Terence Blanchard
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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.
Known for
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movieChildren of Blood and Bone
2027
Original Music Composer
movieThe Woman King
2022
Original Music Composer
movieA Jazzman's Blues
2022
Music Producer, Music Arranger
movieFather of the Bride
2022
Original Music Composer
tvThey Call Me Magic
2022
Original Music Composer
movieBruised
2021
Original Music Composer
tvSwagger
2021
Original Music Composer
movieBlanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
2021
Original Music Composer
tvNYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
2021
Original Music Composer
movieOne Night in Miami...
2020
Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
tvPerry Mason
2020
Original Music Composer
movieDa 5 Bloods
2020
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
movieOn the Record
2020
Original Music Composer
movieHarriet
2019
Conductor, Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
movieBlacKkKlansman
2018
Orchestrator, Conductor, Original Music Composer
tvShots Fired
2017
Original Music Composer
movieThe Comedian
2016
Original Music Composer
movieChi-Raq
2015
Music, Original Music Composer
movieBlack or White
2015
Original Music Composer
movieGun Hill
2014
Original Music Composer
movieBetty and Coretta
2013
Original Music Composer
movieAbducted: The Carlina White Story
2012
Original Music Composer
movieRed Tails
2012
Original Music Composer
movieThe Key Man
2011
Original Music Composer
movieBunraku
2010
Original Music Composer
tvIf God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010
Original Music Composer
movieCadillac Records
2008
Original Music Composer
movieMiracle at St. Anna
2008
Original Music Composer
movieTalk to Me
2007
Original Music Composer
movieWaist Deep
2006
Original Music Composer
movieInside Man
2006
Original Music Composer
movieAll the Invisible Children
2006
Original Music Composer
movieJesus Children of America
2005
Original Music Composer
movieLethal Seduction
2005
Original Music Composer
movieTheir Eyes Were Watching God
2005
Original Music Composer
movieSucker Free City
2004
Original Music Composer
movieShe Hate Me
2004
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor, Musician
movieRedemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
2004
Original Music Composer
movie25th Hour
2002
Original Music Composer
movieDark Blue
2002
Original Music Composer
moviePeople I Know
2002
Original Music Composer
movieBarbershop
2002
Original Music Composer
movieJim Brown: All-American
2002
Original Music Composer
movieThe Salton Sea
2002
Musician
movieGlitter
2001
Original Music Composer
movieOriginal Sin
2001
Original Music Composer
movieBojangles
2001
Original Music Composer
movieThe Caveman's Valentine
2001
Original Music Composer
tvA Girl Thing
2001
Original Music Composer
movieBamboozled
2000
Original Music Composer
movieThe Truth About Jane
2000
Original Music Composer
movieLove & Basketball
2000
Original Music Composer
movieNext Friday
2000
Original Music Composer
movieSummer of Sam
1999
Original Music Composer, Conductor
movieHaving Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
Original Music Composer
movieFree of Eden
1999
Original Music Composer
movieThe Color of Courage
1999
Original Music Composer
movieA Saintly Switch
1999
Original Music Composer
movieThe Tempest
1998
Original Music Composer
movieGia
1998
Original Music Composer
movieEve's Bayou
1997
Original Music Composer
movie4 Little Girls
1997
Original Music Composer
movie'Til There Was You
1997
Original Music Composer
movieGet on the Bus
1996
Original Music Composer
movieClockers
1995
Original Music Composer
movieTrial by Jury
1994
Original Music Composer
movieCrooklyn
1994
Original Music Composer
movieThe Inkwell
1994
Original Music Composer
movieAssault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
Original Music Composer
movieSugar Hill
1994
Original Music Composer
movieMalcolm X
1992
Original Music Composer
movieJungle Fever
1991
Original Music Composer
movieMo' Better Blues
1990
Musician
movieSchool Daze
1988
Musician
Acting14
movieJust Wright
2010
Jazz Musician
movieThe Princess and the Frog
2009
Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
movieMalcolm X
1992
Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
Crew1
movieNavigating the Heart
2000
Compositors