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lördag, februari 15, 2014

Allen Toussaint


/Avdelning New Orleans-grabbar/
Allen Toussaint (bilden), född i New Orleans 1938, pianist, låtskrivare och musikproducent och en av de inflytelserikaste personerna i New Orleans rhythm and blues-scen. Lär ha skrivit  omkring 2000 låtar. Allen Toussaint gästade Stockholms Jazzfestival 2009; och det är troligt att detta inte var första gången.
















When Barack Obama presented Allen Toussaint with the prestigious National Medal of Arts in July 2013, the American President said the pianist and songwriter "has devoted his musical talent to lifting up and building up a city".
That city, of course, is New Orleans and it's fitting that one of his songs about his home town has been nominated for a Grammy at this Sunday's 2014 awards. The song, one of his more recent compositions called Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed, is on the live album Songbook, which is also in the running for the Best Americana Album.
The album is beautiful, just Toussaint singing his way through 25 songs from a remarkable back catalogue while accompanying himself on a Steinway & Sons grand piano.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/grammys/10574449/Allen-Toussaint-a-musical-giant-in-running-for-first-Grammy.html
More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/grammys/10574449/Allen-Toussaint-a-musical-giant-in-running-for-first-Grammy.html

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