Word: toussaint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dorsey: Night People (ABC). New Orleans R & B for the '70s, created by peerless Allen Toussaint, sung by a great master of soul...
...well as factual witness; and there he could be very puzzling indeed. The debate on Courbet has been stepped up by a magnificent retrospective that opened this fall at the Grand Palais in Paris and will move to London in January. With a catalogue by Art Historian Helene Toussaint, it brings together more than 140 paintings and drawings, centered around the huge machines that normally hang in the Louvre: A Burial at Ornans and (all 11½ ft. by 19 ft. of it) The Painter's Studio...
...world of art. On the left, the other world of trivial existence, the people, misery, poverty and wealth, the exploited and the exploiters, the people who feed off death." Some of the figures, particularly those on the right, have long been identified - Baudelaire, Proudhon, the critic Champfleury. Professor Toussaint, however, gives a complicated new reading to the painting by suggesting that (for instance) the huntsman on the left is Napoleon III and that the central group is a Masonic allegory, with Courbet as master of the lodge. Whatever this puzzling giant of a painting may have been intended to mean...
...this moment a riot broke out in the prison. "A coincidence maybe, but this is what happens to a storyteller; if you give your life to storytelling, stories start happening around you." As an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a Boylston Prize for his rendering of a speech by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitian leader of a slave rebellion, and later won the Walt Whitman International Media Competition for selections from The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He often compares himself to a jazz musician, stripping down everything to the soul. "I used to blow a blues harp and beat...
...Tenderness" may be Simon's answer to Otis's "Try a Little Tenderness." Simon can't match Otis's power, so his approach is plaintive. The guitar obbligatos are from the era of the big band vocal. Allen Toussaint's horn arrangement echoes that era as well, particularly in a soft, mixed down solo saxophone. Paul Griffin's piano tickles with the right hand, fills chords and notes with the left. And the Dixie Hummingbirds are something else. Their oooh's are acapella oriented, rough and husky. The song finishes strongly, showcases them simultaneously, and the highpoint is a single...