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 ...

Pete Fountain, New Orleans jazz clarinetist who appeared on “The Lawrence Welk Show” and “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” has died. He was 86. Fountain died of heart failure on Saturday in ...

NEW ORLEANS — Clarinetist Pete Fountain, whose Dixieland jazz virtuosity and irrepressible wit endeared him to his native New Orleans and earned him decades of national television fame, died of heart ...

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." ...