Cosimo Matassa

…the watchful eye of owner-engineer Cosimo Matassa. Many of those recordings were supervised by Dave Bartholomew, Robert (“Bumps”) Blackwell, or Paul Gayten and released on out-of-town labels (Imperial and Specialty in Los Angeles, Chess in Chicago). Bartholomew, a multitalented composer-arranger who had played trumpet for Duke Ellington, put together an…