American music lost a bigger-than-life legend, not to mention a gentleman, last year. Allen Toussaint’s contribution to the many forms of music that we know can be easily seen across the landscape. Country, R&B, jazz, soul, blues, rock n’ roll, and popular patchworks of brilliant compositions. He should be considered as one of the great popular music composers of our time, his music being covered by everyone from Warren Zevon to Glen Campbell; Al Hirt to Herb Alpert; Patti Labelle to The Nevilles. He was one of the New Orleans masters. We’ll share his music with you and include some of his own reflections in our show.
