Though clarinetist Pete Fountain has long been a fixture on the New Orleans jazz scene, his greatest notoriety came from his 1957-1959 nationally televised appearances with the Lawrence Welk orchestra leading a small group playing traditional jazz. Fountain, a Benny Goodman disciple who plays the old standards with indefatigable fervor, is a fixture on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, leading the early morning parade down St. Charles Avenue with his "Half Fast" marching club. As Fountain walks, he plays the numbers on this record that comprise his standard repertoire--"While We Danced at the Mardi Gras," "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans," "Basin Street Blues," "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," "When the Saints Come Marching in March" and "St. Louis Blues." --John Swenson
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The Best of Pete Fountain
Pete Fountain Manufacturer: Verve ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003N4N Release Date: 1996-05-21 |
Tracks:
- While We Danced At The Mardi Gras
- A Closer Walk
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
- Facination Medley: Fascination/Basin Street Blues/Tin Roof Blues/Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
- China Boy (Go Sleep)
- Bye Bye Bill Bailey
- Lazy River
- Yes Indeed
- High Society
- Stranger On The Shore
- Over The Waves
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You
- My Blue Heaven
- Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
- For Pete's Sake
- When The Saints Come Marching In March
- St. Louis Blues
- When My Baby Smiles At Me
- Shrimp Boats
- Indiana (Back Home In Indiana)
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Though clarinetist Pete Fountain has long been a fixture on the New Orleans jazz scene, his greatest notoriety came from his 1957-1959 nationally televised appearances with the Lawrence Welk orchestra leading a small group playing traditional jazz. Fountain, a Benny Goodman disciple who plays the old standards with indefatigable fervor, is a fixture on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, leading the early morning parade down St. Charles Avenue with his "Half Fast" marching club. As Fountain walks, he plays the numbers on this record that comprise his standard repertoire--"While We Danced at the Mardi Gras," "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans," "Basin Street Blues," "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," "When the Saints Come Marching in March" and "St. Louis Blues." --John SwensonCustomer Reviews:
A Gift of Old Favorites.......2007-01-23
REALLY the Best.......2006-05-09
Fantastic cd.......2005-11-23
The master's best.......2004-07-25
On this CD (I actually have the audiocasette -- remember those?), the listener gets a good sampler of his best work. "While We Danced at the Mardi Gras" takes one right into the spirit of the festival in New Orleans.
"Closer Walk With Thee" takes a spiritual song and makes it a spiritual experience.
The "Fascination Medley" I like best for the "Fascination" part, which takes one on a soaring ride. I do wish it were not a medley, though, as that spoils the effect for me.
"Yes, Indeed!" makes me want to dance, even though I cannot.
I like the song "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You," which I usually associate with Dean Martin singing it, but Pete Fountain's rendition makes the words superfluous.
"My Blue Heaven" makes me want to sail the Caribbean, for somne reason.
"When the Saints Go Marching In" takes me to a New Orleans street funeral with all of its vacillation between melancholy grief and near-rapturous fervor.
When Pete Fountain plays the clarinet, it is truly a licorice stick to be savored, "Yes, Indeed!"
Hey! It's Pete,.......2003-01-01
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Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland
Pete Fountain Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000056PQL Release Date: 2001-01-23 |
Tracks:
- Mahogany Hall Stomp - Pete Fountain
- Tin Roof Blues - Pete Fountain
- My Inspiration - Pete Fountain
- Bye-Bye, Bill Bailey - Pete Fountain
- High Society - Pete Fountain
- Struttin' With Some Barbecue - Pete Fountain
- Dixie Jubilee - Pete Fountain
- South Rampart Street Parade - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- The Second Line - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- Basin Street Blues - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- The Darktown Strutters' Ball - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- Marching 'Round The Mountain - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- Over The Waves - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- Careless Love - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- Walking Through New Orleans - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- Sugar Bowl Parade - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- Farewell Blues - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- Washington And Lee Swing - Pete Fountain And His Mardi Gras Strutters
- The Mardi Gras Walking Club - Pete Fountain
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Pete Fountain's Best of Dixieland.......2006-03-03
Classical Dixieland.......2003-07-30
Each selection is 2-3 min., much shorter than Pete and his band play in concert.
