDJEIgavV_qNsuAadkaV62S6tuWZwzdvCl-zAgTqLnGfJZgMMmEE7I_2AYlLcDY/s1600/front.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474156036596290706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBV-GHSHTuQWSb1Rmo9MR_7mM15fdy2VWirjmhn8z8EDq8z9wrE3_XU-Ot-GWD_grCvS9W3Fcuevb99oDJEIgavV_qNsuAadkaV62S6tuWZwzdvCl-zAgTqLnGfJZgMMmEE7I_2AYlLcDY/s400/front.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Very Best of Pete Fountain<br />Record Label: Unlimited Media<br />Originally released: 12-08-2008</span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><strong>1. Dobro Moon<br />2. Margie<br />3. Going Home<br />4. Jazz Me Blues<br />5. South Rampart Street Parade<br />6. That's a Plenty<br />7. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise<br />8. The Lazy River<br />9. Bugle Call Rag<br />10. Farewell Blues<br />11. High Society<br />12. When the Saints Go Marching in</strong></span></p><p> </p>David Mekalianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722347392009460647noreply@blogger.com0