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His father, Clarence, worked on the railway and played trumpet. [1] [2] Allen Toussaint learned piano as a child and took informal music lessons from an elderly neighbor, Ernest Pinn. [3] In his teens he played in a band, the Flamingos, with the guitarist Snooks Eaglin, [4] before dropping out of school.
Nov 10, 2015 · Born in 1938 in New Orleans, young Allen was immediately entranced by the upright piano his parents rolled into the house one day.
Allen Toussaint Biography. Born January 14, 1938, in New Orleans, LA; children: three, including Clarence and Alison. Addresses: Booking agent-- New Orleans Entertainment Agency, 3530 Rue Delphine, New Orleans, LA 70131. Allen Toussaint likes to talk about the old days, when, as he related to Don Palmer in a 1986 Down Beat article, he and his ...
Nov 10, 2015 · Allen Toussaint, the versatile producer, songwriter, pianist and singer who was a fixture of New Orleans R&B, died after appearing in concert in Madrid on Monday night. He was 77. Alison...
- Ben Sisario
Many of the songs were written at informal rehearsals with the singers in the front room of Toussaint’s parents’ home and then recorded at J&M Studio with many of the session musicians who had played on Fats Domino’s hits in the 1950s.
- Charlie Gillett
Nov 11, 2015 · The front room of Toussaint’s parents’ house in New Orleans’s Gert Town neighborhood was a clubhouse for that fertile generation of musicians; they’d write, rehearse, and clown around ...
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He was six when his parents, Clarence and Naomi, encouraged him to try the instrument. As a teenager he played in a band with Snooks Eaglin, a distinctive blues guitarist and singer.
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