Allen Toussaint’s acclaimed live album Songbook will return in an expanded edition featuring 20 previously unreleased recordings and the album’s first ever vinyl release.

Allen Toussaint’s Songbook endures as a core work in his illustrious and prolific career. After more than five decades as a performer, producer and ...

Allen Toussaint, a beloved New Orleans music icon, died Monday in Europe, according to reports. The singer-songwriter was 77. Toussaint was on tour in Spain and died after a performance Monday at ...

Emerging from a hardscrabble section of Boston in the early 1980s, New Edition was essentially a new edition of the Jackson 5 ...

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 ...

NORTH ADAMS -- What better companionship could the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, guardian of the music legacy of its beloved Crescent City, find than Allen Toussaint, one of the most iconic and ...

A fitting tribute to Allen Toussaint, beloved musician, composer, producer, and gentle friend, was held at the renovated Orpheum Theater this morning before he was laid to rest. Visitation for ...

In late May, Robert Glasper released his Miles Davis tribute album Everything’s Beautiful, and several weeks later Nonesuch Records issued the late Allen Toussaint’s American Tunes. Glasper and ...

The three-day festival is set for October at the Riverfront Park, featuring a tribute to Allen Toussaint and dozens of regional acts.

It’s another defeat for Robert E. Lee. New Orleans City Council voted unanimously Thursday to rename the city’s Robert E. Lee Boulevard for celebrated musician and native son Allen Toussaint. The name ...