R.I.P. Allen Toussaint

Allen Toussaint has died. He was 77. His influence on the music we love and know and feel is incalculable – there’s every chance he put the wiggle in your stride. Maybe you didn’t even know it was him. But he did it. He was all at once the spirit of New Orleans and the heart and soul of jazz and rock’n’roll too. He helmed the melting pot. As a songwrite…