The old man in a checked shirt shuffles past the St. Louis Cathedral and ducks into Pirate Alley unnoticed. He opens a black case and carefully assembles a LeBlanc clarinet with gold-plated hardware.

Most people who grew up in the rock era viewed clarinetist Pete Fountain the same way they did Al Hirt—a bearded New Orleans traditional jazz player who turned up on lots of variety shows in the late ...

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A Carnival mask rests at the feet of Pete Fountain's statue in Musical Legends Park on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Saturday, August 6, 2016. The iconic New Orleans jazz clarinetist died at the ...