al mcguire Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 You might not know his name but you have heard his records. http://www.wwltv.com/story/entertainment/arts/2014/09/11/cosimo-matassa-dies-t-88/15466137/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Thanks for that piece of music & recording history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Thanks for that piece of music & recording history. Indeed. I love his story. RIP Cosimo. CrewC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard-NYNY Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 bravo, cosimo. rock in peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soundtrane Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 wonderful man... rip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al mcguire Posted September 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2014 Last one, I promise http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/arts/music/cosimo-matassa-whose-studio-birthed-a-rock-n-roll-sound-dies-at-88.html?src=me “Virtually every R&B record made in New Orleans between the late ’40s and the early ’70s was engineered by Cosimo Matassa, and recorded in one of his four studios,” Jeff Hannusch wrote in “I Hear You Knockin’: The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues” (1985). More than 250 nationally charting singles and 21 gold records were recorded at the studio, most of them distinguished by what came to be known as the Cosimo sound: strong drums, heavy bass, light piano, heavy guitar and light horns. It is sometimes also called simply the New Orleans sound. The studio became a sought-after resource for the independent labels that emerged or grew in importance after World War II. Chess, Aladdin, De Luxe, Atlantic, Savoy and Specialty, among others, used the studio, originally for just $15 an hour. The hits born there included Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” and “Good Golly Miss Molly”; Big Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll”; Professor Longhair’s “Mardi Gras in New Orleans”; Smiley Lewis’s “I Hear You Knockin’ ”; Frankie Ford’s “Sea Cruise”; and Chris Kenner’s “Land of 1,000 Dances.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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