The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Terence Blanchard

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Terence Blanchard

10/8/2014

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2014.248

Trumpet player and music composer Terence Blanchard (1962 - ) was a five-time Grammy Award-winning musician and a prolific film score composer. He released twenty jazz albums and wrote over fifty film scores for Spike Lee and other directors. Blanchard was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 10/8/2014, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 32m 21s

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Blanchard, Terence

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Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Oliver Blanchard was born on March 13, 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Wilhelmina and Joseph Oliver Blanchard. Blanchard began playing piano at the age of five, but switched to trumpet three years later. While in high school, he took extracurricular classes at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. From 1980 to 1982, Blanchard studied at Rutgers University in New Jersey and toured with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra.In 1982, Blanchard replaced trumpeter Wyn...