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 ...

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 ...