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Album Review

Pete Fountain with the New Lawrence Welk Orchestra: Big Band Blues

Read "Big Band Blues" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

When writing in a recent review about the scarcity of top–notch Jazz clarinetists on the scene today, I managed to overlook one — a pardonable error, as Pete Fountain has been sequestered for so long in his native New Orleans that it’s fairly easy for him to fly under one’s radar screen. Nevertheless, there’s no denying that Pete’s a master of his instrument, or that he’s quite comfortable in any context from duo to big band (even though he hadn’t ...

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Album Review

Pete Fountain: Pete Fountain A Touch Of Class

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 1999

New Orleans clarinetist Pete Fountain, takes us on a smooth ride with this CD as he performs some familiar classic Big Band tunes. The title of this CD: A Touch Of Class, caught my attention because having heard Pete Fountain for many years in a variety of diffrent bands and settings, I for one have associated Pete Fountain/clarinet/dixieland respectively in that order and still do.After purchasing this CD and then looking at the song titles as I was ...