1. Terence Oliver Blanchard was born on March 13,1962 and is an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
32 Facts About Terence Blanchard
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Terence Blanchard has written two operas and more than 80 film and television scores.
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Terence Blanchard started his career in 1980 playing in the Lionel Hampton Orchestra while studying jazz at Rutgers University.
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From 2000 to 2011, Terence Blanchard served as artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
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Terence Blanchard leads the organization's artistic programming and guides its overall creative direction.
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Terence Blanchard was selected as the 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters.
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Terence Blanchard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the only child of Wilhelmina and Joseph Oliver Terence Blanchard.
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Terence Blanchard's father was a manager at an insurance company and an amateur opera singer.
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Terence Blanchard began playing piano at the age of five, and then at age eight, he switched to the trumpet after hearing Alvin Alcorn perform at his school.
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Terence Blanchard played trumpet in summer music camps alongside his childhood friends, Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis.
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From 1980 to 1982, Terence Blanchard studied under jazz saxophonist Paul Jeffrey and trumpeter Bill Fielder at Rutgers University.
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In 1989, Terence Blanchard stepped away from performance to correct his embouchure, and then a year later launched his solo career.
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Terence Blanchard has composed for other directors, including Gina Prince-Bythewood, Regina King, Taylor Hackford, Ron Shelton, and Kasi Lemmons.
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Terence Blanchard recorded several award-winning albums for Columbia Records, including Simply Stated, The Malcolm X Jazz Suite, In My Solitude: The Billie Holiday Songbook, Romantic Defiance, and The Heart Speaks featuring Ivan Lins, which was nominated for a Best Latin Jazz Performance Grammy Award.
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In 2001, Terence Blanchard released his third and final album for Sony Classical entitled, Let's Get Lost.
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In 2003, Terence Blanchard signed with Blue Note Records and released Bounce produced by Michael Cuscuna.
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In between the two Blue Note recordings, Terence Blanchard was featured on McCoy Tyner's Illuminations with Gary Bartz, Christian McBride and Lewis Nash.
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Terence Blanchard was a judge for the fifth annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.
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In Disney's 2009 film The Princess and the Frog, Terence Blanchard performed all of the trumpet parts for the alligator character Louis.
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Terence Blanchard voiced the role of Earl the bandleader in the riverboat band.
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Fifteen years later, Terence Blanchard was invited to produce music for the theme park attraction Tiana's Bayou Adventure, which is inspired by The Princess and the Frog.
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Terence Blanchard participates in master classes and community outreach activities associated with the program.
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In December 2007, the Terence Blanchard Quintet performed the movie music of Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard with an orchestra and singers Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling, and Raul Midon at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
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On February 10,2008, Terence Blanchard won his first Grammy Award as a bandleader for A Tale of God's Will in the category of Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.
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Terence Blanchard served as the composer of the original score, marking the first time he has worked with executive producer George Lucas.
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Terence Blanchard composed incidental music for the 2012 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Terence Blanchard released Magnetic May 28,2013, on Blue Note Records.
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Cuepoint, on the web publishing site, Medium, published Terence Blanchard's essay, "Using Music to Underscore Three Words: I Can't Breathe" which details Terence Blanchard's revulsion by the death of Eric Garner and how the subsequent "I Can't Breathe" campaign inspired the series of songs the E-Collective created for the album.
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On November 9,2019, Terence Blanchard performed alongside Lady Gaga as a special guest during her Jazz and Piano show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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On June 15,2013, after a workshop with Opera Fusion: New Works, Terence Blanchard premiered his first opera, Champion, at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
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Terence Blanchard is the first Black composer to have an opera performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Terence Blanchard has received nominations for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.