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.
The Princess and the Frog
as Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
Age 47 (now 64)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
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Age 44 (now 64)
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Original Music Composer
Age 59 (now 64)
Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
as Self - Host
Age 59 (now 64)
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
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Age 50 (now 64)
The Princess and the Frog
as Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
Age 47 (now 64)
All the Invisible Children
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Age 43 (now 64)
Jesus Children of America
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Age 43 (now 64)
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
as Trumpet
Age 43 (now 64)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Original Music Composer
Age 42 (now 64)
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
as Self
Age 42 (now 64)
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
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Age 41 (now 64)
Chick Corea & Friends: Live - Remembering Bud Powell
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
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Age 37 (now 64)
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Original Music Composer
Age 31 (now 64)
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
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Age 59 (now 64)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Age 53 (now 64)
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
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Age 48 (now 64) When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
as Self
Age 44 (now 64) When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
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Age 44 (now 64)
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