Terence Blanchard
Sound
Born March 13, 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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.
Filmography
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Children of Blood and Bone
The Metropolitan Opera: Champion
The Woman King
A Jazzman's Blues
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Father of the Bride
They Call Me Magic
Bruised
Swagger
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
Self - Host
One Night in Miami...
Perry Mason
Da 5 Bloods
On the Record
Harriet
Guilty until Proven Guilty
BlacKkKlansman
Shots Fired
The Comedian
Jazz at the White House
Self
Chi-Raq
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Black or White
Gun Hill
Betty and Coretta
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
Red Tails
The Key Man
Bunraku
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Just Wright
Jazz Musician
Treme
The Princess and the Frog
Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
Cadillac Records
Miracle at St. Anna
Lights, Action, Music
Self
Talk to Me
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self
Waist Deep
Inside Man
All the Invisible Children
Jesus Children of America
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
Trumpet
Lethal Seduction
Their Eyes Were Watching God
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Self
Sucker Free City
She Hate Me
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
25th Hour
Dark Blue
People I Know
Barbershop
Jim Brown: All-American
The Salton Sea
Glitter
Original Sin
Bojangles
The Caveman's Valentine
A Girl Thing
Bamboozled
The Truth About Jane
Love & Basketball
Navigating the Heart
Next Friday
Summer of Sam
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Free of Eden
The Color of Courage
A Saintly Switch
The Tempest
Gia
Eve's Bayou
4 Little Girls
'Til There Was You
Get on the Bus
Clockers
Trial by Jury
Crooklyn
The Inkwell
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Sugar Hill
Malcolm X
Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet
Jungle Fever
Mo' Better Blues
School Daze
The Oscars
Self