''Toussaint'' (also known as ''From a Whisper to a Scream'' in some editions) is a 1971 solo funk, jazz and soul album by Allen Toussaint, his second solo album and his first since the 1950s.

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Allen Toussaint unless otherwise indicated. # "From a Whisper To a Scream" – 3:27 # " Chokin' Kind" (

Harlan Howard Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote many popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists. C ...

) – 3:23 # "Number Nine" – 3:37 # "Either" – 2:52 # "Sweet Touch of Love" – 3:20 # " Working in a Coal Mine" – 3:13 # "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky" – 3:12 # "Louie" – 3:04 # "What is Success" – 3:34 # "Pickles" – 4:27 # " Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Carel Rowe,

Vince Guaraldi Vincent Anthony Guaraldi (; né Dellaglio, July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the ''Peanuts'' comic strip. His compositions for this series includ ...

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Personnel

*Allen Toussaint –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

and vocal *

Mac Rebennack Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer and songwriter. His music encompassed New Orleans blues, jazz, funk, and R&B. Active as a session musician from t ...

– organ and

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

*Terry Kellman – guitar *Eddie Hohner – bass *Freddie Staehle – drums *John Boudreaux – drums *

Ed Greene Ed Greene is an American drummer and session musician. In 1971 he recorded with Donald Byrd (''Ethiopian Knights'', 1972), together with Thurman Green, Harold Land, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Sample, Bobbye Porter Hall, David T. Walker, and W ...

– drums *Clyde Kerr - trumpet *Earl Turbinton - alto saxophone *Frederic Kemp -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

Merry Clayton Merry Clayton (born December 25, 1948) is an American soul and gospel singer. She provided a number of backing vocal tracks for major performing artists in the 1960s, most notably in her duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song " Gimme S ...

- backing vocals *

Venetta Fields Venetta Lee Fields (born 1941) is an American-born singer, musical theater actress and vocal coach. She was a backing vocalist for American and British rock and pop acts of the 1960s and 1970s, including Ike & Tina Turner, Pink Floyd, Humble Pi ...

- backing vocals *Dick Smith - artwork

References

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