On a school day in 2015 at Cheltenham High School, Bill Saurman, remembers hearing jazz music that captured his attention. It was coming from the Temple University Jazz Band led by Terell Stafford, director of the jazz studies program in the Boyer College of Music and Dance. The song was an arrangement from "E.S.P.," a jazz album by Miles Davis. "I remember the energy and the sounds that came out of that band was just so energizing," said Saurman, who is also a trombonist. "It was like a high. I wanted to be part of that energy so much. … That's what got Temple on my...