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 ...

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 ...