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Laurie Pepper: The Tampa Story

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Marc Myers
Feb 20, 2015
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Art Pepper recorded two albums on the Tampa label—The Marty Paich Quartet Featuring Art Pepper in August 1956 and The Art Pepper Quartet in November of that year. Tampa was founded in Los Angeles in 1955 by Robert Scherman, who previously had been president of Atlas Records (1944-1948), head of Webster Records (1949-1950), head of A&R at King Records be…

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