Terence Blanchard

Terence Blanchard

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.

Sound

2022

A Jazzman's Blues

Music Arranger

2022

The Woman King

Original Music Composer

2022

A Jazzman's Blues

Music Producer

2022

2022

Father of the Bride

Original Music Composer

2022

They Call Me Magic

Original Music Composer

2021

Bruised

Original Music Composer

2021

2021

NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½

Original Music Composer

2020

2020

One Night in Miami...

Original Music Composer

2020

Perry Mason

Original Music Composer

2020

Da 5 Bloods

Conductor

2020

Da 5 Bloods

Original Music Composer

2020

Da 5 Bloods

Orchestrator

2020

On the Record

Original Music Composer

2019

Harriet

Orchestrator

2019

Harriet

Conductor

2019

Harriet

Original Music Composer

2018

BlacKkKlansman

Orchestrator

2018

2018

BlacKkKlansman

Original Music Composer

2017

Shots Fired

Original Music Composer

2016

The Comedian

Original Music Composer

2015

Chi-Raq

Original Music Composer

2015

Chi-Raq

Music

2014

Black or White

Original Music Composer

2013

Betty and Coretta

Original Music Composer

2012

Abducted: The Carlina White Story

Original Music Composer

2012

Red Tails

Original Music Composer

2011

The Key Man

Original Music Composer

2010

Bunraku

Original Music Composer

2010

2008

Cadillac Records

Original Music Composer

2008

Miracle at St. Anna

Original Music Composer

2007

Talk to Me

Original Music Composer

2006

2006

Waist Deep

Original Music Composer

2006

Inside Man

Original Music Composer

2006

All the Invisible Children

Original Music Composer

2005

Jesus Children of America

Original Music Composer

2005

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Original Music Composer

2004

Sucker Free City

Original Music Composer

2004

She Hate Me

Conductor

2004

She Hate Me

Orchestrator

2004

She Hate Me

Original Music Composer

2004

She Hate Me

Musician

2004

2002

25th Hour

Original Music Composer

2002

Dark Blue

Original Music Composer

2002

People I Know

Original Music Composer

2002

Barbershop

Original Music Composer

2002

Jim Brown: All-American

Original Music Composer

2001

Glitter

Original Music Composer

2001

Original Sin

Original Music Composer

2001

Bojangles

Original Music Composer

2001

A Girl Thing

Original Music Composer

2001

A Girl Thing

Original Music Composer

2001

The Caveman's Valentine

Original Music Composer

2000

Bamboozled

Original Music Composer

2000

The Truth About Jane

Original Music Composer

2000

Love & Basketball

Original Music Composer

2000

2000

Next Friday

Original Music Composer

1999

Summer of Sam

Conductor

1999

Summer of Sam

Original Music Composer

1999

1999

The Color of Courage

Original Music Composer

1999

1998

The Tempest

Original Music Composer

1998

Gia

Original Music Composer

1997

Eve's Bayou

Original Music Composer

1997

4 Little Girls

Original Music Composer

1997

'Til There Was You

Original Music Composer

1996

Get on the Bus

Original Music Composer

1995

Clockers

Original Music Composer

1994

Trial by Jury

Original Music Composer

1994

Crooklyn

Original Music Composer

1994

The Inkwell

Original Music Composer

1994

1994

Sugar Hill

Original Music Composer

1992

Malcolm X

Original Music Composer

1991

Jungle Fever

Original Music Composer

Acting

2015

2010

Just Wright

Jazz Musician

2010

Treme

Unknown

2009

The Princess and the Frog

Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)

2006

1992

Malcolm X

Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet

1953

Crew

2000

Infos

Full Name
Terence Blanchard
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
3/13/1962
Website
http://www.terenceblanchard.com