Jazz a la Carte, May 13 & 14, 2011.  Students of Temple’s Jazz Studies program have opportunities to participate in both large and small ensembles providing a comprehensive performance experience in solo as well as ensemble playing. Graduates of the jazz program are well-prepared to begin careers as professional performers, composers, and educators.
The Temple University Jazz Band is led by trumpeter and Professor of Jazz Studies, Terell Stafford. The TUJB performs on Temple's main campus and throughout the greater Philadelphia region, and hosts the annual Essentially Ellington Eastern Regional High School Jazz Band Festival. Other festival appearances include the Mellon/PSFS Jazz Festival, the East Coast Jazz Festival, the Midwest Clinic-International Band and Orchestra Conferences and, this year, the Detroit International Jazz Festival.  The TUJB is also a frequent award winner at the annual Villanova Jazz Festival.
The Temple University Jazz Band has performed repeatedly at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center and Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center.  In March 2003, the TUJB completed a successful tour of Germany which included five performances with the Phoenix Foundation Jazz Band. The TUJB traveled to Amsterdam in May 2008, where they performed with the Amsterdam Conservatory Jazz Band and then at The Hague Jazz Festival. Other performances in recent seasons have included appearances with John Faddis, Frank Wess, Clark Terry, Joe Wilder, Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson and Karrin Allyson at the Kimmel Center and at Dizzy’s Club at New York’s Lincoln Center.  In November 2007, the band was thrilled to share the stage with the legendary Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Artists-in-Residence with the Jazz Studies Program.
Many internationally renowned jazz artists have appeared with the TUJB, including Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Lewis, Dick Oatts, Byron Stripling, Conrad Herwig, Claudio Roditi, Antonio Hart, Max Roach, McCoy Tyner, Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis and Dr. Billy Taylor in performances, master classes and clinics.
Mean What You Say, the Jazz Band’s premiere CD, was released in 2003 followed by the Jazz Ensemble’s Room 323 in 2005 on the Seabreeze Vista Label.

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