Known For
Sound
Born
Mar 13, 1962
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Credits
90 titles
Terence Blanchard
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Children of Blood and Bone
Original Music Composer
The Metropolitan Opera: Champion
Music
The Woman King
Original Music Composer
A Jazzman's Blues
Music Producer
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Music
Father of the Bride
Original Music Composer
They Call Me Magic
Original Music Composer
Bruised
Original Music Composer
Swagger
Original Music Composer
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Original Music Composer
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
Original Music Composer
Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
Self - Host
One Night in Miami...
Orchestrator
Perry Mason
Original Music Composer
Da 5 Bloods
Original Music Composer
On the Record
Original Music Composer
Harriet
Conductor
Guilty until Proven Guilty
BlacKkKlansman
Orchestrator
Shots Fired
Original Music Composer
The Comedian
Original Music Composer
Jazz at the White House
Self
Chi-Raq
Music
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Black or White
Original Music Composer
Gun Hill
Original Music Composer
Betty and Coretta
Original Music Composer
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
Original Music Composer
Red Tails
Original Music Composer
The Key Man
Original Music Composer
Bunraku
Original Music Composer
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Original Music Composer
Just Wright
Jazz Musician
Treme
The Princess and the Frog
Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
Cadillac Records
Original Music Composer
Miracle at St. Anna
Original Music Composer
Lights, Action, Music
Self
Talk to Me
Original Music Composer
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self
Waist Deep
Original Music Composer
Inside Man
Original Music Composer
All the Invisible Children
Original Music Composer
Jesus Children of America
Original Music Composer
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
Trumpet
Lethal Seduction
Original Music Composer
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Original Music Composer
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Self
Sucker Free City
Original Music Composer
She Hate Me
Original Music Composer