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 ...

The following is an open letter to Mayor Cantrell and the City of New Orleans from Rob Florence who is urging the City to rename Governor Nicholls Street to Cosmio Matassa Street. To sign the petition ...

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 ...

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 Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting 300 people who have made New Orleans New Orleans, featuring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Born in a city where music and food are not just staples but religions, the legendary New Orleans engineer Cosimo Matassa founded his first studio in the closest thing to a church minus the Mass: his ...

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 ...

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 ...