- Known For
- Sound
- Born
- March 13, 1962
- Place of Birth
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Terence Blanchard
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 directo…
Filmography
movieChildren of Blood and Bone
2027 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Metropolitan Opera: Champion
2023 · Music
movieThe Woman King
2022 · Original Music Composer
movieA Jazzman's Blues
2022 · Music Producer, Music Arranger
movieLouis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022 · Music
movieFather of the Bride
2022 · Original Music Composer
tvThey Call Me Magic
2022 · Original Music Composer
movieBruised
2021 · Original Music Composer
tvSwagger
2021 · Original Music Composer
movieBlanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
2021 · Original Music Composer
tvNYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
2021 · Original Music Composer
movieUp From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
2021 · Self - Host
movieOne Night in Miami...
2020 · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
tvPerry Mason
2020 · Original Music Composer
movieDa 5 Bloods
2020 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
movieOn the Record
2020 · Original Music Composer
movieHarriet
2019 · Conductor, Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
movieGuilty until Proven Guilty
2018
movieBlacKkKlansman
2018 · Orchestrator, Conductor, Original Music Composer
tvShots Fired
2017 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Comedian
2016 · Original Music Composer
movieJazz at the White House
2016 · Self
movieChi-Raq
2015 · Music, Original Music Composer
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
movieBlack or White
2015 · Original Music Composer
movieGun Hill
2014 · Original Music Composer
movieBetty and Coretta
2013 · Original Music Composer
movieAbducted: The Carlina White Story
2012 · Original Music Composer
movieRed Tails
2012 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Key Man
2011 · Original Music Composer
movieBunraku
2010 · Original Music Composer
tvIf God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010 · Original Music Composer
movieJust Wright
2010 · Jazz Musician
tvTreme
2010
movieThe Princess and the Frog
2009 · Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
movieCadillac Records
2008 · Original Music Composer
movieMiracle at St. Anna
2008 · Original Music Composer
movieLights, Action, Music
2007 · Self
movieTalk to Me
2007 · Original Music Composer
tvWhen the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006 · Self, Music
movieWaist Deep
2006 · Original Music Composer
movieInside Man
2006 · Original Music Composer
movieAll the Invisible Children
2006 · Original Music Composer
movieJesus Children of America
2005 · Original Music Composer
movieChick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
2005 · Trumpet
movieLethal Seduction
2005 · Original Music Composer
movieTheir Eyes Were Watching God
2005 · Original Music Composer
movieBy Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005 · Self
movieSucker Free City
2004 · Original Music Composer
movieShe Hate Me
2004 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor, Musician
movieRedemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
2004 · Original Music Composer
movie25th Hour
2002 · Original Music Composer
movieDark Blue
2002 · Original Music Composer
moviePeople I Know
2002 · Original Music Composer
movieBarbershop
2002 · Original Music Composer
movieJim Brown: All-American
2002 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Salton Sea
2002 · Musician
movieGlitter
2001 · Original Music Composer
movieOriginal Sin
2001 · Original Music Composer
movieBojangles
2001 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Caveman's Valentine
2001 · Original Music Composer
tvA Girl Thing
2001 · Original Music Composer
movieBamboozled
2000 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Truth About Jane
2000 · Original Music Composer
movieLove & Basketball
2000 · Original Music Composer
Chick Corea & Friends: Live - Remembering Bud Powell
movieChick Corea & Friends: Live - Remembering Bud Powell
2000
movieNavigating the Heart
2000 · Music, Compositors
movieNext Friday
2000 · Original Music Composer
movieSummer of Sam
1999 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
movieHaving Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999 · Original Music Composer
movieFree of Eden
1999 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Color of Courage
1999 · Original Music Composer
movieA Saintly Switch
1999 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Tempest
1998 · Original Music Composer
movieGia
1998 · Original Music Composer
movieEve's Bayou
1997 · Original Music Composer
movie4 Little Girls
1997 · Original Music Composer
movie'Til There Was You
1997 · Original Music Composer
movieGet on the Bus
1996 · Original Music Composer
movieClockers
1995 · Original Music Composer
movieTrial by Jury
1994 · Original Music Composer
movieCrooklyn
1994 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Inkwell
1994 · Original Music Composer
movieAssault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994 · Original Music Composer
movieSugar Hill
1994 · Original Music Composer
movieMalcolm X
1992 · Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet, Original Music Composer
movieJungle Fever
1991 · Original Music Composer
movieMo' Better Blues
1990 · Musician
movieSchool Daze
1988 · Musician
tvThe Oscars
1953 · Self