Al Hirt’s trumpet and Pete Fountain’s clarinet created the soundtrack of 1960s Bourbon Street. Both Hirt and Fountain were New Orleans’ natives who were huge national successes on radio and television ...
Blowing one of the most potent horns since the Biblical Joshua led a septet outside Jericho, the late Al Hirt (1922-1999) has left us with a trumpet legacy characterized by a singular blend of power ...
Despite his international fame as a symbol of New Orleans music and bonhomie–or perhaps because of it–Al Hirt rarely received serious recognition as a trumpeter. But the classically trained virtuoso, ...
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