Allen Toussaint, who passed away in 2015 at the age of 77, did just about everything exceptionally well: performer, player, producer, arranger. You can get so carried away with his multi-talented ...

When Joe Henry read the many tributes and prose about Allen Toussaint following the New Orleans musician's death in November, he noticed the writers calling the 2006 project he produced with Toussaint ...

Before a quick wave and a smile to the audience at Teatro Lara in Madrid on Nov. 9, Allen Toussaint danced his hands across his piano for one last song, the irresistible, uptempo "Brickyard Blues." ...

In late May, Robert Glasper released his Miles Davis tribute album Everything’s Beautiful, and several weeks later Nonesuch Records issued the late Allen Toussaint’s American Tunes. Glasper and ...

Tipitina’s tribute to Allen Toussaint’s songbook on November 23 is named after the Toussaint song “With You In Mind.” The watershed event will be produced by Sonny Schneidau, with musical directrion ...

Allen Toussaint’s Songbook endures as a core work in his illustrious and prolific career. After more than five decades as a performer, producer and composer, the late New Orleans rhythm and blues ...

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If the socks and sandals depicted on the back of the CD booklet don’t give it away, the solo piano opening, “Delores’ Boyfriend,” does: “American Tunes” is an Allen Toussaint album. With its playful ...

The collaboration between pop chameleon Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, the important yet relatively unknown New Orleans songwriter and pianist, is equal to some of the most memorable in music.

Allen Toussaint, the ever-elegant New Orleans performer, producer and composer of such R&B classics as "Working in the Coal Mine," "Mother-in-Law," "It's Raining" and "Southern Nights," died Tuesday ...