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Allen Toussaint sings just once on his final album, American Tunes, but it’s a moment worth savoring. The song is Paul Simon’s American Tune, a secular hymn of perseverance, and he starts out solemn, backed only by an acoustic guitar. He waits a full two minutes before tolling a chord at the piano, as punctuation for the first line of the bridge: And I dreamed I was dying. He plays it on the offbeat, naturally

American Tunes features solo piano recordings made at Touissant’s home studio as well as others made with guests like Jay Bellerose, Bill Frisell, Rhiannon Giddens, and Van Dyke Parks. He’s in fine form, too, lending his singular style to songs by Professor Longhair, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Paul Simon, and beautiful originals like Southern Nights. American Tunes Allen Toussaint. The patriarch of New Orleans R&B recorded one last session before he passed away in November 2015. American Tunes features solo piano recordings made at Touissant’s home studio as well as others made with guests like Jay Bellerose, Bill Frisell, Rhiannon Giddens, and Van Dyke Parks.

American Tunes is a posthumous album from Allen Toussaint, who, though he had a six decade-long musical career, began his work as a regular touring live performer began in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina claimed most of his possessions and his recording studio in its destructive wake. Toussaint’s responsible for infusing the syncopated pianos of ragtime jazz and boom-bap style swing into New Orleans funk and rock, but his just-released collection does not necessarily reflect that level of innovation.

Allen Toussaint ‎– American Tunes. Label: Nonesuch ‎– 554656-1. Format: 2 Vinyl, LP, Album. Classical Guitar – Adam LevyVocals – Allen ToussaintWritten-By – Paul Simon.

Allen Toussaint: Inside American Tunes. 247. 16. See all. Posts. 10 June 2016 ·. Here is Allen Toussaint's performance of Paul Simon's "American Tune" on Austin City Limits in 2009. Toussaint later recorded the song for his posthumously released album American Tunes. It was the last track cut in the final session for the disc. Allen Toussaint - American Tune (Live on Austin City Limits). Allen Toussaint performs Paul Simon's "American Tune" on Austin City Limits in 2009.

Allen Toussaint, "American Tunes" (Nonesuch) Allen Toussaint finished recording "American Tunes" just weeks before his death in November, an elegant and fitting adieu from the New Orleans master. Solo piano versions of tune. igstory. He sings the same way he plays piano: gracefully, using understatement to devastating effect. That kind of poise is easy to overlook, but it's crucial to just about everything on this delightful survey of American tunes. And it's one of the qualities that made Allen Toussaint an American treasure. NPR All Things Considered on American Tunes.

American Tunes, released posthumously following his death last November, isn't designed to capture or simulate a live concert experience. This is a program of largely all-time-classic songs from jazz and pop history, emphasizing his hometown and personal hero Professor Longhair.

This is the discography for American R&B-jazz musician Allen Toussaint. The Wild Sound of New Orleans (1958). Toussaint (1971, aka From A Whisper To A Scream). Life, Love and Faith (1972). Southern Nights (1975). I Love A Carnival Ball, Mr Mardi Gras Starring Allen Toussaint (1987). A New Orleans Christmas (1997). Allen Toussaint's Jazzity Project: Going Places (2004). The Bright Mississippi (2009). American Tunes (2016).