Allen Toussaint Funeral Procession - 11 20 2015 

Love the way New Orleans celebrates life at funerals.

A send-off worthy of the music royalty he was.

Where ELSE ON EARTH would people celebrate a life with such joyous uplifted rhythms? Gotta be NOLA..it gets up in ya, for sure.

Boz Scaggs, John Cleary, Davell Crawford... Cyril Neville is a pallbearer. It was all so deep, man. I'll never forget it.

Allen Toussaint was one of the greatest ever. He will be missed but certainly celebrated!!

Great musicians paying tribute to a great man. This is important American history. Thank you for posting.

a New Orleans Funeral looks makes other Funerals look depressing

A beautiful thing to observe..

Death never stood a chance.

Just beautiful!

He was such an elegant, classy guy..I can see him smiling from the Hereafter while all this wonderful jumping and grooving is going on. RIP!

We Don't Celebrate Death, We Celebrate Life.

An absolutely Beautiful celebration of Life 💫🌻🌞❤️🤔

musicians have the chance to be buried in music! how many others leave only with sadness and tears!

The Preservation Hall Band are joined outside the Orpheum Theatre on Roosevelt Way by Trombone Shorty, Big Sam, Leo Neocentelli, Cyril Neville, Kidd Jordan, Ben Gregory, Roland Guerin, Mitch Landrieu, Rockin Dopsie Jr. John Boutte, Dr. John, Duvel Crawford, Irma Thomas, Deacon John and a host of others for Allen Toussaint’s Funeral Procession.

About 10 minutes in, you see the mayor gettin' down….RIP to the great and irreplaceable Allen Toussaint...

So Long Professor Toussaint,,,,we loved you madly,,,,,,

How GREAT HE WAS REST IN Peace he made me feel at. Peace

We will always remember because his music is our music, and the music will never die.

I first saw Mr. Toussaint's name when I was a 16 year-old in 1972. I bought the album Rock of Ages by The Band, and he was prominently credited for arranging the amazing horn parts. Still well worth listening to. From there I worked my way back to his great work with Minit Records and all the rest. He was a major player in the history of modern American music. While he was far from unknown, he never got his full due. RIP.

R I H Mr Allen Toussaint, NuAwlins will never be the same without You Sir !!!

Allen IS & WAS a musical GENIUS!!!!!!!

I spy with my little eye Mayor Mitch Landrieu's bald head bobbing up and down as he dances with Little Dopsie. So glad to be a New Orleans native. Love my peeps, and Allen sure brought us together. R.I.P. dear brother.

What a way to go out. He was truly loved. RIP.

This is how to celebrate a homegoing!🎉🎉🎉

This is beautiful. A brass band passed by my window and made me miss the sounds of the streets of New Orleans. Seems like the police could show some respect and turn off their sirens.

So many Nola legends in one video. Thanks for posting. What a wonderful celebration of life. I wouldn't wanna be from any other city

So sad we lost him too soon and he was so far away from those that loved him and knew what a great man he was.

There is hope for America.

He was the man. So humble.

I love that their mayor is out there dancing in the middle. Most politicians would be worried about how they look. God i love new orleans

RIP. Thanks, Allen, today one year later for all, but especially your "Yes, I Can" song, so relevant today for our country and world, as always! What a sendoff!! :)

Dr, John, wearing a hat and has ponytail. at 2:03 exiting the Orpheum( just beyond the tuba) and watching from the wall.. Rip Dr. John..and Allen Toussaint

It was a sadder day for me when you earned your Wings. God and rest of family getting to enjoy LXPrecords in Heaven, I will always treasure the memories and always love You !!!

I’ve never seen a funeral procession like this before. It mourns his death but also celebrates his life with both sad and happy music. I wish these were more common bc people deserve to know it’s appropriate to mourn but you should celebrate the lives of those who died as well

Celebration of a wonderful life... Will miss you, brother.

respect from holland!!!

A True Celebration of Life

Best funeral that I've ever seen

What a amazing man play that great

That's the way a funeral should be ...fun

Thank you SO MUCH for posting this for those of us that couldn't be there! Crying, smiling and dancing all at once.

Rest in peace, gentle giant !

Dr John walks out the front door at the beginning and turns to to his right. You can see the cane, hat and dread.

I'm 26 y/o. I got hopefully another 60 70 years but when I do go. I would add to my will for my family give me a nawlins type of funeral. I been in band when I was in middle and high school. So I want a happy jazz funeral. I have a phobia of funerals but a jazz one seems to be more happy and not depressed.

