R.I.P., Allen Toussaint
Even a fraction of my Toussaint favorites would risk crashing a server, so (in addition to "Last Train," cited above), here are just two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxp0Kfgpft8&sns=em
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV-bFdf6yu8&sns=em
I really enjoyed the Elvis Costello doc with him a few years back ...
I'm sure there are a lot of mixed feelings in New Orleans. While everyone there respects his musical talent, almost as many feel he cheated musicians out of payments.
Interesting. I hadn't known there was that knock against him. Not hard to imagine, though, considering his studio control and all his writing and arrangement credits.
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Anything he touched was musical manna. (And the author of one of my favorite polysyllabic rhymes: "waters with the power lines/quarter hour's time.")
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/arts/music/allen-toussaint-dies.html