Terence Blanchard
Sound
Born 1962-03-13
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
90 credits
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
- 2021 Best Original Score Nominated Da 5 Bloods
- 2019 Best Original Score Nominated BlacKkKlansman
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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.
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Filmography
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Other credits
52 credits
Perry Mason
Treme
The Woman King
Inside Man
Original Sin
Swagger
BlacKkKlansman
Malcolm X
Gia
Shots Fired
Red Tails
25th Hour
They Call Me Magic
Da 5 Bloods
Children of Blood and Bone
Barbershop
Dark Blue
Cadillac Records
Father of the Bride
Eve's Bayou
Jungle Fever
Harriet
Next Friday
Clockers
She Hate Me
Sugar Hill
Bamboozled
Summer of Sam
One Night in Miami...
People I Know
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Bunraku
Waist Deep
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Crooklyn
A Girl Thing
The Comedian
Glitter
Lethal Seduction
Bruised
Get on the Bus
Love & Basketball
Black or White
Chi-Raq
Trial by Jury
Miracle at St. Anna
The Caveman's Valentine
Talk to Me
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
4 Little Girls
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Acting
16 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Oscars
The Princess and the Frog
BlacKkKlansman
Malcolm X
Da 5 Bloods
Just Wright
Harriet
The Salton Sea
She Hate Me
Summer of Sam
School Daze
One Night in Miami...
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
A Jazzman's Blues
Mo' Better Blues
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