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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet Batiste could have gone on for hours. The catalog that spilled forth over more than a half-century from Toussaint — the composer, producer, arranger, pianist, and singer who died unexpectedly at ...