Born Terencee Oliver
Blanchard on March 13, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a jazz
trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and film score composer.
At an early age Terance was destine to be a musician. When he was
five he began playing the piano. At the age of eight he started
playing the trumpet after hearing Alvin Alcom play. Terance played
alongside his childhood friend Wynton Marsalis in summer music camps.
When he was in high school, he started studying at the New Orleans
Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) under Roger Dickerson and Ellis
Marsalis, Jr... Terance studied under jazz saxophonist Paul Jeffrey
and trumpeter Bill Fielder, at Rutgers University from 1980 to 1982
while touring with Lionel Hampton. Wynton Marsalis recommended
Terance to replace him in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1982.
Terance was the band’s trumpeter and musical director. The quintet
consisted of Blakey as co-leader, saxophonist Donald Harrison and
pianist Mulgrew Miller. In the 1980’s Terance became a provident
figure in the Jazz Resurgence movement. Terance went solo in 1990 and
he recorded his self-titled debut for Columbia Records. This album
reached number three on the Billboard Jazz Charts. Terance also
composes film scores. He has worked a lot with Spike Lee. His music
has been on some of Spike Lee’s classic movies, Do the Right Thing,
Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Clockers, Summer of Sam,
25th Hour and Inside Man. Spike Lee is not the only director Terance
has composed for. He has composed for Leon Ichaso, Ron Shelton and
Kasi Lemmons. Entertainment Weekly proclaimed Blanchard "central
to a general resurgence of jazz composition for film." Blanchard
was quoted as saying in a 1994 interview, "Writing for film is
fun, but nothing can beat being a jazz musician, playing a club,
playing a concert". I really started listening to Terance
Blanchard in 1994. When he came out with the album “In My
Solitude: The Billie Holiday Songbook”. Since then I have been a
fan. Some of the songs I really like are, Harvesting Dance, Child's
Play, Dos Sperm, Avgo, Bounce/Let's Go Off, Sleeping Is Naturelle and
Footprints, Levees. Terance Blanchard is going to be playing the San
Jose Jazz Festival in August 12, 2012 at 2pm on the main stage. The
San Jose Jazz Festival is going on August 10th
to 12th. If you
have no plans the second of August come week out to the San Jose Jazz
Festival. You can listen to songs from Terance Blanchard on
Streetwise Radio. You can also listen to Streetwise Radio on ITunes,
live365.com, Athena365.com and MyGen365.com.
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