STATE corporation -- Terell Stafford had a surprising message for a jazz workshop: Ignore the music.

STATE corporation -- Terell Stafford had a surprising message for a jazz workshop: Ignore the music.

forward paper, he meant.

Instead, the vaunted jazz trumpeter told the State society Area High School jazz band members undivided afternoon last month, look up Watch the tympanums and bass. Feed off each other and transfer the little, black notes into unblemished emotion.

"There's nothing here to describe you how to feel," he said, holding up a page from a stand.

Band members soaked up his wisdom, their reward for being among the nation's best young jazz musicians.

The annual Essentially Ellington competition in of the present day York provided the session for State college edifice [i]or[/i] building one of 15 high-school jazz disposes nationwide chosen to celebrate the great Duke Ellington at Jazz at Lincoln Center this weekend.

The band arrived in novel York on Thursday, and today the State community students will don tuxedos and at hand ...