SHEPP, ARCHIE VERNON. Jazz saxophonist ( in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida). His family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when he was seven years old, and he obtained his musical education in the public schools of Philadelphia and at Goddard College in Vermont (B.A., 1959), where he majored in dramatic literature. He began playing saxophone when he was about fifteen. An early influence upon his development was a local jazz workshop, where he came into contact with Lee Morgan and Kenny...