Terence Blanchard

Known for SoundBorn 1962-03-13 (age 64)New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He has also written two operas and more than 80 film and television scores. Blanchard has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Original Score for BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Da 5 Bloods, both directed by Spike Lee, a frequent collaborator. Blanchard started his career in 1980, playing in the Lionel Hampton Orchestra while studying jazz at Rutgers University. In 1982, just before he turned 20, he dropped out of Rutgers to join The Jazz Messengers, launching a professional career now in its fifth decade. The Metropolitan Opera in New York staged Blanchard's opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones in its 2021–2022 season, the first opera by an African American composer in the organization's history. Blanchard is also a passionate educational mentor. From 2000 to 2011, Blanchard served as artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. In 2011, he was named artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami, and in 2015, he became a visiting scholar in jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music. In 2019, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) named Blanchard to its Endowed Chair in Jazz Studies, where he remained until 2023. In 2023, SFJAZZ announced the appointment of Blanchard as Executive Artistic Director. He leads the organization's artistic programming and guides its overall creative direction. Blanchard was selected as the 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters. The program is one of the most prestigious honours in jazz. Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Sonny Rollins are among the 173 fellows recognized by the NEA as great figures of jazz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Terence Blanchard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Free of Eden

The Metropolitan Opera: Champion

Bojangles

Jesus Children of America

Swagger

The Woman King

Abducted: The Carlina White Story

Treme

A Jazzman's Blues

BlacKkKlansman

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Harriet

A Girl Thing

Malcolm X

Inside Man

They Call Me Magic

Perry Mason

Love & Basketball

25th Hour

Betty and Coretta

The Princess and the Frog

Gun Hill

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

One Night in Miami...

4 Little Girls

Cadillac Records

Gia

Lights, Action, Music

All the Invisible Children

Bruised

Navigating the Heart

Black or White

Talk to Me

Crooklyn

Red Tails

Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

A Saintly Switch

Clockers

Just Wright

The Salton Sea

On the Record

Da 5 Bloods

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

Father of the Bride

The Oscars

Waist Deep

Next Friday