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 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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Filmography
all 94
Movies 84
self 13
TV Shows 10
Producer 1
Voice 1

The Woman King (2022)

A Jazzman's Blues (2022)

Father of the Bride (2022)

They Call Me Magic (2022)

The Metropolitan Opera: Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021)

NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½ (2021)

One Night in Miami... (2020)

Bruised (2020)

Perry Mason (2020)

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

On the Record (2020)

Harriet (2019)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Shots Fired (2017)

The Comedian (2016)

Jazz at the White House (2016)

Chi-Raq (2015)

Black or White (2014)

Gun Hill (2014)

Betty and Coretta (2013)

Red Tails (2012)

The Key Man (2011)

Bunraku (2010)

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010)

Just Wright (2010)

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Cadillac Records (2008)

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Steep (2007)

Talk to Me (2007)

Waist Deep (2006)

Inside Man (2006)

Lethal Seduction (2005)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

Sucker Free City (2004)

She Hate Me (2004)

25th Hour (2002)

Dark Blue (2002)

People I Know (2002)

Barbershop (2002)

Glitter (2001)

Original Sin (2001)

Bojangles (2001)

A Girl Thing (2001)

The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

Bamboozled (2000)

The Truth About Jane (2000)

Love & Basketball (2000)

Navigating the Heart (2000)

Next Friday (2000)

Summer of Sam (1999)

Free of Eden (1999)

The Color of Courage (1999)

A Saintly Switch (1999)

The Tempest (1998)

Gia (1998)

Eve's Bayou (1997)

4 Little Girls (1997)

Til There Was You (1997)

Get on the Bus (1996)

Clockers (1995)

Trial by Jury (1994)

Crooklyn (1994)

The Inkwell (1994)

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (1994)

Sugar Hill (1994)

Malcolm X (1992)

Jungle Fever (1991)
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GenderMale
Birthday1962-03-13 (62 years old)
Birth PlaceNew Orleans, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
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