Allen Toussaint06/13/09 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival06/19/09 - Saint Paul, MN - Mears Park06/20/09 - San Francisco, CA - Herbst Theatre06/22/09 - Calgary, AB - TBA06/24/09 - Seattle, WA - Woodland Park Zoo06/28/09 - New York, NY - Joe's Pub07/05/09 - New York, NY - Joe's Pub07/11/09 - Rotterdam, Netherlands - Ahoy' Rotterdam07/12/09 - Antibes, France - Juan Les Pins Festival Groun...
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A storied delta pianist makes an album of classic New Orleans tunes, and it may be the best jazz of 2009.
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**Allen Toussaint's** funk is infused with his New Orleans heritage. This is funk from the swamp, languid, humid, dark but light on it's feet.His horn charts, always tasteful, here add to gumbo feel, related to ska but worlds removed.This is not the frantic funk of the disco, no, this is the funk of the dance-barn, the fish-fry, the Friday night dance at the edge of town.
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Never breaks a sweat. Has so much musical knowledge stored inside him that he instinctively knows the right note or the right touch in any situation. Rarely missteps. I'm going through a period - immature, I know - that if it doesn't have Allen Toussaint's hand in it, I'm just not all that interested.When he sings, "Everything I do gonna be funky from now on," even with that touch of deadpan se...
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If you think the opening track on the new Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint collaboration sounds familiar, it's probably because you heard a version of the song, Allen Toussaint's classic, "On Your Way Down," recorded in the '70s by Little Feat.Allen Toussaint as a young man.And that's testament to the strength of Toussaint's composition, which tells the tale of a social climber now down on her l...
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Steppenwolf Traffic PresentsAn Evening With Allen ToussaintFeaturing Allen ToussaintIn the Downstairs Theatre Mon. December 18, 2006Steppenwolf's Traffic series brings together artists of all disciplines and casts them as storytellers in one night only presentations on the Steppenwolf stage."Check this out":http://www.steppenwolf.org/boxoffice/productions/index.aspx?id=395.
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By the time Allen Toussaint recorded this 1971 LP he was already a New Orleans R&B legend, first as a pianist, then as an arranger and soon thereafter as a songwriter and producer. Under both his own name and his nom de plume "Naomi Neville," Toussaint spun off a string of hits that turned the rhythms of New Orleans into R&B icons, including Ernie K. Doe's "Mother in Law," Benny Spellman's "For...
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| 2 Out of the City (Into Country Life) |
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| 3 Fingers and Toes |
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| 4 On Your Way Down |
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| 5 She Once Belonged to Me |
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