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ravi and charnett moffett -lrb- right -rrb- performing at the newport coltrane jazz festival on august 13 , 2005 . -lrb- left -rrb- , terell stafford , -lsb- http://www.terellstafford.com/ official website -rsb- 1995 -- present terell stafford
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terell stafford

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 .
