The United States Postal Service is honoring the brilliant songwriter/producer/pianist Allen Toussaint with the 48th stamp in its Black Heritage series. Over the course of his career, Toussaint earned ...

A fitting tribute to Allen Toussaint, beloved musician, composer, producer, and gentle friend, was held at the renovated Orpheum Theater this morning before he was laid to rest. Visitation for ...

Very sad news: New Orleans music legend Allen Toussaint died on Monday night (11/9) after a concert in Madrid, Spain. He was 77. Though always soft-spoken, humble and most often preferring to stay ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The daughter of New Orleans music legend Allen Toussaint has written a book about her father’s incredible ...

The songs of Allen Toussaint washed over their creator one final time on Friday. As Toussaint, the beloved New Orleans songwriter, producer and pianist, lay inside an opulent casket at the foot of the ...

While most of his best-known songs were made famous by other performers, producer, arranger, hitmaker and general New Orleans living legend Allen Toussaint in no small way helped shape not only the ...

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 ...

The memorial tribute to Allen Toussaint held Friday morning at the Orpheum Theater rose admirably to the challenge of honoring a nearly six-decade musical career of almost dizzying breadth and ...

The mighty river of American songs flows in many different directions: blues, gospel, jazz and funk are part of the muddy water that makes up the music. Pianist, composer, arranger and record producer ...

The New Orleans-based musician completed recording his final album a month before he died last November. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead calls American Tunes a "fond last look" at Toussaint's talent. This ...

Liverpool had the Beatles, Memphis had Elvis, but no musician every personified a city the way that Allen Toussaint was New Orleans. From the 1950s until his death on November 10 while on tour in ...

*American Tunes *is a posthumous album from Allen Toussaint, who, though he had a six decade-long musical career, began his work as a regular touring live performer began in 2005 after Hurricane ...