Pete Fountain - Closer Walk With Thee/Amazing Grace video free download

Bob Bly

One of the greatest pop/jazz clarinetists of all time. Right up there with Goodman, Shaw, and DeFranco.

gerson fandrade

Bravo!

thestone46

THAT IS WHAT SHOULD SOUND LIKE !!!!

thestone46

students..listen to the tone... 

Terry Douglas

GREAT JOB!

Brian Shanabrough

Mr. Pete, one of da' parish's BEST...WE LOVE YA, PETE !

Alex G

I am not religious but I am very touched by these songs and I like them a lot!

zebrasarecool

I was on a band trip with the Missouri Lions Club Marching Band, in New Orleans in 1977. I walked into a bar and Mr Fountain was playing. Very small venue, he was about 20 feet away. Naked women at the bar. Goose bumps then and Goose bumps now....and it wasn't the women. There were women everywhere and I became numb to that oddity but nothing can stop his music from touching your soul.

Bob Bly

Actually, plenty of people dislike jazz, but happily, I am not in their ranks. Peter Fountain is surely one of the top 5 jazz clarinetists of all time.

MeriScrapper13

Our New Orleans treasure! He's a real sweetheart in person too. Lovely memories of meeting him.

TheophilosPorter

And guess what, if you stick with it and get really good, you can get a paid scholarship for school and get a job where you earn twice as much as them. Regardless, if you enjoy it at all, keep doing it, because it will develop into a deep passion. From a fellow clarinetist.

Shevill Mathers

Their lives are poorer for it!

dimmddr1

Who are the four crazy people that don't like jazz?

Baritone45

And don't forget Artie Shaw was quite successful as a clarinetist and band leader at the same time as Benny Goodman. More recent male woodwind players include Chris Vadala (Chuck Mangione's clarient/sax man), the flute player in Jethro Tull, Greg Ham (sax & flute) of Men at Work, Clarence Clemons (Springsteen's sax man), and many others in jazz, rock, pop and classical music.

Baritone45

Ignorant people always lash out at things they can't understand or don't know how to do. It's a defense mechanism for them and gets caught up in a pack mentality. Don't define yourself by what you don't do or what others tell you not to do.

JamesEarl Mackey

I played the trombone from the 4th grad till the end of high school. A lot of good times and good friends Just hang in and have fun. from Earl ck out Kenny G

Howzyer Bippy

send my medal

Sandy Lopes

What a stupid comment!

cannonballblues

Hi Jim! Why does`nt Pete play songs of OK-DREAMBAND? "Your Eyes Are So Blue" or "Clarinet-Dreams" for example. A friend of mine has sheet-music. I`m sure, Pete could perform hit-records.

JimV33 .

@cannonballblues YES, I'm sure! This other clarinet players vibrato and tone is exactly like Acker Bilk. Listen to those songs and then listen to Acker Bilk playing Stranger On The Shore or him playing any slow song.

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