
Terence Blanchard
Known for: Sound
Born: March 13, 1962
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 dropp…
Known for

Guilty until Proven Guilty
2018

Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
2021

Jazz at the White House
2016

Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
2005
Chick Corea & Friends: Live - Remembering Bud Powell
2000

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005

Lights, Action, Music
2007

Treme
2010

The Oscars
1953

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006

The Princess and the Frog
2009

Just Wright
2010

Malcolm X
1992