Concert with jazz trumpeter, Terell Stafford

Trumpet player Terell Stafford has been hailed as ?one of the great players of our time..? by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as an incredibly gifted and versatile player, who combines a deep love of melody with his own brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism. Stafford has performed with groups such as Benny Golson?s Sextet, McCoy Tyner?s Sextet, Kenny Barron Quintet, Jimmy Heath Quintet and Big Band, Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band. Stafford performed on Diana Krall?s GRAMMY nominated From this Moment On (2006). He is a member of the GRAMMY winning Vanguard Orchestra and can be heard on over 130 albums. His album, This Side of Strayhorn, was widely praised in 2011 as ?a must have? for jazz aficionados. Stafford is the director of jazz studies and chair of instrumental studies at Temple University, founder and band leader of the Terell Stafford Quintet, and managing and artistic director of the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia.