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Photos: Allen Toussaint, a New Orleans legend

New Orleans musician, composer and record producer Allen Toussaint performing on the Jazz Tent stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2010. Toussaint died in Spain after a performance.

New Orleans musician, composer and record producer Allen Toussaint performing on the Jazz Tent stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2010. Toussaint died in Spain after a performance.

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Allen Toussaint performs at the 42nd Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York in 2011.

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Allen Toussaint performs at the Jazz Vitoria festival in Vitoria, Spain, in 2009. The musician died this week shortly after giving a performance in Madrid.

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Allen Toussaint performed at UCLA’s Royce Hall in 2010.

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

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Allen Toussaint thanks the audience at a benefit concert in his honor at Harrah’s New Orleans in 2013.

  (David Grunfeld / Associated Press)

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President Obama greets Allen Toussaint in the East Room of the White House in July 2013 during a ceremony to award the 2012 National Medal of Arts.

  (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images)

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Allen Toussaint arrives for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in New York in 1998.

  (Kathy Willens / Associated Press)

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