page_title: Terell Stafford
section_title: As leader
hierarchical_section_title: Terell Stafford / Discography / As leader
caption_attribution_description: English: Terell Stafford performing in Aarhus Denmark 2012
context_page_description: Terell Stafford is a professional jazz trumpet player and current Director of Jazz Studies at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University.
  Terell Stafford was born in Miami, Florida, and raised in both Chicago, Illinois, and Silver Spring, Maryland. He went on to get a degree in music education from University of Maryland in 1988 and a degree in classical trumpet performance from Rutgers University in 1993. Originally a classical trumpet player, Stafford soon branched out to jazz with the University of Maryland jazz band.
  His career in jazz soon picked up and has played with McCoy Tyner, Christian McBride, John Clayton, Steve Turre, Dave Valentin, and Russell Malone and on stages such as Carnegie Hall and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He recently released a CD entitled New Beginnings featuring a number of other new up-and-coming musicians such as bassist Derrick Hodge.
  In addition to his position at Temple, Terell Stafford has also worked with the Juilliard School's jazz program, at the Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington program, and with the 2006 All-Alaska Jazz Band.
context_section_description: Time To Let Go (Candid, 1995)
  Centripetal Force (Candid, 1996)
  Gentle Warrior (Criss Cross Jazz, 1997)
  Fields of Gold (Nagel Heyer, 1999)
  New Beginnings (Maxjazz, 2003)
  Taking Chances: Live at the Dakota (Maxjazz, 2005)
  Bridging the Gap (Planet Arts, 2009)
  This Side of Strayhorn (Maxjazz, 2011)
  Brotherlee Love (Capri, 2015).
  Forgive and Forget  (Herb Harris Music, 2016).
caption: Terell Stafford 
   In Aarhus Denmark (2012)
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