Great!

Al Hirt was a Treasure! May his magnificent 🙏 Spirit rest peacefully knowing what a colossal gift 🎁 he was to the world 🌎 Most respectfully..Vaughn 🎺

FANTASTIC ! Christmas Eve present to me from KZbin. Huge fan of both former "heavyweight" virtuoso Dixie performers, Al & Pete, but never saw/heard this performance before tonight! They just "wore out" their horns with all that Dixie work...excellent accompanying band, as well ! Damn, I must have been working or going to HS and/or playing in the HS Jazz Band or playing golf on the HS team to have missed this in 1979. Great to get it now !

HOW BEAUTIFUL 🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶❤️

One of my most played LPs since I bought the album upon its release.

Perfection.

The amount of greatness on that stage is staggering. There will never be anouth Al Hirt and Pete Fountain

8 Anos Sem Pete Fountain

Love Al Hirt. One notch behind Satchmo

They love ol Peter

He plays the clarinet about as well as it can be played!

I’m 72 years old. My Dad introduced me to Pete when I was 10. Thanks Dad.

He sure was swinging player, but boy was he overweight!! No wonder he had triple bypass surgery. He's lucky he didn't have a heart attack during this performance!!

My hero when I was 16, in 1956! I was the only kid in our high school band who had a crystal mouthpiece. Guess why? Lol

Those were the days.

Did an awesome theme song of the Green Hornet TV series

In 1982 I heard Pete in New Orleans ,underfull!

Pete comes out smoking...and then heats up. Stride piano playing is exceptional. This is a wonderful group, and Pete is at the height of his powers. These pieces on the entire recording are wonderful. Pete was one of a kind, no one approximated his playing for the style. I met him in New Orleans back in the 1990s. What a great guy, fun loving and funny. He was very gracious to us. I was representing G. Leblanc Corporation where I actually did the clarinet acoustical designs. (Pete played Leblanc clarinets.) He invited me back stage after the performance, and showed me Irving Fazola's clarinet. He told me the clarinet played well, but Faz always ate a supper of pasta with loads of garlic before performances. So, Pete told me that even now, when the clarinet gets warmed up it reeks of garlic and he's got to put it down. True story. Head it myself from the horse's mouth. We miss you Pete. God bless and be with you. REQUIEM aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.

For all who think music consists of guitars, drums, this exemplifies why you should expand your horizons.piano and vocals

That is beautiful music I like classic music also. And I'm a veteran southern farm boy.

Joyful noise! He swings effortlessly. Well, he makes it seem effortless. I'm a musician and I know better.

the immortal 70's was a time of long hair great jazz and great jazz players!!!

Me gustaría escuchar las baladas 10:31

He is good. Benny Goodman king of swing. Pete Fountain king of dixieland.

Marvellous!

The hear and soul of NO, even before this performance. Grew up in Baton Rouge, loving this. Thank you.

That was recorded the year I graduated high school. My father was the chief of security to the Lawrence Welk orchestra at the Aragon Ballroom after the Korean War. He was listening to a group one night in a club. He told Pete Fountain, then unknown that the Lawrence Welk Orchestra was looking for a clarinet player. Later, he arranged for Pete Fountain to audition. Pete Fountain played Oh Henry and immediately got the job. All members of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra were required to have at least two unique talents. They had to sing and dance, or play an instrument and sing, etc. One evening, before a show, someone said to Pete Fountain, "The boss wants you to sing a number tonight." Pete Fountain said, "I don't sing." "What do you mean you don't sing? You sang at your audition." "No, I didn't. " Pete said. "I guess you're playing tonight." My dad lied and told someone in charge that Pete Fountain could sing and play the clarinet. Fountain played a "featured spot" until 1958. My Dad gambled that Pete would play so well they would hire him despite only having one talent. He was right. In 1991, my wife and I were in New Orleans, and I made a phone call to the Riverside Hilton Hotel, where Pete Fountain was playing at the legendary Pete Fountain Jazz Club. I got through to someone and explained who my father was and asked if there was any way to see his show, as I was only in town for a couple of days. We attended the show, and Pete Fountain had someone put a light on me, came to our seats, and he told that story the same way my father had told it all those years. Big band era swing music and Dixieland jazz was one of the few things my father and I had in common. I can't listen to Pete Fountain play without thinking of my father. Thank you for posting this video.

This is the soul of NO, from one who admired as she grew up in Baton Rouge. I took up clarinet in 5th grade owing to Pete. Love this, thank you!

I saw Pete Fountain in 1984 at the Hilton, great experience!

I well remember when my mom had a 1972 Ford “Maverick” with a huge bunch of her favourite music of Al Hirt! So much fun!

i hope people are still listening to this today! Great music!

LEGENDS

Extraordinario

Honey in that horn!

Thanks for this post Jim!

What a treat to hear this never will they be again.

I love the way they complement each other and not compete against each other. That’s true New Orleans Jazz.

Beautiful❤❤

They just don’t make them like Pete anymore. I never heard a more nuanced clarinet player of Gods favorite music: Dixie Land Jazz!!!

昔(50年位前)アルハートのジャワの夜は更けて…を聞いて感激しました。ハリー・ジェイムスばりのテクニック日本ではその後聞く機会が有りませんでした。 改めて素晴らしいトランペッターの一人です。嬉しい動画を拝見しました。❤🎉

Here's another version, with Pete also singing; my favorite: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWncoKppgL1jeassi=RVc3b_Q2hZoMe4hG

Just doesn't get any better than this.

I was going through my dad’s record collection and saw these two. Wow - just wow. This music is so beautiful and pure - brings tears to my eyes.

My hero May God Bless you You and your music will always live forever.

Saw these two stars often in NOLA. They really liked each other and ruled Mardi Gras

I wanted to be Pete when I grew up. I played for 18 years until the Navy took me to Vietnam. I realized that I had skill from playing so long but had no God given talent and I put up my clarinet. Still have it and pull it out once in a while but have never blown another note.

Ijoyalhirt❤😅

I don't know if Hirt was a "jazz" trumpter. But unlike a lot of more pop trumpeters he could sustain notes and shape them better than few others could do.

Stirs and soothes my New Orleans soul!

Naaaah.