Terence Blanchard - wikipedia Terence Blanchard Terence Blanchard Blanchard performing in July 2008 Background information Birth name Terence Oliver Blanchard ( 1962 - 03 - 13 ) March 13, 1962 ( age 55 ) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Genres Jazz Occupation ( s ) Musician, composer, arranger Instruments Trumpet Years active 1980 -- present Labels Blue Note, Sony Classical, Columbia Associated acts Art Blakey, Donald Harrison, Branford Marsalis, Bill Lee Website www.terenceblanchard.com Terence Oliver Blanchard ( born March 13, 1962 ) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and music educator. Blanchard started his career in 1980 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed on more than fifty. Since 2000, Blanchard has 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. In the fall of 2015 he was named a visiting scholar in jazz composition at Berklee College of Music. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Print biography 4 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz 5 Other work 6 Recognition 6.1 Grammy Awards 6.2 Awards 7 Discography 7.1 As sideman 8 Filmography 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links Early life Blanchard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the only child to parents Wilhelmina and Joseph Oliver Blanchard. His father was a manager at an insurance company and a part - time opera singer. Blanchard began playing piano at the age of five, then the trumpet at age eight after hearing Alvin Alcorn. He played trumpet with his childhood friend Wynton Marsalis in summer music camps but showed no proficiency on the instrument. In high school, he studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts under Roger Dickerson and Ellis Marsalis Jr. From 1980 to 1982, he studied under jazz saxophonist Paul Jeffrey and trumpeter Bill Fielder at Rutgers University. Career The Jazz Messengers of 1985, from left : Jean Toussaint, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, and Lonnie Plaxico While studying jazz, Blanchard began touring with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. In 1982, Wynton Marsalis recommended Blanchard as his replacement in Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers. Blanchard was the band 's music director until 1986. He played alongside Blakey, Donald Harrison, and Mulgrew Miller, recording five albums from 1984 to 1988. He left the Jazz Messengers in 1990 to pursue a solo career. In the 1990s, after an embouchure change, Blanchard recorded his self - titled debut for Columbia Records which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Jazz chart. After performing on soundtracks for Spike Lee movies, including Do the Right Thing and Mo ' Better Blues, Lee wanted Blanchard to compose the scores for his films beginning with Jungle Fever ( 1991 ). Blanchard has written the score for every Spike Lee film since, including Malcolm X, Clockers, Summer of Sam, 25th Hour, and Inside Man. In 2006, he composed the score for Spike Lee 's four - hour Hurricane Katrina documentary for HBO entitled When the Levees Broke : A Requiem in Four Acts. Blanchard appeared in front of the camera with his mother to share their journey back to find her home destroyed. He also created an album titled A Tale of God 's Will ( A Requiem for Katrina ), in which he recreated some pieces used in the documentary, as well as creating more pieces, to provide audiences with the opportunity to sympathize with those who had been affected by Hurricane Katrina. Blanchard has also composed for other directors, including Leon Ichaso, Ron Shelton, and Kasi Lemmons. Entertainment Weekly proclaimed Blanchard `` central to a general resurgence of jazz composition for film. '' In a 1994 interview for Down Beat, Blanchard said, `` Writing for film is fun, but nothing can beat being a jazz musician, playing a club, playing a concert ''. He has recorded several award - winning albums for Columbia, Sony Classical and Blue Note Records, including In My Solitude : The Billie Holiday Songbook ( 1994 ), Romantic Defiance ( 1995 ), The Heart Speaks ( 1996 ), Wandering Moon ( 2000 ), Let 's Get Lost ( 2001 ) and Flow ( 2005 ), which was produced by pianist Herbie Hancock and received two Grammy