South Rampart Street Parade is broken up with drum interludes.
Otherwise this is a great CD.
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The Very Best of Pete Fountain
Pete Fountain Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000AFJY Release Date: 1998-09-01 |
Tracks:
- Saint James Infirmary
- Margie
- Going Home
- Jazz Me Blues
- South Rampart Street Parade
- That's A Plenty
- All The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
- Up The Lazy River
- Bugle Call Rag
- Farewell Blues
- High Society
- When the Saints Go Marching In
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Wonderful Work, a Little Short.......2000-07-11
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Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland: Al Hirt
Pete Fountain Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000056PQZ Release Date: 2001-01-23 |
Tracks:
- The Original Dixieland One-Step
- Tin Roof Blues
- Royal Garden Blues
- Panama
- Blue And Broken-Hearted
- Wolverine Blues
- Washington And Lee Swing
- I'm Going Home
- Jazz Me Blues
- Night And Day
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Sugar
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One of the Greatest New Orleans, French Quarter, Mardi Gras-Styled Jazz CDs One is Likely to Ever Hear.......2007-01-02
Under normal circumstances, I suppose this fact about fishing together would be unimportant; but, it gives me something about Hirt's personal life, as does the part about Al's and Pete's laughably terrible tenure together as pest control exterminators when the jazz scene in Orleans was still scarce early in their relationship.
During my own, personal trumpet-playing years through junior high school--I played about four years--I looked up at Al "Jumbo" Hirt as a kid. And, like Hirt, I also went into the army, although I had other duties than playing a bugle or trumpet there: I had nine years beginning in 1997.
I once saw Al Hirt play live. It was July Fourth, probably around 1989 would be my guess. He came to Ormond Beach, the adjacent city--meaning next to--Daytona Beach in Florida--where I lived and went to school. Needless to say, I will never forget that experience for as long as I live. It was under the Granada Bridge, which is the largest bridge crossing the Intercoastal Waterway River, called the Halifax River in that part of Florida. It runs parallel to the Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach shoreline. Actually, that "beach side" of the river is only a few blocks wide. The largest bridge in the Daytona Beach area is the one that crosses the Halifax River in Ormond Beach: the Granada Bridge. At the foot of the eastern beach-side of the river, there was a large picnic-style festival with cotton candy, watermelon, and other stuff that one finds in a carnival-styled picnic. This festival was called Jazz-Matazz. There were several jazz musicians at the fest, one of them was a local who had come from the area. But, the highlight of this great jazz night was seeing Al Hirt with his band on the podium playing dixieland jazz. As dusk loomed over onto the west, I could see behind me thick crowds of spectators standing on Granada Bridge up to a mile back from where I was sitting, on the grass, and they loved the music. The crowds gathered there once Hirt-and-company started to play: talk about attracting a crowd! And so, Al Hirt played until the merriment of July Fourth fireworks of Ormond Beach went crashing onto the dark sky. Man, what a memorable image I carry from that evening when my dad took me and my younger sister to that fest.
I guess I must've been very busy with the army for those nine years because, in 1999, I didn't even know that Hirt had died. That's a long life from his birth in 1922. But, reading these liner notes somehow changes me. I only just found out he died about a week ago, and hence I picked out a great disc of Hirt jazz in the same memoriam to Hirt that Fountain provides by this release: this is the disc I chose. Knowing of his death makes me feel loss, remorse, and regret; and, I even feel I'm on the verge of tears. But, I know that if I feel the notion of sorrow, that it fits in with Hirt's music somehow. In addition to that, I also have that live performance on the Super Jazz CD, with Fountain and Hirt. In that disc, Hirt talks about something called a "jazz funeral."
A jazz funeral is a New Orleans-style funeral where, instead of ordinary funeral music, dixie and rag music would be played live after the funeral procession, much like having a party. He says the jazz music would start slow to show sympathy to the dead person, but that the music would then crank up into fast dixie-style jazz like a happy party--like in that movie "One Night Stand" with Wesley Snipes. I don't know if Hirt had a "jazz funeral" when he died, but I imagine so; and, I imagine the pain felt by those, like Fountain, for Hirt's death. And, I share in that pain. A marvel who plays as well as Hirt shouldn't have to die; he should get to ramble around forever.
