Trumpeter Terell Stafford has been hailed as "one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player" by piano legend McCoy Tyner, with whom Terell played as part of McCoy Tyner’s Latin All-Star Band. Since the mid-1990's Terell has performed with the top groups including the Grammy-nominated Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. An educator as well as a performer, Terell is a Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at Temple University, a clinician for the Vail Foundation and Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington Program. He has also served as a member of the faculty for the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies in New York.