Award nominations. Terence Blanchard 's 2001 album Let 's Get Lost featured arrangements of classic songs written by Jimmy McHugh and performed by his quintet with vocalists Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves, and Cassandra Wilson. In 2005, Blanchard was part of the ensemble that won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for his participation on McCoy Tyner 's Illuminations, an award he shared with Tyner, Gary Bartz, Christian McBride and Lewis Nash. Blanchard was a judge for the 5th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists ' careers. In 2009 in the Disney movie, The Princess and the Frog, Blanchard played all of the alligator Louis ' trumpet parts. He also voiced the role of Earl the bandleader in the riverboat band. Print biography In December 2002, Scarecrow Press published Contemporary Cat : Terence Blanchard with Special Guests, an authorized biography of Blanchard written by Anthony Magro. Thelonious Monk Institute of jazz In the fall of 2000, Terence Blanchard was named artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz at the University of California Los Angeles. Herbie Hancock serves as chairman ; Wayne Shorter, Clark Terry and Jimmy Heath sit on the board of trustees. The conservatory offers an intensive, tuition - free, two - year master 's program to a limited number of students ( only up to eight per every two years ). In his role as artistic director, Blanchard works with the students in the areas of artistic development, arranging, composition, and career counseling. He also participates in master classes and community outreach activities associated with the program. `` Out of my desire to give something back to the jazz community, I wanted to get involved. In fact, I 've always said that if I was n't a musician, that I would like to be a teacher. So I was glad to get involved and to be a part of this unique program that fosters such an open and accessible environment. '' In April 2007, the Institute announced its `` Commitment to New Orleans '' initiative which includes the relocation of the program to the campus of Loyola University New Orleans from Los Angeles. Blanchard had passionately lobbied the Institute to relocate saying, `` After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was shaken and its musical roots were threatened. I grew up in this city and learned about jazz here at Loyola with other young jazz musicians like Wynton and Branford Marsalis and I know that the Institute will have a great impact on jazz and in our communities. We are going to work hard to help jazz and New Orleans flourish once again. '' Other work Composer Terence Blanchard and his wife, Robin Burgess, at the world premiere of his opera Champion on 15 June 2013. In 2007, the Monterey Jazz Festival named Blanchard Artist - In - Residence, citing him as `` one his generation 's most artistically mature and innovative artists and a committed supporter of jazz education. '' The Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Band featuring Blanchard on trumpet will make a 54 - date, 10 - week tour of the United States from January 8, 2008 to March 16, 2008. Rounding out the band will be saxophonist James Moody, pianist Benny Green, bassist Derrick Hodge and drummer Kendrick Scott. The special ensemble will also feature jazz singer Nnenna Freelon. 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 Midón at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In November 2008 he was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3. On February 10, 2008, Blanchard won his first Grammy Award as a bandleader for A Tale of God 's Will ( A Requiem for Katrina ) in the category of Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. His two other Grammy Awards were as a sideman for Art Blakey ( 1984 ) and McCoy Tyner ( 2004 ). Blanchard composed original music for Stephen Adly Guirgis 's Broadway play The Motherfucker With the Hat, which premiered at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on April 11, 2011. The show is described as `` a high - octane verbal cage match about love, fidelity and misplaced haberdashery. '' On January 20, 2012, the film Red Tails was released nationwide in the United States. Blanchard served as the composer