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.
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Movies (42)
The Metropolitan Opera: Champion
Music (Sound)
2023
The Woman King
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2022
A Jazzman's Blues
Music Producer (Sound)
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Music (Sound)
2022
Father of the Bride
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2022
Bruised
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2021
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2021
Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
as Self - Host
2021
One Night in Miami...
Orchestrator (Sound)
2020
Da 5 Bloods
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2020
On the Record
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2020
Harriet
Conductor (Sound)
2019
Guilty until Proven Guilty
2018
BlacKkKlansman
Orchestrator (Sound)
2018
The Comedian
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2016
Jazz at the White House
as Self
2016
Chi-Raq
Music (Sound)
2015
Black or White
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2014
Gun Hill
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2014
Betty and Coretta
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2013
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2012
Red Tails
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2012
The Key Man
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2011
Bunraku
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2010
Just Wright
as Jazz Musician
2010
The Princess and the Frog
as Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
2009
Cadillac Records
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2008
Miracle at St. Anna
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2008
Lights, Action, Music
as Self
2007
Talk to Me
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2007
Waist Deep
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2006
Inside Man
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2006
All the Invisible Children
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2006
Jesus Children of America
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2005
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
as Trumpet
2005
Lethal Seduction
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2005
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2005
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
as Self
2005
Sucker Free City
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2004
She Hate Me
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2004
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2004
25th Hour
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2002
TV Shows (8)
They Call Me Magic
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2022
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2021
Perry Mason
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2020
Shots Fired
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2010
Treme
2010
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
as Self
2006