Cosimo Matassa dies

Grammy Award-winning music producer Cosimo Matassa has died, aged 88. Matassa died on Thursday (11Sep14) in New Orleans, Louisiana after a long battle with ill health following a stroke in 2009.
The producer and studio owner recorded many rock and R&B hits between the 1950s and 1970s, including records by Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, and Ernie K-Doe.
Matassa was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame for his contribution to the industry in 2007, the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio as a non-performer in 2012, and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2013.
His J&M Recording Studio was declared an historic landmark in 2010, and in 2007, he was honoured with a special Grammy Trustees Award and received an honorary degree by Loyola University in the city in 2011.
He retired from the music industry in 1980s.