of the original score, marking the first time he has worked with executive producer George Lucas. He composed incidental music for the 2012 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. He released Magnetic May 28, 2013 on Blue Note Records. On June 15, 2013, after a workshop with Opera Fusion : New Works, Blanchard premiered his first opera, Champion, at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. It is about the life of prize fighting boxer Emile Griffith from St. Thomas, with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize - winning Michael Cristofer. It stars Denyce Graves, Aubrey Allicock, Robert Orth, and Arthur Woodley. Blanchard 's album, Breathless, with his new band, The E-Collective, was released by Blue Note Records on May 26, 2015. Featuring Maroon 5 's PJ Morton on three cuts, and JRei Oliver, Terence 's son, on spoken word, the core band consists of Fabian Almazan on keyboards, Charles Altura on guitar, Donald Ramsey on bass, and Oscar Seaton on drums. Cuepoint, on the web publishing site, Medium, published Blanchard 's essay, `` Using Music to Underscore Three Words : I Ca n't Breathe '' which details Blanchard 's revulsion by the death of Eric Garner and how the subsequent `` I Ca n't Breathe '' campaign inspired the series of songs the E-Collective created for the album. Recognition Grammy Awards Career Wins : 5 Career Nominations : 13 Terence Blanchard Grammy History Year Category Title Genre Label Result Notes 1984 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance -- Group New York Scene Jazz Concord Winner with the Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Best Jazz Instrumental Performance -- Group Mo ' Better Blues ( Soundtrack ) Jazz CBS Nominated with the Branford Marsalis Quartet. Best Latin Jazz Album The Heart Speaks Latin Jazz Columbia Nominated features the compositions of Ivan Lins. 2000 Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Wandering Moon Jazz Sony Classical Nominated for the track `` I Thought About You '' 2001 Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Let 's Get Lost Jazz Sony Classical Nominated for the track `` Lost In a Fog '' Best Jazz Instrumental Album McCoy Tyner 's Illuminations Jazz Telarc Winner featured as the band 's trumpeter and composer of one song. 2005 Best Jazz Instrumental Album Flow Jazz Blue Note Nominated Herbie Hancock, album producer. 2006 Best Long Form Music Video Flow : Living in the Stream of Music ( DVD ) Jazz Blue Note Nominated Jim Gabour, video director / producer ; Robin Burgess video producer. 2007 Best Jazz Instrumental Solo A Tale of God 's Will ( A Requiem for Katrina ) Jazz Blue Note Nominated for the track `` Levees '' 2007 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album A Tale of God 's Will ( A Requiem for Katrina ) Jazz Blue Note Winner features Blanchard 's quintet with a 40 - piece string orchestra. 2008 Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival Jazz Blue Note Winner for the track `` Be-Bop '' 2009 Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Watts Jazz Dark Key Music Winner for the track `` Dancin ' 4 Chicken '' 2013 Best Improvised Jazz Solo `` Do n't Run '' Jazz Blue Note Nominated Lost to Wayne Shorter Awards Selected film - related awards for Terence Blanchard. Year Award Category Score Result 1994 Soul Train Music Award Best Jazz Album The Malcolm X Jazz Suite Nominated 1995 Emmy Award Best Original Score for a TV Mini-Series The Promised Land Nominated 2003 World Soundtrack Award Soundtrack Composer of the Year `` 25th Hour '' Nominated 2003 Sierra Award Best Score `` 25th Hour '' Nominated 2003 Golden Globe Best Original Score -- Motion Picture `` 25th Hour '' Nominated 2003 Central Ohio Film Critics Association ( COFCA ) Best Score `` 25th Hour '' Winner 2005 Black Reel Best Original Score `` She Hate Me '' Nominated 2007 Black Reel Best Original Score Inside Man Nominated Discography A complete discography of Blanchard 's jazz recordings as a bandleader. Year Title Genre Label 1984 New York Second Line ( as Harrison / Blanchard ) Jazz Concord 1986 Discernment ( as Harrison / Blanchard ) Jazz Concord 1986 Nascence ( as Harrison / Blanchard ) Jazz Columbia Crystal Stair ( as Harrison / Blanchard ) Jazz Columbia Black Pearl ( as Harrison / Blanchard ) Jazz Columbia 1991 Terence Blanchard Jazz Columbia 1992 Simply Stated Jazz Columbia The Malcolm X Jazz Suite Jazz Columbia 1994 In My Solitude : The Billie Holiday Songbook Jazz Columbia 1995 Romantic Defiance Jazz Columbia The Heart Speaks Latin Jazz Columbia 1999 Jazz in Film Jazz Sony Classical 2000 Wandering Moon Jazz Sony Classical 2001 Let 's Get Lost Jazz Sony Classical 2003 Bounce Jazz Blue Note 2005 Flow Jazz Blue Note 2007 A Tale of God 's Will ( A Requiem for Katrina ) Jazz Blue Note 2009 Choices Jazz Concord 2013 Magnetic Jazz Blue Note 2015 Breathless Jazz Blue Note As sideman With Art Blakey Oh - By the Way ( Timeless, 1982 ) New York Scene ( Concord, 1984 ) Blue Night ( Timeless, 1985 ) With Joanne Brackeen Fi - Fi Goes to Heaven ( Concord Jazz, 1987 ) With Cedar Walton As Long as There 's Music ( Muse, 1990 ( 1993 ) ) Roots ( Astor Place, 1997 ) Filmography A selected filmography of Terence Blanchard scores. ( * denotes score available on CD ) 1991 Jungle Fever 1992 Malcolm X * 1994 Sugar Hill * 1994 Trial By Jury 1994 The Inkwell 1994 Crooklyn 1995 Clockers * 1996 Get on the Bus 1997 Eve 's Bayou * 1997 ' Til There Was You 1997 4 Little Girls 1998 Gia 1999 Summer of Sam 2000 Love & Basketball 2000 Next Friday 2000 Bamboozled 2001 The Caveman 's Valentine * 2001 Original Sin * 2001 Glitter 2002 Barbershop 2002 Dark Blue 2002 25th Hour * 2002 People I Know * 2003 Unchained Memories * 2004 She Hate Me * 2006 Inside Man * 2006 When the Levees Broke : A Requiem in Four Acts 2007 Talk to Me 2008 Miracle at St. Anna * 2008 Cadillac Records 2010 Bunraku 2012 Red Tails 2014 Black or White 2015 Chi - Raq 2016 The Comedian References Jump up ^ `` Terence Blanchard Biography ( 1962 - ) ''. Filmreference.com. Retrieved 2012 - 01 - 16. ^ Jump up to : `` Magro, Anthony. `` Contemporary Cat : Terence Blanchard with Special Guests '', Scarecrow Press ( 2002 ) '' Jump up ^ Maloney, Ann. `` The pain of Katrina will spill forth when trumpeter Terence Blanchard performs with the LPO on Saturday ''. The Times - Picayune. Retrieved 15 October 2014. Jump up ^ Terence Blanchard, ENotes.com Jump up ^ Independent Music Awards -- Past Judges Jump up ^ `` The Princess and the Frog : Fun Facts ! -- Features ''. Tribute.ca. Retrieved 2012 - 01 - 16. Jump up ^ Jazz Police -- The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Moves to New Orleans Jump up ^ Monterey Jazz Festival Presents Terence Blanchard Quintet Live in Concert Jump up ^ Kennedy Center : The Movie Music of Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard Jump up ^ BBC Radio 3 Jump up ^ `` The Motherf * * ker with the Hat '', ibdb.com, accessed 12 April 2011. Jump up ^ Ben Brantley ( 11 April 2011 ), A Love Not at a Loss for Words, New York Times, retrieved 2011 - 04 - 12 Jump up ^ Marilyn Stasio ( 11 April 2011 ), The Motherfucker With the Hat, Variety, retrieved 2011 - 04 - 12 Jump up ^ News Staff ( December 9, 2010 ). `` The Motherf * * ker With the Hat, Starring Chris Rock, Moves Forward First Preview ''. Broadway.com. Retrieved 12 April 2011. Jump up ^ Blanchard, Terence. `` Using Three Words to Underscore Three Words : I Ca n't Breathe ''. Medium. Cuepoint. Retrieved 23 September 2015. Jump up ^ Grammy Awards list Jump up ^ List of awards for Terence Blanchard Jump up ^ Jet -- Google Boeken. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012 - 01 - 16. Jump up ^ `` IMDB : Terence Blanchard ''. Further reading Magro, Anthony. Contemporary Cat : Terence Blanchard with Special Guests, Scarecrow Press ( 2002 ) -- ISBN 0 - 8108 - 4323 - 4 Yanow, Scott. Trumpet Kings : The Players Who Shaped the Sound of Jazz Trumpet, Backbeat Books ( 2002 ) -- ISBN 0 - 87930 - 608 - 4 External links Biography portal Terence Blanchard 's official website Terence Blanchard interview by Pete Lewis, ' Blues & Soul ' November 2009 Magro, Anthony. `` Contemporary Cat : Terence Blanchard with Special Guests '', Scarecrow Press ( 2002 ) Billboard Chart History for Terence Blanchard Interview with Terence Blanchard Terrence Blanchard Terrence Blanchard MusiCodex Page Terence Blanchard Interview NAMM Oral History Library ( 2015 ) The Jazz Messengers Art Blakey Dale Barlow Mickey Bass Terence Blanchard Joanne Brackeen Cameron Brown Donald Brown