Terence Blanchard Terence Blanchard

Born: 13 March 1962, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Biography:
American jazz trumpeter and composer of international standing. Encouraged by his musically inclined father, Joseph Oliver, Blanchard began learning the piano at the age of five, and attended the New Orleans Centre for Creative Arts, where he honed his musical skills under the tutelage of Art Blakey, and emerged as a highly respected jazz trumpeter. He burst onto the New York jazz scene in the 1980s, along with contemporaries such as Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and quickly built a reputation as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians and bandleaders of his generation. Blanchard became involved in movies during the late 1980s, playing trumpet on soundtracks for his friend and contemporary Spike Lee. He scored his first solo movie in 1990, for Lee's "Mo' Better Blues", and has since written music for each of Lee's subsequent films, including "Jungle Fever" (1991, in collaboration with Stevie Wonder) "Malcolm X" (1992), "Crooklyn" (1994) "Clockers" (1995), "Summer of Sam" (1999), "Bamboozled" (2000), "25th Hour" (2002, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination) and “Inside Man” (2006). Other prominent works by Blanchard include "Sugar Hill" (1994), "Eve's Bayou" (1997), "Next Friday" (2000), "Love & Basketball" (2000), "Original Sin" (2001), "The Caveman's Valentine" (2001) and "Barbershop" (2002). Blanchard continues to be active in the jazz and blues scene, owning an exclusive recording contract with Sony, and having recently worked with artists such as Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson. He also works to further jazz education, having recently accepted an appointment to the University of Southern California (USC) as the Artistic Director for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

Reviews:
Miracle at St. Anna

Filmography:
Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Talk to Me (2007), Inside Man (2006), Waist Deep (2006), Who the Fuck is Jackson Pollock? (2006), When the Levees Broke (2006), All the Invisible Children (2005), Jesus Children of America (2005), Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), Drum (2004), Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (2004), She Hate Me (2004), Sucker Free City (2004), Barbershop (2002), Dark Blue (2002), Jim Brown: All American (2002), People I Know (2002), 25th Hour (2002), Bojangles (2001), The Caveman's Valentine (2001), A Girl Thing (2001), Glitter (2001), Original Sin (2001), Bamboozled (2000), Love and Basketball (2000), Navigating the Heart (2000), Next Friday (2000), The Truth About Jane (2000), The Colour of Courage (1999), Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999), A Saintly Switch (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Free of Eden (1998), Gia (1998), In Your Shoes (1998), 4 Little Girls (1997), Til There Was You (1997), Eve's Bayou (1997), Field of Honour (1996), Get on the Bus (1996), Clockers (1995), Crooklyn (1994), Trial by Jury (1994), Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (1994), The Inkwell (1994), Sugar Hill (1993), Malcolm X (1992), Jungle Fever (1991), Mo' Better Blues (1990).

Highest Grossing Films as at end of 2007 (adjusted for inflation):
Inside Man ($95.5m), Barbershop ($92.3m), Malcolm X ($82.2m), Next Friday ($75.3m), Jungle Fever ($54.6m), Love and Basketball ($36.1m), Sugar Hill ($30.9m), Summer of Sam ($26.9m), Crooklyn ($23.1m), Waist Deep ($23.0m),.

Awards:
2002 Golden Globes - Nominee, Best Original Score - 25th Hour

Links:
Official Site from Sony Classical

25th Hour The Caveman's Valentine Clockers Crooklyn Eve's Bayou Get On The Bus The Inkwell Inside Man Jungle Fever Malcolm X Miracle at St. Anna Mo' Better Blues Original Sin People I Know She Hate Me Summer of Sam When the Levees Broke


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