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Melton Mustafa
Melton Mustafa is an Internationally known Jazz Trumpeter, arranger/composer, Music Educator, Band Leader, and Clinician
About Me
As an entrepreneur, Mustafa Mustafa is affiliated with ZAKI Publishing,
Inc., The Melton Mustafa Orchestra, Inc., and MSM Arts, Inc. a non-
profit Arts Organization.
Trumpet player extraordinaire, arranger/composer, producer, and
educator. Melton has performed with some of the top names in JAZZ
including the Count Basie Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Woody
Herman Orchestra, Bobby Watson, Jaco Pastorius, George Cables,
John Hicks, Charlie Mingus Dynasty, and Gunter Shuller, among many
others.
Mustafa has played in many of the international Jazz Festival which
include the Playboy Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Ravina
Jazz Festival, SS Norway Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival,
Lugano Jazz Festival (Italy), Pori Jazz Festival, Charlie Mingus Epitaph
Orchestra in Russia and many others.
As a traveling artist, Mustafa manages to conduct his duties as an
educator, Mustafa is currently the Director of Jazz Studies at Florida
Memorial University where he teaches Music Theory, Jazz Composition
and other jazz related courses. He also produces his Annual Melton
Mustafa Jazz Festival at Florida Memorial University. Some of the guest
artists that appeared at the Festival from (1996-2009) were, Jon Faddis,
Abraham Laboriel, Benny Golson, Dr. Nathan Davis, Dr. Grover
Washington Jr., Dr. James Moody, Idris Muhammad, George Cables,
Wallace Roney, Patrice Rushen, Geri Allen, Jimmy Owens, Billy
Cobham, Herbie Mann, Dr. Billy Taylor, Clarke Terry, Curtis Fuller,
Nestor Torres, Winard Harper, Najee, Randy Brecker, and others.
Mustafa has released three CD's as a big band and small band leader
entitled Boiling Point Melton Mustafa Orchestra, St. Louis Blues
Melton Mustafa Orchestra and “The Softer Side” Scenes from Miami Vol
1.