Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi

Sometimes jazz is best left in the hands of players who don’t normally record as jazz artists. It can be too easy to fall into patterns: melody-solos-...

If whiskery veterans of English rock and pop make an album acknowledging early influences, they draw from a pretty shallow well — they might toy with ...

Allen Toussaint's rare amalgam of prodigious piano playing, deftsongwriting, arranging and production acumen has kept him at theforefront of modern mu...

The veteran pianist/ arranger addresses a roll call of jazz standards (Monk, Ellington, Bechet, Morton etc) from the perspective of the New Orleans id...

If it’s not as distinctive as his Crescent City collaboration with ElvisCostello, the pianist Toussaint’s instrumental-driven celebration of hisnative...

Allen Toussaint is the jewel in New Orleans's crown, not merely the most distinctive of soul songwriter/producers, but a virtuoso piano stylist with a...

The Bright Mississippi is Allen Toussaint?s first proper album since 1996?s Connected, but his absence from the spotlight speaks to just how busy the ...

Born in 1938, pianist/songwriter Allen Toussaint grew up around musicians and cut his teeth penning hits for R&B artists throughout the 60s and 70s, t...

Allen Toussaint, 71, is a composer-producer-pianist-singer famed for fluid in-the-pocket R&B; his Sixties and Seventies work is rootsy yet styled w...

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