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Temple’s head of jazz studies excels as teacher and performer

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Renowned Philadelphia jazz trumpeter Terell Stafford is a teacher, player, bandleader and composer. "I don't sleep much," admits the Temple director of jazz studies and chair of instrumental studies. As a teacher he’s credited with being unusually accessible, an attribute learned from his mentors. "They'd make time for me and my dumb questions. . . . I want to pass along to my students what some of these folks have passed along to me."