http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosimo_Matassa
http://louisianamusichalloffame.org/content/view/50/77/
Click on the above two links for more information on Cosimo Matassa.
Here an interview with Cosimo Matassa and other New Orleans music people on AmericanRoutes.org
http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/archives/show/257/new-orleans-music-rb-roots-rock-and-soul-gospel-and-funk
Cosimo Matassa Recalls Engineering the New Orleans Sound. Click on the link below.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-07-15-cosimo-matassa-new-orleans_N.htm
I remember walking on a street in New Orleans in 1965 or 1966 and hearing music coming out of a building on Gov. Nicholls Street(mentioned in the article above). I didn't know it at the time but it was the Cosimo Matassa studio. I wasn't sure of it until I read the article linked above.
