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 ...

For the five decades since, Toussaint has been a prime architect of the New Orleans sound and a stellar songwriter, starting with early instrumental hits like Al Hirt's "Java" and Herb Alpert's ...

Allen Toussaint (1938-2015), a composer / producer who made his mark in the broad spheres of R&B, rock and roll, funk, country and pop music, may seem at first glance an unusual choice for a big-band ...

Allen Toussaint puts a fresh spin on jazz standards on his new album. Allen Toussaint's post-Katrina renaissance rolls on. Ever since his 1958 debut "The Wild Sound of New Orleans" -- released under ...

Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi is dignified, elegant, intimate, playful, quintessentially New Orleans. At 71, one of the fathers of contemporary R&B, soul and funk plays the piano sublimely, ...

Earlier this month, Drowned In Sound had the rare privilege of spending an evening in the company of Allen Toussaint, arguably one of the greatest songwriters of his generation. Playing two nights at ...

Allen Toussaint - the architect of New Orleans funk and R&B, having written, arranged and produced countless New Orleans hits, and whose fingerprints are unmistakable throughout rock 'n' roll history ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. To conclude our archive series R&B, Rockabilly and Early Rock 'n' Roll, we have the interview I recorded with Allen Toussaint, who was in our studio at the piano ...