Al Hirt, if you're listenin' from up there, your music has made the world a better place.
Oh yeah, if you dig this Mardi Gras stuff, check out these CDs: Al Hirt at the Mardi Gras (fun stuff!), and Honey in the Horn/Our Man in New Orleans (the 2-album CD). These albums help prove why New Orleans is on the Music Map of the world. The only thing that came even close to the experience I've had with Al Hirt's CDs was when I visited Munich's Hofbraeuhaus while I was stationed in Germany, a restaurant with a live band that really cooks, although it's beer-drinking music of a different kind.
Essential Dixieland.......2004-09-24
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Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland
Various Artists Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000056PR0 Release Date: 2001-01-23 |
Tracks:
- Basin Street Blues - Kenny Davern
- My Inspiration - IRVING FAZOLA
- Dogtown Blues - Matty Matlock
- Perdido Street Blues - Sidney Bechet
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord - George Lewis
- Wild Man Blues - Johnny Dodd's Black Bottom Stompers
- Love Is Just Around The Corner - Pee Wee Russell
- Memories Of You - Eddie Miller
- Dame Blanche - Bob Wilber
- Sweet Lorraine - Jimmy Noone's Apex Club Orchestra
- Show Piece - Edmond Hall And His Quartet
- Beau Koo Jack - Omer Simeon
- Meet Me In Chicago - Jack Maheu
- Rose Room - Albert Nicholas
- Body And Soul - Barney Bigard
Customer Reviews:
A One-of-a Kind Gem!.......2001-03-13
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Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland
Louis Armstrong Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000056PQK Release Date: 2001-01-23 |
Tracks:
- Back O' Town Blues
- Basin Street Blues
- Canal Street Blues
- New Orleans Function: Flee As A Bird/Oh, Didn't He Ramble
- Dear Old Southland
- High Society
- Mahogany Hall Stomp
- Muskrat Ramble
- Panama
- That's A-Plenty
- Tin Roof Blues
- Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
- Weary Blues
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South
- When The Saints Go Marching In
Customer Reviews:
A big ol' grab batch of Satch..........2003-09-08
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The Best of Pete Fountain, Vols. 1 & 2
Pete Fountain Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000DW9B Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- While We Danced At The Mardi Gras
- A Closer Walk With Thee
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
- Fascination Medley
Customer Reviews:
One of a kind.......2005-09-19
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Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland
Manufacturer: Musical Heritage Society ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000I0YU0I |
Product Description
1. Kenny Davern / Dixie Rebels - "Basin Street Blues" 2. Irivng Fazola / Bob Crosby - "My Inspiration" 3. Matty Matlock / Bob Crosby - "Dogtown Blues" 4. Sidney Bechet / Louis Armstrong - "Perdido Street Blues" 5. George Lewis - "Take My Hand Precious Lord" 6. Johnny Dodd's Black Bottom Stompers - "Wild Man Blues" 7. Pee Wee Russell / Eddie Condon / Windy City Seven - "Love Is Just Around the Corner" 8. Eddie Miller / Pete Fountain - "Memories of You" 9. Bob Wilber / Jack Teagarden - "Dame Blanche" 10. Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra - "Sweet Lorraine" 11. Edmond Hall / Teddy Wilson - "Show Piece" 12. Omer Simeon - "Beau Koo Jack" 13. Jack Maheu / Art Hodes / Jimmy McPartland - "Meet Me in Chicago" 14. Albert Nicholas - "Rose Room" 15. Barney Bigard / Louis Armstrong - "Body and Soul"
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Very Best of : Pete Fountain
Manufacturer: Excelsior ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009PO3IG |
Product Description
He is the essence of New Orleans playing the clarinet. Includes 12 tracks. Songs like Margie,Going Home,Jazz Me Blues,Up The Lazy River and When The Saints Go Marching HomePop Music:
- The Bill Holman Band Live [Live]
- The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
- The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2
- The Dance
- The Greatest Hits of All [Original recording remastered]
- The Greatest Holiday Classics
- The Journey Within [Enhanced]
- The Out-of-Towners [Live]
- The Progressive Years: 1941-1947
- The Sermon! [Original recording remastered]
