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Bill conducts the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra with trumpeter Terell Stafford

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Bill and the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra celebrate the music of Dizzy Gillespie with trumpeter Terell Stafford. Stafford Director of Jazz Studies at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University.

He 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, 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.