LC control no. | n 85239404 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Fountain, Pete |
Variant(s) | Fountain, Peter Dewey, Jr. |
See also | Corporate body: New Orleans All Stars (Musical group : Pete Fountain) |
Birth date | 1930-07-03 |
Death date | 2016-08-06 |
Place of birth | New Orleans (La.) |
Place of death | New Orleans (La.) |
Field of activity | Jazz Dixieland music |
Profession or occupation | Clarinetists Jazz musicians |
Found in | New Orleans, 1985: t.p. (Pete Fountain) LC data base, 9/19/85 (hdg.: Fountain, Pete; usage: Pete Fountain) Grove music online, Oct. 17, 2006: Jazz (Fountain, Pete(r Dewey, Jr.); b. July 3, 1930, New Orleans; American clarinetist) New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 8, 2016 (in obituary published Aug. 6: Pete Fountain; b. Peter Dewey Fountain Jr., July 3, 1930, New Orleans; d. there Saturday [Aug. 6, 2016], aged 86; clarinetist who brought the traditional jazz of his native New Orleans to a national audience through frequent appearances on the Lawrence Welk and Johnny Carson television shows; the appeal of his high-spirited brand of Dixieland stretched far beyond New Orleans) |