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 ...

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, who died Monday in Madrid of an apparent heart attack, was arguably the greatest songwriter/producer to ever come out of New Orleans. He made some fine records under his own name, but ...

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 ...