The dirge is so powerfully mournful.

what a legacy and what a tribute!

Thanks for posting this photo of Allen Toussaint. I was fortunate enough to see him several times in New Orleans and once in my hometown of Louisville Kentucky.

Rest In the Beauty you created

Saw John Boute' now that is a SINGER!!

So well done!

Thank you so much for sharing

My eyss sad my eyss joy rip allen mis you so

ALLEN was so so wonderful RIP jve

I needed this. Thank you.

Thank you

Genial

Os instrumentos choram, lamentam e se alegram. Bravo!

wow so amazing love u u mine brother i found ur song last night and who sing it and found u was gonne so much respect wow

a loverly soul indeed jve

I can just IMAGINE trying to describe this to someone 'from away".."Well, you see...after the slow march from the chapel, everybody gets up tempo and there's this jazzy music parade to the cemetery.." "At a FUNERAL?" "Yeah, mo' at a funeral, cuz....dis be N'awlins.."

Bellisimo, gracias lxprecords por compartir

The man was one of a kind so humble well spoken and he was flavor in assorted ♏usic I first stumble upon his name on the Credits on back of the Rock of Ages by the Band you got it his horns & chart arrangements caught my ears👂🌇👂🌃🎼👍

Ah, there's music in the streets and there's music in the air A little ol' soul beat and there's dancin' everywhere I would tell the whole world, tell 'em if I could To add a little song into each life, oh, it's a finger snappin' good

Thank you 🤗🍸

What a great way to go

Many thanks.

Amen!

Wardell and now Allen! R.I.P to both

What the name of that first song, that was one of funkest I've ever heard. The tuba's were smoking, but so was the rest of the band. They know how to do it in NOLA. I played with the Meter's back in 79 - 80, it was a pleasure playing with them, oh by the way I was on percussion.

That's great! "Didn't He Ramble", but they were just going into "Joe Avery" when the clip stopped. Please post the rest so we can hear "Joe Avery".

I don't want to diminish his passing, but the opening Preservation Dirge is so compelling, I'm sad that no one else has recorded it.

joy in life, joy in death

Sorry for your Loss.

even the mayor of New Orleans is Buck jumping

Ain't no place like nawlins !

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Just beautiful. I'm curious about who the bald man is exiting the building along with the musicians at the beginning.

RIP

Okay, so at @6:20 this woman is trying to take photos and gets tapped on the shoulder by a guy telling her to move AND THEN HE STARTS TAKING HIS OWN PICTURES wtf

excellente tenue de la cérémonie , bien dans la tradition . Chez nous aussi de petites formation accompagnaient les défunts jusqu'au cimetière ( mais tout le monde n'avait pas toujours ni l'envie ni l'argent pour se payer un orchestre parce que figurez- vous que les musiciens ne se nourissent pas uniquement de sons !!! Cette pratique a disparu avec la fin des corbillards tirés par des chevaux, souvent noirs et très beaux. Les corbillards modernes sont trop rapides et la musique ne pouvait pas suivre cette évolution . C'est fini ce temps-là : Brassens auraient probablement dit que les enterrement d'aujourd'hui sont bien moins marrants , les gens ne savent plus s'amuser hahahaha

That bald white guy is the Mayor of New Orleans!

talking about a wonderful funeral and all that attended, but no one mentioned our Mayor Mitch Landrieu, dancing around the 10:00 mark.

I know him because of Axe commercial #RIP

What's the name of the "tell me what you want" song?

Can anyone identify the awesome tuba player I was videotaping next to???? He is the BEST!!!!

I doubt the description of the video.

I see Trombone Shorty overt here. Am I right ?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

It cuts off at the best part

Dignity

I see Trombone Shorty there but who are the other Bone Players??

What's the name of the dirge the band is playing at the beginning?

Look for other big name artists like Renard Poche, Rockin Doopsie, John Boutte, Ken "Afro" Williams, Hack Bartholomew, James Andrews, Dwight Richards, Deacon John and many many more........... Call em out if you see them.........

Occapella(a.toussaint)

Think I saw Elvis Costello in the doorway far left around 3.00- 3.30 point. He bows down as Mr Toussaint leaves the building.

what song is that?

That Tuba player ........

Only in NOLA😌😌🎩🎩❤❤🎉🎉🎶🎶🎺🎷🎺🎷🎭🎭

This except has the Meters' Leo Nocentelli speaking gratefully about Allen and then Allen singing and playing all parts of his "Leo" song for his JazzFest band. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X5WF8tHYwvw.html