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Terence Blanchard

Terence Blanchard

Known For Sound
Birthday Mar 13, 1962 (63)
Birthplace New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Popularity 2 (history)
Updated Apr 06, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 30, 2024
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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 Sp ... ike 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

The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog

2009

as Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)

Malcolm X

Malcolm X

1992

as Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet

The Woman King

The Woman King

2022

Original Music Composer

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

2022

Original Music Composer

A Jazzman's Blues

A Jazzman's Blues

2022

Music Arranger, Music Producer

Bruised

Bruised

2020

Original Music Composer

One Night in Miami...

One Night in Miami...

2020

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods

2020

Conductor, Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

On the Record

On the Record

2020

Original Music Composer

Harriet

Harriet

2019

Conductor, Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

2018

Conductor, Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

The Comedian

The Comedian

2016

Original Music Composer

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

2015

Original Music Composer, Music

Black or White

Black or White

2014

Original Music Composer

Gun Hill

Gun Hill

2014

Original Music Composer

Abducted: The Carlina White Story

Abducted: The Carlina White Story

2012

Original Music Composer

Red Tails

Red Tails

2012

Original Music Composer

The Key Man

The Key Man

2011

Original Music Composer

Bunraku

Bunraku

2010

Original Music Composer

Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna

2008

Original Music Composer

Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records

2008

Original Music Composer

Talk to Me

Talk to Me

2007

Original Music Composer

Waist Deep

Waist Deep

2006

Original Music Composer

Inside Man

Inside Man

2006

Original Music Composer

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

2005

Original Music Composer

Lethal Seduction

Lethal Seduction

2005

Original Music Composer

She Hate Me

She Hate Me

2004

Original Music Composer

Sucker Free City

Sucker Free City

2004

Original Music Composer

25th Hour

25th Hour

2002

Original Music Composer

Jim Brown: All-American

Jim Brown: All-American

2002

Original Music Composer

Barbershop

Barbershop

2002

Original Music Composer

People I Know

People I Know

2002

Original Music Composer

Dark Blue

Dark Blue

2002

Original Music Composer

Glitter

Glitter

2001

Original Music Composer

Original Sin

Original Sin

2001

Original Music Composer

The Caveman's Valentine

The Caveman's Valentine

2001

Original Music Composer

Bojangles

Bojangles

2001

Original Music Composer

Navigating the Heart

Navigating the Heart

2000

Compositors, Music

Love & Basketball

Love & Basketball

2000

Original Music Composer

The Truth About Jane

The Truth About Jane

2000

Original Music Composer

Next Friday

Next Friday

2000

Original Music Composer

Bamboozled

Bamboozled

2000

Original Music Composer

A Saintly Switch

A Saintly Switch

1999

Music

Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam

1999

Conductor, Original Music Composer

The Tempest

The Tempest

1998

Original Music Composer

Gia

Gia

1998

Original Music Composer

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou

1997

Original Music Composer

Til There Was You

Til There Was You

1997

Original Music Composer

4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls

1997

Original Music Composer

Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus

1996

Original Music Composer

Clockers

Clockers

1995

Original Music Composer

Crooklyn

Crooklyn

1994

Original Music Composer

The Inkwell

The Inkwell

1994

Original Music Composer

Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill

1994

Original Music Composer

Trial by Jury

Trial by Jury

1994

Original Music Composer

Malcolm X

Malcolm X

1992

Original Music Composer

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

1991

Original Music Composer

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

as Self

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Aug 21, 2006

Treme

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 11, 2010

The Oscars

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 19, 1953

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 08, 2015

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