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Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter, pianist and composer. A jazz musician, he has also composed film scores and operas. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed on more than fifty.
With big shoes to fill, SFJAZZ taps Terence Blanchard to lead the way, WRTI. Read more. See Me As I Am. Lincoln Center’s Year-Long Celebration of Terence Blanchard.
The video home of 5 time Grammy Award winning trumpeter, film, broadway and opera composer Terence Blanchard.
Born in New Orleans in 1962, Blanchard began playing piano at the age of 5. He added trumpet three years later. In summer music camps, he became friends with Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis. After a teenage stint touring with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, in 1982 Wynton recommended him to take his place in Art Blakley’s Jazz Messengers.
About Terence Blanchard. Oscar nominee, six-time Grammy-winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies – past and present. From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films ranging from the ...
Sep 28, 2021 · Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on a memoir by Charles M. Blow, is the first opera by a Black composer presented by the Metropolitan Opera in the New York institution's 138 ...
Sep 27, 2021 · Terence Blanchard Is The First Black Composer Played At The Metropolitan Opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the Charles M. Blow memoir of the same title, is the first work by a Black ...
