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Pete Fountain Jazz Great of New Orleans History
Pete Fountain, famed New Orleans clarinetist, rose from early family lessons to jam sessions on Bourbon Street. He played with the Dukes of Dixieland, joined the Lawrence Welk show, and now runs Bourbon Street cabaret Pete Fountain's French Quarter Inn while making selective TV appearances.
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