How the Band Said Goodbye With ‘Jubilation’
Released 25 years ago today, the Band’s ‘Jubilation’ somehow held together as well as any they’d produced since ‘Northern Lights-Southern Cross.’
Released 25 years ago today, the Band’s ‘Jubilation’ somehow held together as well as any they’d produced since ‘Northern Lights-Southern Cross.’
Steven Bernstein’s MTO and Catherine Russell convert Allen Toussaint’s R&B classic “Yes We Can” into a joyful, New Orleans jazz funeral parade.
When I think of the genius of the late, great Allen Toussaint, I think of the masterpiece he made with Lee Dorsey in 1970.
Allen Toussaint, who has died at 77, was always content to work behind the scenes – until a devastating storm swept him from New Orleans.
Allen Toussaint explores a Paul McCartney connection from long before their time together around the newly reissued ‘Venus and Mars.’
The Band’s fun run through Allen Toussaint’s soul-lifting “You See Me” underscored an often-forgotten portion of their inestimable legacy.
A celebration of everything Helm meant to music, and vice versa.
Dr. John’s flamboyant life and hoodoo-tinged music will be celebrated during a special concert event to be held on Saturday, May 3, 2014, in New Orleans as part of the Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Levon Helm’s update of “Kingfish” was as evocative of what made the Band great as anything the individual group members ever put out.
The Band is revealed in all of its muscular, almost (but never completely) out-of-control on-stage glory — bolstered, in a meeting of musical worlds, by these stabbing horn charts from Allen Toussaint. You May Also Like: Why the Beach Boys’ ‘Sail On, Sailor’ Pointed to So Many Unrealized Triumphs BadRead More