Beverly Fountain, Pete Fountain’s widow, leaned over and planted a kiss on the portrait of her husband unveiled Saturday in the “Ancestors” area of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival grounds.

As the music world mourns the death of Pete Fountain, WYES is giving fans one more chance to take a closer walk with the legendary New Orleans clarinetist. In honor of Fountain, the local PBS station ...

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 ...

With his ready wit and infectious laugh, Fountain — who often appeared on Lawrence Welk and Johnny Carson's TV shows — was the epitome of the New Orleanian who knew how to "let the good times roll." ...