Allen Toussaint was a national treasure. On what would become his final album, the music is as timeless as the artist. American Tunes (out June 10 on Nonesuch Records) mixes the jazzy stylings of Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Fats Waller, Earl […]
Allen Toussaint is to American music what Commander’s Palace is to American restaurants. Both have distilled the essence of New Orleans into something refined, elegant, stately. And both have become institutions in the process, the standard by which others are […]
