Pete Fountain - Jazz Me Blues
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2006
- Many clarinet players have tried to copy Pete's big fat rich sound and if anyone has they must be in hiding. Seeing him in a live performance is a thrill you will never forget! Enjoy the "Jazz Me Blues".
He's the man for New Orleans Clarinet Jazz!
never get bored to watch him in action....
Keep that awesome jazz happenin's up there in heaven, Pete.
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Yes. I have heard Pete Fountain live 5 times. He is a great performer with shows his love of playing jazz. He is also a very very funny comedian pulling lots of jokes on stage!!!
Cheers...
I saw Pete Fountain in 1984 at the Hilton, great experience!
Hi
Just uploaded Rhapsody In Blue by Pete Fountain. Keep in mind this is a cut down version but it will give you a little idea how good he can do the gliss at the beginning and overall tone. Enjoy!
I loved to watch him on Johnny Carson Johnny just loved Pete. Every time he was on I made sure I did not miss it. Happy day when we could record our shows.
How can some people NOT like this? One of the best musical moments i've had! Cheers!
The weren't screwing around with recording this one. I'd love to have that microphone. My uncle was a clarinet player too. He owned a music store in Salina Kansas, then moved it to Colorado Springs, I also had a great uncle who was a classical clarinet player. The talents of Pete Fountain are the apex of jazz clarinet. I played in an award winning stage band in grade school. It is too bad we did not feature this instruments more, but our director was a trumpet player. (the instrument I played)
Saw Pete Fountain three times. Best Dixieland Clarinetist of all time. Maybe the best jazz clarinetist as well. Pete, Benny Goodman and Buddy DeFranco were the top three.
Wow! thats all i can say at this guy's amazing clarineting. Is that a word?
Man I need to thank my music teacher for making the clarinet group look him up.
"Is that a word?" Pete called it tootin'.
I've been clarinet a long time and I've discovered that Pete and I have something in common: no how much we practice, neither one of us can get any better : )
He was brilliant. The best.
Watching this stuff is like watching a football game in that the best seats in the house are on television, but there is nothing to compare with actually being there and really feeling it.
Love You Pete. A sad rainy night in nola.
Great to hear from Norway! He has the most mellow tone of any clarinet player that made the big time.
Jim
Thank you so much for uploading this gem! It's the only way we have 'live' Pete for posterity! This way future generations will be able to enjoy his wonderful music, too. Perhaps someone, someday, will be able to remove the few artifacts from the sound. I don't have that talent, unfortunately.
Pete Fountain was my main man and through him, Irving Fazola, Peanuts Hucko, Jim Cullum, Sr., Harold Cooper, Pee Wee Spitalera, George Lewis, Johnny Dodds, and OF COURSE Goodman and Shaw and about a jillion others became my "IDEALS!" lol
Soberbo! Putz, que coisa espetacular esse povo toca, né!?
Lovely arrangement. Pete still plays a mean clarinet.
Pete passed away in 2016 at age 86.
this totally cheered up my day! Thanks Pete!
i just love the look on his face the whole time
I LOVE this preformance!
i got a "Selmer Paris Oddyse" i taught i got a realy good sound.. but i got nothing compaired to this!!! AWSOME!
greetings form Norway
i have no comment except: OMG SO GOOD!!
I have approximately 50 Albums Vinyl records for Pete Fountain that are put away in my attic. I wonder if they are worth much.
@JimV33 I need to check that out! THANKS. I do some repairs of wood winds. My late uncle was an accomplished clarinet player who conducted a theater orchestra back in the days of such entertainment, My great uncle did the same thing. These two were inlaws. Klesi repaired all instruments and had contracts with many schools to maintain their instruments from band and or orchestra, Those days are gone, as are the theater orchestras. I love that Neuman mic he is playing through. ($12,000+ used)
Wow! What a sound! Absolutely joyful music.
Geez.. he makes it look so easy. I would kill to see him live.. Not really but you know what I mean.. =P
ever wanna see those guys play live? (trumpet player and middle bone player)?yea, they play in a band "The Wiseguys" they are amazing. check em out if your in the New Orleans area. its crazy. Pete is a beast.
simply ....amazing......
GREAT !
BRAVO from FRANCE !
I met three people who changed my life: Satchamo ,Pete Fountain, & Muddy Waters. Muddy called me ol"scratch.
Pete plays the lead like Sydney Bechet did in his bands.
greetings from Poland :)
I want the music for this song. It drives me nuts listening to its. I love this song.
The current Leblanc Pete Fountain clarinet model (1612) is marketed as the "Big Easy" and also has the articulated G# key, forked Bb and gold plated keys. All the various incarnations of the Leblanc Pete Fountain clarinet have retained the 15mm bore.
Jim V
superb - love it
In 1963 he was a 4* O'Brien. It got broken sometime in the 80s and was replaced with another O'Brien of very similar lay.
Jim
Amazing !!
A REAL New Orleans clarinet player in the tradition of Irving Fazola, Barney Bigard, Leon Roppolo and Albert Nicholas. And a real musician!
The Groove Kings!!!
He looks like he is enjoying himself up there...
