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A major West Coast music industry leader had his first jam session in La Conner.

Only it was one that gave little hint Frank Handy would later rise to a top executive position with Los Angeles-based Position Music, an independent record label and management firm that has built a multinational presence over the past two decades.

Handy’s uncle, La Conner native Neil Bretvick, now a Seattle area accountant and himself a music aficionado, tells the story best.

“He destroyed my vinyl copy of James Taylor’s “JT” album as an infant, getting berry jam all over it,” Bretvick, a 1976 La C...