Bobby Broom Donald Byrd George Cables Chick Corea Steve Davis Spanky DeBrest Sam Dockery Kenny Dorham Essiet Essiet Robin Eubanks Charles Fambrough Curtis Fuller Carlos Garnett John Gilmore Benny Golson Benny Green Johnny Griffin Bill Hardman Donald Harrison Philip Harper John Hicks Freddie Hubbard Dennis Irwin Javon Jackson Carter Jefferson Geoffrey Keezer Frank Lacy Brian Lynch Branford Marsalis Wynton Marsalis Jackie McLean Jymie Merritt Mulgrew Miller Hank Mobley Lee Morgan Billy Pierce Lonnie Plaxico Valery Ponomarev Wallace Roney Gregory Charles Royal David Schnitter Woody Shaw Clarence Seay Wayne Shorter Horace Silver Victor Sproles Bobby Timmons Jean Toussaint McCoy Tyner Cedar Walton Peter Washington Doug Watkins Bobby Watson James Williams Reggie Workman Studio albums The Jazz Messengers ( 1956 ) Hard Bop ( 1957 ) Ritual ( 1957 ) Tough ! ( 1966 ) Selections from Lerner and Loewe 's... ( 1957 ) A Night in Tunisia ( 1957 ) Cu - Bop ( 1957 ) Hard Drive ( 1957 ) Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk ( 1958 ) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers ( 1958 ) The Big Beat ( 1960 ) A Night in Tunisia ( 1960 ) Impulse ! ! ! ! ! Art Blakey ! ! ! ! ! Jazz Messengers ! ! ! ! ! ( 1961 ) Mosaic ( 1961 ) The Freedom Rider ( 1962 ) Buhaina 's Delight ( 1963 ) Caravan ( 1963 ) Free for All ( 1964 ) Kyoto ( 1964 ) Golden Boy ( 1964 ) Indestructible ( 1965 ) ' S Make It ( 1965 ) Soul Finger ( 1965 ) Like Someone in Love ( 1966 ) The Witch Doctor ( 1967 ) Roots & Herbs ( 1970 ) Child 's Dance ( 1972 ) Buhaina ( 1973 ) Anthenagin ( 1973 ) In Walked Sonny ( 1975 ) Backgammon ( 1976 ) Gypsy Folk Tales ( 1977 ) In My Prime Vol. 1 ( 1978 ) In My Prime Vol. 2 ( 1978 ) Reflections in Blue ( 1979 ) Night in Tunisia : Digital Recording ( 1979 ) Africaine ( 1981 ) Album of the Year ( 1981 ) Oh - By the Way ( 1984 ) Blue Night ( 1985 ) Feeling Good ( 1986 ) Not Yet ( 1988 ) I Get a Kick Out of Bu ( 1988 ) Chippin ' In ( 1990 ) One for All ( 1990 ) Live albums At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 ( 1955 ) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 ( 1955 ) A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers ( 1957 ) 1958 -- Paris Olympia ( 1959 ) At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 & 2 ( 1959 ) Art Blakey et les Jazz Messengers au Théâtre des Champs - Élysées ( 1960 ) Paris Jam Session ( 1960 ) Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 and 2 ( 1960 ) Three Blind Mice ( 1962 ) Ugetsu ( 1963 ) Buttercorn Lady ( 1966 ) Jazz Messengers ' 70 ( 1970 ) In This Korner ( 1978 ) Live at Montreux and Northsea ( 1980 ) One by One ( 1981 ) Art Blakey in Sweden ( 1981 ) Straight Ahead ( 1981 ) Keystone 3 ( 1982 ) Live at Kimball 's ( 1985 ) The Art of Jazz : Live in Leverkusen ( 1989 ) Compilation albums Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers ( 1955 ) The Cool Voice of Rita Reys ( 1956 ) Drum Suite ( 1957 ) Pisces ( 1979 ) Originally ( 1982 ) Soundtrack albums Des Femmes Disparaissent ( 1959 ) Les liaisons dangereuses 1960 ( 1960 ) Related Discography VIAF : 76506019 LCCN : n84163043 ISNI : 0000 0001 2140 386X GND : 133576132 SUDOC : 059399732 BNF : cb139490542 ( data ) MusicBrainz : f21be110 - 0169 - 45f5 - b5e7 - c64a71d218e5 BNE : XX1306996 IATH : w68k85jf Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terence_Blanchard&oldid=812949964 '' Categories : 1962 births African - American jazz composers African - American jazz musicians African - American opera composers American film score composers American jazz bandleaders American jazz trumpeters Blue Note Records artists Columbia Records artists Grammy Award winners Hard bop trumpeters Jazz arrangers Jazz Messengers Jazz musicians from New Orleans Living people Mainstream jazz trumpeters Male film score composers Male jazz composers Male jazz musicians Male opera composers Modal jazz trumpeters Post-bop arrangers Post-bop composers Post-bop trumpeters Hidden categories : Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español فارسی Français 한국어 Italiano 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 30 November 2017, at 21 : 15. 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Question: who played trumpet in princess and the frog
Answer: Terence Oliver Blanchard