Totally agree...
that was a good one
i love this kind of music xD
that was probably the most awesome jazz playing ever! people underestimate clarinet for only playing classical, but it is truly a jazz instrument. (what style of clarinet is he using? cuz the keys look golden, and never heard of that?). Pete, you desegregate the clarinet from classical playing
Really good music :D
The keywork of Albert and Boehm clarinets is placed in different maner and the 2 systems have different hand-playing. Here's how Barney Bigard compares them:
"I sterted by the Albert system and still use it. You get louder sound because of the larger toneholes. The Boehm system is easier of sax players, it was desined for them. But my system and me, we can perform tings that are impossible for Boehm..."
Any instrument is good for jazz - what makes it good is the musician, not the instrument. :)
Maneiro pra caramba !
Excellent ! !
Thank you for sharing and thanks to meehall121 for sending.
Amazing man.. i am also a clarinet and i am just starting Jazz..
yes, my friend, I'm a musician, but a play VIOLA, I don't know much about clarinet, that's why I ask you, in the first place. And you didn't explain me much, and I steel don't unsderstand the relationship between this "systems" and the sound of diferent clarinetist, I?d never haerd before Pete Fountain, i Like Eddi Daniels very much, I began to listen Jazz little ago
clap clap!!
He came this close to convincing me to play clarinet in marching band, but I opted for Al Hirt's trumpet instead (I think my parent's budget had something to do with it too, cornet rental was practically free).
He is!
Well, my contribution is, among others, to open the eyes to good jazz in this kind of forums. I repeat, maybe Pete Fountain is a very good guy, but he's playing as a machine, WITHOUT SOUL or HEART, no questions about it, is obvious. But if you like machines, this is your man, no doubts either. Good listening
PS: There's an interesting software called Band in a Box, you'll love it! If you want, can play tunes faster than Pete Fountain!!
@theman9126
Pete uses a Leblanc. You can get silver or gold keys, and I believe nickel. I believe the body is brown instead of the usual black but I'm sure he has more than one!
i have only found one person on this website that almost has the same tone as pete
The only player I have ever heard that sounded like Pete Fountain was Clarinetists Bob Draga.
It seems easy to do... but believe me that's amazingly hard, especially the high notes.
SSwhat I'm talkin' about!
Yeah getting as I was at the municipal whopper one great summer wouldn't minutes is a great musical experience for me to watch chef pizza and a herd share this stage that night one of the great met one of the great memories was this jazz me blues which was played and it was his hot is the weather was hard that July 9th or July 9th rather I meant to six of it was also a negative Tempe had a great time any money center sex with someone alongside in that makes all the difference have him there and it was it was a memorable musical experience for me that night due to hear picked up late is great song
To whom it may concern the automatic piping got every word that I said wrong I was at the municipal Opera in St Louis One Summer Night the music that night was just as hot as the weather and this was a supreme moment when they played this Jazz me Blues it was it was quite wonderful but I also wanted to say that Pete fountain that night had Eddie Miller the great saxophone player along his side and that makes a big difference he was wonderful and it made for just a great evening of Red Hot music that was just as hot as the weather I hope they got some of these words right this time so I hope everyone enjoys this cut
I'm hoping that Pete and Al Hirt are jammin' somewhere "out there."
@hansmantel
His band, as with other bands, the leader gets to stand in front.
@vadennotbaden Not any more.
Any one knows where i can buy a book with this song pls?
COPY THAT!!!
xD
@MyREDTAIL Idk but he's good
It not a style. It is the system of the clarinet. How its build. As a classic musician you should know :D But hey, who can blame ya.
Awsome tone!
Does anybody knows what mouthpiece is he using? Crystal Vandoren A3 maybe?
It was made especially for Pete. Pete Fountain crystal mouthpieces can be bought but I don't think they are exactly the same lay and mouth piece tip as Pete actually played.
i wanna hear this guy playing classical.....he's already a monster at jazz xD
Jim do you or he have any classical stuff out?
que marca es este clarinete del gran PETE FOUNTAIN la boquilla de crystal podria ser una selmer clarion de crystal pero el clarinete no se que marca sea
alguien que me oriente gracias
Can you explain to me what it means this of Albert and Boehm system, I'm a classic musician and unfortunely I don't know much of Jazz, yet.
Naaaah.
does Mr. Fountain do any kind of touring?
which one?
Ye sorry, but i can't really explain more about. I've only played clarinet for like a month, and i've only played on Boehm system. I've never even seen the albertsystem. But look it up on google. Then you might find some more facts. Basicly its just the system with the holes and stuff. Dunno if they sound different.
im a clarinet player but jus a begginer that must be hard to do
hes a better poet than bob dylan
wait, are they all improvising??
love pete's PHAT sound and playing! (not fat mind you in jazz) Also the trumpet and trombone are great and can really swing! Just from watching him for the first time the piano player irritates me because stylistically he is soo square and white (and don't say I'm racist because in appearance I am the whitest person you would ever meet) My 2 cents
Tell the piano player to not look so “happy”
why is the rest of the horn players standing behind him?
Is he a royalty?
On the Clarinet, YES!
Don't worry cn20790, he's trying to do his best on that inapropiate horn. In the history of jazz there's a lot of boring and dull clarinet players playing on Boehm system like Benny Goodman or Pete Fountain, but they was nice guys.
Are you from mars?
@@wendellharrelson2815 It was a joke. I have a weird sense of humour 😉