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unusual facts about Pete Fountain



At the Jazz Band Ball

Pete Fountain, Bob Crosby, George Barnes and his Octet, Phil Napoleon's Emperor's of Jazz, Nappy Lamare, Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, Gene Krupa and his Chicago Jazz, Eddie Condon, Art Hodes, Sidney Bechet, Joe Venutti, the Sons of Bix, Nick LaRocca and His Dixieland Jazz Band, Kid Ory, the

George Girard

He played and toured with the bands of Johnny Archer and Phil Zito before cofounding the band The Basin Street Six, made up mostly of friends he had grown up with, including clarinetist Pete Fountain.

Greenville Symphony Orchestra

Tchivzhel has performed with many great artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Vladimir Spivakov, Gidon Kremer, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, André Watts, János Starker, Gil Shaham, Olga Kern, Nicolai Demidenko, Joshua Bell, Bella Davidovich, Yuri Bashmet, Evelyn Glennie, Pete Fountain, Sharon Isbin, and Doc Severinsen.

Harry Watters

He has performed across the United States with many jazz artists including Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Shirley Jones, and many others.


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