Photo by Jimmy Ryan
Terell Stafford is known as an acclaimed trumpeter, in-demand sideman, chart-climbing bandleader and influential educator. Yet in the course of my interview with him for All About Jazz, he also emerged as a passionate student, expressing relentless curiosity to hear more of his predecessors and contemporaries, and an incredibly modest soul.
Just don’t tell him “can’t” or “won’t!”
The value of hard work, learning from the masters and the blues, courtesy of Terell Stafford on All About Jazz:
Terell Stafford: Trial and Inspiration
