Cosimo Matassa, the legendary recording engineer and studio owner who helped introduce and shape New Orleans’ early rhythm and blues and rock ’n’ roll sound and was inducted into the Rock and Roll ...

Cosimo Matassa recorded songs by Fats Domino, Little Richard, Professor Longhair and Jerry Lee Lewis and helped get the New Orleans sound out to... Cosimo Matassa Made His Reputation Behind The Studio ...

NEW ORLEANS - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Cosimo Matassa, who recorded New Orleans rock and rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the 1970s, has died. He was 88. Matassa, who had been ailing since ...

Baton Rouge Magnet High School radio stations WBRH-FM (90.3) and KBRH-AM (1260) will pay tribute to the late New Orleans recording studio owner and engineer Cosimo Matassa from 8 a.m. through noon, ...

The nonprofit that controls the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has purchased a landmark of the city’s musical history — the original site of Cosimo Matassa’s recording studio. The building, at ...

Visitation and funeral arrangements for Cosimo Matassa — the New Orleans studio owner and engineer who recorded national and regional hits by Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Irma Thomas, Art and Aaron ...

Cosimo Matassa - the New Orleans recording maestro and studio owner who shaped early R&B and rock 'n' roll and the "New Orleans sound" - has died at age 88, WWL-TV reports. Matassa's J&M Recording ...

Seventy years ago, a humble recording studio on North Rampart Street changed popular music forever. On Dec. 10, 1949, a stout young singer and piano player named Antoine "Fats" Domino cut his very ...

In 1924, Giovanni “John” Matassa, a Sicilian immigrant, opened a bar called Johnny Matassa’s next to his corner grocery store at Dauphine and St. Philip streets. John’s son Cosimo Matassa was the ...

The Ponderosa Stomp Foundation, along with the Louisiana State Museum, host a gala tribute to New Orleans music royalty Cosimo Matassa and Dave Bartholomew at the Louisiana State Museum's Cabildo in ...

New Orleans will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Sept. 16, 1964, concert at City Park on the same day it says goodbye to Cosimo Matassa. In early 1964, the British music invasion led by ...

Cosimo Matassa, the legendary recording engineer and studio owner who helped introduce and shape New Orleans' early rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll sound and was inducted into the Rock and Roll ...