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Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter, pianist and composer. A jazz musician, he has also composed film scores and operas. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed on more than fifty.
Sobrino de una pianista clásica que fue alumna de Ellis Marsalis, Terence Blanchard comenzó a estudiar piano con solo 5 años, instrumento que compaginaría con la trompeta desde los 8 hasta los 18. Estudió teoría del jazz con el propio Ellis Marsalis, y comenzó a conocer el trabajo de los trompetistas de jazz a partir de los 14.
Perhaps Blanchard’s most challenging and fulfilling endeavor has been his entry into the world of opera. His second “opera in jazz,” Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the best-selling 2014 memoir of The New York Times journalist Charles M. Blow, with the libretto written by Kasi Lemmons, Fire Shut Up in My Bones explores Blow’s struggles to transcend and overcome a cycle of violence.
8 de oct. de 2014 · Terence Blanchard was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on October 8, 2014. Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Oliver Blanchard was born on March 13, 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Wilhelmina and Joseph Oliver Blanchard. Blanchard began playing piano at the age of five, but switched to trumpet three years later.
Blanchard received an Oscar nomination for his original score for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. He was also BAFTA nominated for his original music for the film. He won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for writing “Blut Und Boden (Blood and Soil)” a track from BlacKkKlansman .
6 de ene. de 2022 · On September 27, 2021, Blanchard became the first Black composer to premiere an original opera at The Metropolitan Opera.
Recognized as a legendary composer, arranger, and bandleader, Blanchard's work as a trumpeter is perhaps best described by Vanity Fair: “He plays the most coolly expressive trumpet in jazz, transmuting the instrument’s repertoire of smears, growls, peeps and blasts into an astonishingly fluid language both luxurious and controlled.''
