Music in real places

J&M Recording Studio, North Rampart Street

838 North Rampart Street, New Orleans

Explore the places

Markers identify buildings or documented location references. They do not mark an exact recording room, stage position or camera angle.

J&M Recording Studio, North Rampart Street — Map source

A shopfront on North Rampart Street, New Orleans, with iron gates, a hanging sign and a historic plaque — The former J&M Music Shop and studio on North Rampart Street, 2008, by then a laundry. Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 3.0. Existing local rendition. Venue illustration; not a photograph of the historic music event.

A round terrazzo floor sign reading J&M Music Shop at a doorway — The J&M Music Shop name set into the entrance floor on Rampart Street. Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 3.0. Existing local rendition. Venue illustration; not a photograph of the historic music event.

Music happened here

Tutti Frutti: a performance finds its recording room

Little Richard records Tutti Frutti at J&M

1955

Little Richard recorded Tutti Frutti at Cosimo Matassa’s J&M recording facility on North Rampart Street in New Orleans in 1955.

Cosimo Matassa, by Ben Sandmel
LGBTQ+ People on the Recording Registry: Tutti Frutti

Reading the place today

This identifies the historical Rampart Street recording facility. It makes no promise of interior access, surviving session equipment or a studio tour.