Jazz clarinetist Tim Laughlin announced that two of his original songs will be featured in the upcoming release of the movie Mr. Church. The movie, which premiers on Friday September 16, will star ...

Around dusk on April 2, as he plans to do every evening as long the coronavirus shutdown continues, New Orleans jazz clarinetist Tim Laughlin stepped out onto his Royal Street balcony and played his ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

Alvin Batiste, the veteran modern jazz clarinetist, composer and educator, died early Sunday of an apparent heart attack, hours before he was scheduled to perform with Harry Connick Jr. and Branford ...

Pete Fountain, New Orleans jazz clarinetist who appeared on “The Lawrence Welk Show” and “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” has died. He was 86. Fountain died of heart failure on Saturday in ...

We're joined by a New Orleans institution — clarinetist and vocalist Doreen Ketchens. She's got several nicknames — "Lady Louie," "Queen Clarinet," and "Miss Satchmo," all of after her biggest idol, ...

Pete Fountain, the goateed clarinetist who became a global ambassador of New Orleans jazz with his flawlessly slippery technique and joyful sound, died Saturday of heart failure while in hospice care ...

NEW ORLEANS-Clarinetist Pete Fountain, whose Dixieland jazz virtuosity and irrepressible wit endeared him to his native New Orleans and earned him decades of national television fame, died Saturday of ...

The chorus of thousands of birds from northern Finland will greet the audience at the Orpheum Theater Friday night and, in a symbolic way, serve as an introduction to the second piece on the Louisiana ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS — Clarinetist Pete Fountain, ...