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Terence Blanchard
Composer, Actor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn March 13, 1962 (63 years)
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.
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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.
Terence Blanchard Filmography
| 2025 | Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2023 | Terence Blanchard in Dallas · as Composer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | A Jazzman's Blues · as Music Producer |
| 2022 | The Woman King · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | Father of the Bride · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | They Call Me Magic (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Swagger (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2021 | NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½ (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Mike Tyson: The Knockout (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2020 | Bruised · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | Perry Mason (2020) (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | On the Record · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | Guilty Until Proven Guilty · as Composer |
| 2017 | Genius (2017) (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2017 | Shots Fired (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | The Comedian · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | Black or White · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Gun Hill · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | Betty and Coretta · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Abducted: The Carlina White Story · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Red Tails · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | The Key Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | Bunraku · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Cadillac Records · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Miracle at St. Anna · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Talk to Me · as Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? · as Composer |
| 2006 | When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (TV Series) |
| 2006 | Waist Deep · as Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | Inside Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | All the Invisible Children · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Heartless · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Their Eyes Were Watching God · as Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | Sucker Free City · as Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | She Hate Me · as Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | 25th Hour · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Dark Blue · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Barbershop · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | People I Know · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Jim Brown: All American · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Glitter · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | The Caveman's Valentine · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Original Sin · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Bojangles · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | A Girl Thing · as Composer |
| 2000 | Bamboozled · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | The Truth About Jane · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | Love & Basketball · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | Next Friday · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1999 | Summer of Sam · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | |
| 1998 | Free of Eden · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | The Tempest · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | The Color of Courage · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Gia · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Eve's Bayou · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | 'Til There Was You · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Get on the Bus · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Clockers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Trial by Jury · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Crooklyn · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | The Inkwell · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Sugar Hill · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Malcolm X · as Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | Jungle Fever · as Original Music Composer |
| 1977 | The Metropolitan Opera Presents (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2018 | |
| 2010 | Just Wright · as Jazz Musician |
| 2010 | Treme (TV Series) |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog · as Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice) |
| 2009 | Icons Among Us · as Cast |
| 2005 | |
| 2000 | |
| 1992 | Malcolm X · as Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet |
| 1985 | Music in Monk Time · as Performer |
| 2023 | Terence Blanchard in Dallas · as Self |
| 2023 | Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity (TV Series) · as Self - Trumpeter & Composer |
| 2022 | One Perfect Shot (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | The Oscars · as Self - Nominee |
| 2021 | Soul of a Nation (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | Up from the Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music · as Self - Host |
| 2019 | The Oscars · as Self - Nominee |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors · as Self - Performer |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | America's Blues · as Self |
| 2015 | International Jazz Day · as Self |
| 2014 | Jazz and the Philharmonic · as Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self - Guest Musician |
| 2010 | If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | The 51st Annual Grammy Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 2007 | Lights! Action! Music! · as Self |
| 2006 | When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | American Idol (TV Series) · as Self - Performer |
| 2001 | A Girl Thing · as Terence Blanchard |
| 1993 | 25th NAACP Image Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes (TV Series) · as Self (segment: Yannick Nézet-Séguin) |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | Up from the Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | One Night in Miami... · as Orchestrator |
| 2019 | Harriet · as Conductor |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman · as Orchestrator |
| 2002 | The Salton Sea · as Musician |
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues · as Musician |
| 1988 | School Daze · as Musician |