About
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...
Known for
By Any MeansMovie • 2026
Perry MasonSeries • 2020
TremeSeries • 2010
Inside ManMovie • 2006
The Princess and the FrogMovie • 2009
BlacKkKlansmanMovie • 2018
SwaggerSeries • 2021
GiaMovie • 1998
Original SinMovie • 2001
The Woman KingMovie • 2022
25th HourMovie • 2002
Shots FiredSeries • 2017
BunrakuMovie • 2010
Cadillac RecordsMovie • 2008
Malcolm XMovie • 1992
HarrietMovie • 2019
Louis Armstrong's Black & BluesMovie • 2022
BamboozledMovie • 2000
They Call Me MagicSeries • 2022
One Night in Miami...Movie • 2020
GlitterMovie • 2001
Next FridayMovie • 2000
BarbershopMovie • 2002
Father of the BrideMovie • 2022