Jazz trumpeter, band leader, copmoser, arranger and Grammy winner.
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and Golden Globe-nominated film score composer. Since he emerged on the scene in 1980 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then shortly thereafter with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Blanchard has been a leading artist in jazz. He was an integral figure in the 1980s jazz resurgence having recorded several award-winning albums and having performed with the jazz elite. He is known as a straight-ahead artist in the hard bop tradition but has recently utilized an African-fusion style of playing that makes him unique from other trumpeters on the performance circuit. However, it is as a film composer that Blanchard reaches his widest audience. His trumpet can be heard on nearly fifty film scores; more than forty bear his unmistakable compositional style. Since 2000, Blanchard has served as Artistic Director at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. He lives in the Garden District of New Orleans with his wife and four children.
Terence Blanchard appears in the following:
Terence Blanchard's Oscar Nomination for 'Da 5 Bloods'
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Opinion: Black Protest Is Music. Learning The Melody Isn't Enough
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Terence Blanchard's Music for 'Da 5 Bloods'
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Jazz and Social Justice at SummerStage
Thursday, August 04, 2016
The Greene Space
The Global Salon: New Orleans
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
7:00 PM
With Golden Globe nominee/Grammy-winning film composer, musician Terence Blanchard and writer and prizewinning translator from New Orleans and current Chair of the PEN Translation Committee, Susan Bernofsky.
Guest Picks: Terence Blanchard
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Jazz musician Terence Blanchard stopped by The Leonard Lopate Show to talk about what he has been reading and watching recently!
Terence Blanchard
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard talks about his career as a musician and film score composer, and his performances with the Terence Blanchard Quintet at Birdland August 2-6. He has more than 29 albums and multiple Grammy Awards and nominations to his credit as a musician, and he’s composed the scores for Spike Lee’s films, from “Do the Right Thing” to “Malcolm X” and “Inside Man” to “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.”
A 'Requiem for Katrina' with Terence Blanchard
Thursday, August 26, 2010
It's been five years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast, ripping the footing out from under the residents of New Orleans. Many of those residents were musicians, who not only had to rebuild their homes but find their creative spirit after the devastation of the storm. Terence Blanchard, Grammy-winning jazz musician, says he's learned how to set his ego aside when composing music in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Remixing Mardi Gras Music with Terence Blanchard and Nick Spitzer
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
It's Fat Tuesday, the day of excess before Lent begins, and the day would not be complete without the sound of horns, drums and jubilant voices singing throughout the French Quarter of New Orleans.
