Terence Blanchard
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- March 13, 1962 (age 64)
- Birthplace
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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
Movie · Original Music Composer
By Any Means
Movie · Original Music Composer
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
The Metropolitan Opera: Champion
Movie · Music
The Woman King
Movie · Original Music Composer
Father of the Bride
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Jazzman's Blues
Movie · Music Producer, Music Arranger, Songs
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Movie · Music
They Call Me Magic
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bruised
Movie · Original Music Composer
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
Swagger
TV · Original Music Composer · 18 eps
One Night in Miami...
Movie · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
On the Record
Movie · Original Music Composer
Da 5 Bloods
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
Perry Mason
TV · Original Music Composer · 16 eps
Harriet
Movie · Conductor, Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
BlacKkKlansman
Movie · Orchestrator, Conductor, Original Music Composer
Shots Fired
TV · Original Music Composer · 10 eps
The Comedian
Movie · Original Music Composer
Chi-Raq
Movie · Original Music Composer
Black or White
Movie · Original Music Composer
Gun Hill
Movie · Original Music Composer
Betty and Coretta
Movie · Original Music Composer
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
Movie · Original Music Composer
Red Tails
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Key Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bunraku
Movie · Original Music Composer
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
Cadillac Records
Movie · Original Music Composer
Miracle at St. Anna
Movie · Original Music Composer
Talk to Me
Movie · Original Music Composer
Inside Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
Waist Deep
Movie · Original Music Composer
All the Invisible Children
Movie · Original Music Composer
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
TV · Music · 4 eps
Lethal Seduction
Movie · Original Music Composer
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Movie · Original Music Composer
Jesus Children of America
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sucker Free City
Movie · Original Music Composer
She Hate Me
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor, Musician
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Movie · Original Music Composer
25th Hour
Movie · Original Music Composer
Barbershop
Movie · Original Music Composer
People I Know
Movie · Original Music Composer
Jim Brown: All-American
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dark Blue
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Salton Sea
Movie · Musician
Original Sin
Movie · Original Music Composer
Glitter
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bojangles
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Caveman's Valentine
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Girl Thing
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
Love & Basketball
Movie · Original Music Composer
Next Friday
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bamboozled
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Truth About Jane
Movie · Original Music Composer
Navigating the Heart
Movie · Original Music Composer
Summer of Sam
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Free of Eden
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Color of Courage
Movie · Original Music Composer
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Saintly Switch
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Tempest
Movie · Original Music Composer
Gia
Movie · Original Music Composer
Eve's Bayou
Movie · Original Music Composer
'Til There Was You
Movie · Original Music Composer
4 Little Girls
Movie · Original Music Composer
Get on the Bus
Movie · Original Music Composer
Clockers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Trial by Jury
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sugar Hill
Movie · Original Music Composer
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Inkwell
Movie · Original Music Composer
Crooklyn
Movie · Original Music Composer
Malcolm X
Movie · Original Music Composer
Jungle Fever
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mo' Better Blues
Movie · Musician
School Daze
Movie · Musician