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Legend Allen Toussaint Brings the Music of New Orleans to the World

by George Varga

"This feels like history," Allen Toussaint said, before recently receiving his Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award at an invitation-only ceremony.

The New Orleans rock, funk and R&B legend was referring to his fellow Lifetime Achievement Award recipients. They included Motown vocal greats The Four Tops, jazz piano icon Hanks Jones, 100-year-old classical music composer Elliot Carter and singer Brenda Lee, along with posthumous honorees Gene Autry, Dean Martin and electric g ...

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