Cosimo Matassa Story by Various Artists (CD, 2007)

Proper Box / Proper Records

0805520021296

23050189899

Various Artists

1950s

CD

2007

Early R&B

Remastered, Studio Recording

Cosimo Matassa Story

Album, Box Set

17432 Sec

R&B & Soul, Blues

James Wayne, John Boudreaux, Charles "Honeyman" Otis, Cornelius Coleman, Kenneth Theriot, Eric Warner, Charles "Hungry" Williams, Earl Palmer, Eddie Landers, Eugene Jones, Bartholomew Smith Frost, Justin Adams, Oscar Moore

4 stars out of 5 -- "A winner....Between the 40s and 70s, Cosimo Matassa owned four studios in New Orleans, where he recorded R&B giants such as Little Richard, Fats Domino and Lloyd Price...", "This collection provides a great overview of everything that was going on in non-jazz New Orleans music from 1950 to 1956..."

Bill Moore Lucky Seven Band, Edgar "BigBoy" Myles, Elmer Breeding, Lloyd Price, Bernie Williams, Jimmy Beasley, Oliver Howard, Roy "Baldhead" Byrd, Charles "Hungry" Williams, Ledbetter, James Wayne, Shirley Goodman, Tiny Brown, Dave Bartholomew, Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow, Buddy Charles, J.D., Fat Man Matthews, Bobby Mitchell & the Toppers, Eddie Bo, w. Armstead, Eddie Jones, Smiley Lewis, Tommy Ridgley, Brown, Slim Saunders, D. Nero, Leonard Lee, Baby Davis, R. Williams, Frank BOCAGE, Lowell Fulson, Earl King, Werly Fairburn, Joseph Gaines, Art Neville, Leo Price & Band, Dave Dixon, w. Moon, Chuck Carbo, Joe Maxon, Fats Domino, Eddie Ray, Willie Connell Johnson, Little Mr Midnight, Roy Montrell, Junior Gordon, Pee Wee Crayton, Ernest Kador, Allene Matthews, Roland Cook

City Hall

4

Stereo

Smiley Lewis, Irving Banister, Rene Hall, Snooks Eaglin, Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow, Buddy Charles, Joe Fritz, Harrison Verrett, Roy Montrell, Justin Adams, Ernest Mclean, Lowell Fulson, Ernest Meyer, Eddie Jones, Pee Wee Crayton, Walter Nelson, Edgar Blanchard, Earl King, Larry Guidry, Werly Fairburn, Alfred August

Gerald Adams, Mckinley J. Miller, Clement Tervalone, Edgar Blanchard, William Diamond, Joe Martin, James Prevost, Roland Cook

120

Czechia