Cosimo Matassa, the New Orleans studio owner and recording engineer who helped craft timeless recordings by Fats Domino, Little Richard, Irma Thomas, Professor Longhair, Lee Dorsey, Lloyd Price, Aaron ...

The New Orleans community will remember Cosimo Matassa Tuesday, a man who made his reputation for the New Orleans' sound behind the studio glass.Watch reportMatassa passed away Thursday, Sept. 11 at ...

Among my post last week, I received a nice care package from Ace Records that included one quite weird Duke Ellington album ("My People"); Volume 3 of their "Where Country Meets Soul" series (I cannot ...

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 ...

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 in front of the family's grocery shop in New Orleans Credit: Photo: ALAMY COSIMO MATASSA, the studio owner and recording engineer, who has died aged 88, was critical in forging the ...

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 suffering a ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. -- 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 ...

Fats Domino listens to a recording with co-writer, musician and arranger Dave Bartholomew, right, at Cosimo Matassa's recording studio in New Orleans, about 1956. This one’s for the record geeks. Over ...

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 ...