Terence Blanchard
Sound
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…
Filmography
80
Children of Blood and Bone
2027
The Metropolitan Opera: Champion
2023
The Woman King
2022
A Jazzman's Blues
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
Father of the Bride
2022
They Call Me Magic
2022
Bruised
2021
Swagger
2021
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
2021
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
2021
One Night in Miami...
2020
Perry Mason
2020
Da 5 Bloods
2020
On the Record
2020
Harriet
2019
Guilty until Proven Guilty
2018
BlacKkKlansman
2018
Shots Fired
2017
The Comedian
2016
Chi-Raq
2015
Black or White
2015
Gun Hill
2014
Betty and Coretta
2013
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
2012
Red Tails
2012
The Key Man
2011
Bunraku
2010
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010
Just Wright
2010
Treme
2010
The Princess and the Frog
2009
Cadillac Records
2008
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
Talk to Me
2007
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006
Waist Deep
2006
Inside Man
2006
All the Invisible Children
2006
Jesus Children of America
2005
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
2005
Lethal Seduction
2005
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005
Sucker Free City
2004
She Hate Me
2004
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
2004
25th Hour
2002
Dark Blue
2002
People I Know
2002
Barbershop
2002
Jim Brown: All-American
2002
The Salton Sea
2002
Glitter
2001
Original Sin
2001
Bojangles
2001
The Caveman's Valentine
2001
A Girl Thing
2001
Bamboozled
2000
The Truth About Jane
2000
Love & Basketball
2000
Chick Corea & Friends: Live - Remembering Bud Powell
Chick Corea & Friends: Live - Remembering Bud Powell
2000
Navigating the Heart
2000
Next Friday
2000
Summer of Sam
1999
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
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