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Pete Fountain

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Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr. (July 3, 1930 – August 6, 2016), known professionally as Pete Fountain, was an American jazz clarinetist.
LaFontaine was born to Pierre, Sr. and Madeline, in a small Creole cottage-style frame house on White Street (between Dumaine Street and St. Ann Street) in New Orleans.Fountain, Pete, with Bill Neely, A Closer Walk, the Pete Fountain Story (Henry Regnery Company, 1972), p. 2-3 Pete was the great-grandson of a French immigrant, François Fontaine,... more

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