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Terence Blanchard
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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 ha…
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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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2027
Children of Blood and Bone
Movie Original Music Composer
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2026
By Any Means
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
The Metropolitan Opera: Champion
Movie Music
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2022
The Woman King
Movie Original Music Composer
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2022
A Jazzman's Blues
Movie Music Producer
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2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Movie Music
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2022
Father of the Bride
Movie Original Music Composer
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2022
They Call Me Magic
TV show Original Music Composer
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2021
Bruised
Movie Original Music Composer
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2021
Swagger
TV show Original Music Composer
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2021
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Movie Original Music Composer
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2021
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
TV show Original Music Composer
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2021
Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
Movie Self - Host
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2020
One Night in Miami...
Movie Orchestrator
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2020
Perry Mason
TV show Original Music Composer
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2020
Da 5 Bloods
Movie Original Music Composer
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2020
On the Record
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
Harriet
Movie Conductor
- 2018
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2018
BlacKkKlansman
Movie Orchestrator
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2017
Shots Fired
TV show Original Music Composer
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2016
The Comedian
Movie Original Music Composer
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2016
Jazz at the White House
Movie Self
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2015
Chi-Raq
Movie Music
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
Black or White
Movie Original Music Composer
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2014
Gun Hill
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
Betty and Coretta
Movie Original Music Composer
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2012
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
Movie Original Music Composer
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2012
Red Tails
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
The Key Man
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
Bunraku
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
TV show Original Music Composer
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2010
Just Wright
Movie Jazz Musician
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2010
Treme
TV show
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2009
The Princess and the Frog
Movie Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
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2008
Cadillac Records
Movie Original Music Composer
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2008
Miracle at St. Anna
Movie Original Music Composer
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2007
Lights, Action, Music
Movie Self
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2007
Talk to Me
Movie Original Music Composer
