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Pete Fountain (born Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr.; July 3, 1930 – August 6, 2016) was an American jazz clarinetist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He played in various traditional and contemporary genres of jazz, such as Dixieland, pop jazz, honky-tonk jazz, as well as pop, and Creole music.
Pierre Dewey Fountain, Jr., was born on White Street, in New Orleans, between Dumaine and St. Ann, in a small Creole cottage-style frame house. Pete was the great grandson of Francois Fontaine who was born in Toulon, France circa 1796, and died on the Mississippi Gulf Coast circa 1885.
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