From the instrumentals “Java” and “Whipped Cream” to the country standard “Southern Nights” and the funky “Working In the Coal Mine,” Allen Toussaint has written music that has spanned musical genres ...
The New Orleans songwriter and pianist Allen Toussaint, who died Monday after a performance in Spain, was a key figure in the history of New Orleans music and, by extension, American culture. Though ...
WWOZ disk jockey David Kunian, who teaches jazz history at Tulane University, pointed out that one of the features that made Allen Toussaint's songs so endearing and enduring was wit. Though Toussaint ...
The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra is recording an Allen Toussaint tribute album at its home, the New Orleans Jazz Market seen here in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, May 15, 2018. This is the first album the ...
Allen Toussaint, the New Orleans songwriter and producer who shaped the city’s sound for nearly 60 years, has died while on tour in Spain, local news station WWL reports. He was 77. Toussaint got his ...
Allen Toussaint, one of America’s greatest songwriters, arrangers, producers and all-around musical visionaries, has died at the age of 77. He passed away early Tuesday in Madrid, where he suffered a ...
Like tens of thousands of others driven from their New Orleans homes a decade ago, musician Allen Toussaint had to abandon his beloved hometown in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Rather than expressing ...