Pete Fountain Being Sought By Sister (He is missing .)

[doxieone]

Pete Fountain being sought by sister

Pete Fountain, the world-renown Dixieland clarinetist and New Orleans
institution, may be among Katrina’s victims, his sister fears.

Dolores Materne of Metairie, who fled her Metairie home for Lafayette,
says she hasn’t heard from her 75-year-old brother and his wife
Beverly, who have homes in hurricane-flattened Bay St. Louis and on Swan
Street near Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, since Katrina turned towards
the central gulf coast.

She has not been able to reach his three adult children, who live in
Metairie and New Orleans.

Materne last spoke with Fountain on Thursday Aug. 25, and he said he planned
to head to the city on Sunday. She said he sometimes rides out storms
at his house on Julia Street and North Beach Boulevard in Bay St. Louis, or
at Casino Magic, where he relocated his regular New Orleans gig a few
years back. He’s also been known to leave the area when a storm is
approaching.

“At times over the years he’s gone out of town,” she said. “More or
less lately, he seems to be staying closer to home.”

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/

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[AlCzervik]

8. feel better now?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Awww.. I hope he turns up

[funkybutt]

3. OH NO!!

New Orleans loves Pete Fountain. Let's hope that he's safely evacuated but without communications. Our cell phone just started working again yesterday.

We're just now hearing from friends telling us they are safe.

Our thoughts are with you Pete and family.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Bummer....he's one of New Orleans important connections to

the musical history. Very, very sad.

[aquart]

7. Even I have heard of Pete Fountain.

Another one of our treasures.

I hope he's safe.

[gauguin57]

5. On my last trip to New Orleans, 20 years ago, I saw Fountain perform.

He was wonderful. Mister New Orleans. This is a tragedy, along with the whole damn situation.

[progmom]

6. oh man...

this is sad news indeed.

i hope they can locate him.

[cal04]

9. Fountain accounted for

Famed New Orleans jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain survived Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, said a co-worker of Fountain's manager. Fountain's sister said early Saturday afternoon that she had been unable to reach her brother, who owns houses in Bay St. Louis, Miss. and near the New Orleans lakefront -- both areas that were heavily damaged by the hurricane. Fountain apparently escaped the storm's path ahead of landfall, but had not yet established contact with his sister.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html#076616

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Great news!

:)

[grasswire]

11. but they found Fats Domino!

He was caught up in the mess, too. Not a jazzman, but still an important figure in the history of American popular song.