Personal Info
Terence Blanchard
Sound
Biography
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 deca…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
as Self - Host
Guilty until Proven Guilty
Jazz at the White House
as Self
Just Wright
as Jazz Musician
The Princess and the Frog
as Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
Lights, Action, Music
as Self
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
as Self
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
as Trumpet
Chick Corea & Friends: Live - Remembering Bud Powell
Malcolm X
as Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet
