When Pete Fountain steps on stage, he should feel like he's home. He's performing in the same room where he entertained casino guests before Katrina. His real home is a mile from the Hollywood Casino.

The Historic District Landmark Commission unanimously voted this week to approve the modest home at 820 N. White St. in Mid-City for study as historic landmark. The vacant shotgun house was the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Clarinetist Pete Fountain, whose recording of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" became the unofficial anthem for traditional New Orleans jazz, has died. He was 86. Fountain's ...

When writing in a recent review about the scarcity of top–notch Jazz clarinetists on the scene today, I managed to overlook one — a pardonable error, as Pete Fountain has been sequestered for so long ...

NEW ORLEANS — A part of New Orleans rich musical history had its roots in a modest home at 820 North White Street in the Bayou St. John neighborhood. The legendary Pete Fountain grew up there, next ...

Pete Fountain, who died Aug. 6 at 86, wasn't just a New Orleans musician. He was one of the city's greatest cultural ambassadors of the 20th century, in a league with Louis Armstrong and Paul ...