If there is one man who singularly charted the course for New Orleans' contribution to the world of popular music, that man is Cosimo Matassa. Modest almost to a fault, were it not for Matassa's engineering skills, a vast chunk of rock 'n' roll, R&B and jazz history would have gone unrecorded and unheralded and "the New Orleans Sound," as we know it today, may never have been. Having cut virtually every record to come out of New Orleans from 1945 to 1969, his intuitive love and understanding ...