Terence Blanchard
Biography
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
BlacKkKlansman
Conductor
Inside Man
Original Music Composer
The Princess and the Frog
Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
The Woman King
Original Music Composer
25th Hour
Original Music Composer
Malcolm X
Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet
Harriet
Conductor
Gia
Original Music Composer
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Filmography
Acting (14)
Movies (10)
Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
2021as Self - Host
Guilty until Proven Guilty
2018
Jazz at the White House
2016as Self
Just Wright
2010as Jazz Musician
The Princess and the Frog
2009as Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
Lights, Action, Music
2007as Self
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005as Self
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
2005as Trumpet
Chick Corea & Friends: Live - Remembering Bud Powell
2000
Malcolm X
1992as Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet
Crew (91)
Movies (84)
Children of Blood and Bone
2027 UpcomingOriginal Music Composer
Jan 14
The Metropolitan Opera: Champion
2023Music
The Woman King
2022Original Music Composer
Father of the Bride
2022Original Music Composer
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022Music
A Jazzman's Blues
2022Music Arranger
A Jazzman's Blues
2022Music Producer
Bruised
2021Original Music Composer
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
2021Original Music Composer
Da 5 Bloods
2020Conductor
Da 5 Bloods
2020Orchestrator
Da 5 Bloods
2020Original Music Composer
One Night in Miami...
2020Orchestrator
One Night in Miami...
2020Original Music Composer
On the Record
2020Original Music Composer
Harriet
2019Conductor
Harriet
2019Orchestrator
Harriet
2019Original Music Composer
BlacKkKlansman
2018Conductor
BlacKkKlansman
2018Orchestrator
BlacKkKlansman
2018Original Music Composer
The Comedian
2016Original Music Composer
Chi-Raq
2015Music
Chi-Raq
2015Original Music Composer
Black or White
2014Original Music Composer
Gun Hill
2014Original Music Composer
Betty and Coretta
2013Original Music Composer
Red Tails
2012Original Music Composer
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
2012Original Music Composer
The Key Man
2011Original Music Composer
Bunraku
2010Original Music Composer
Cadillac Records
2008Original Music Composer
Miracle at St. Anna
2008Original Music Composer
Talk to Me
2007Original Music Composer
Inside Man
2006Original Music Composer
Waist Deep
2006Original Music Composer
All the Invisible Children
2006Original Music Composer
Lethal Seduction
2005Original Music Composer
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005Original Music Composer
Jesus Children of America
2005Original Music Composer
She Hate Me
2004Conductor
She Hate Me
2004Musician
She Hate Me
2004Orchestrator
She Hate Me
2004Original Music Composer
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
2004Original Music Composer
Sucker Free City
2004Original Music Composer
Barbershop
2002Original Music Composer
25th Hour
2002Original Music Composer
Dark Blue
2002Original Music Composer
The Salton Sea
2002Musician
People I Know
2002Original Music Composer
Jim Brown: All-American
2002Original Music Composer
Original Sin
2001Original Music Composer
Glitter
2001Original Music Composer
Bojangles
2001Original Music Composer
The Caveman's Valentine
2001Original Music Composer
Next Friday
2000Original Music Composer
Love & Basketball
2000Original Music Composer
Bamboozled
2000Original Music Composer
The Truth About Jane
2000Original Music Composer
Navigating the Heart
2000Compositors
Navigating the Heart
2000Music
Summer of Sam
1999Conductor
Summer of Sam
1999Original Music Composer
A Saintly Switch
1999Music
Free of Eden
1999Original Music Composer
The Color of Courage
1999Original Music Composer
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999Original Music Composer
Gia
1998Original Music Composer
The Tempest
1998Original Music Composer
'Til There Was You
1997Original Music Composer
Eve's Bayou
1997Original Music Composer
4 Little Girls
1997Original Music Composer
Get on the Bus
1996Original Music Composer
Clockers
1995Original Music Composer
Crooklyn
1994Original Music Composer
Sugar Hill
1994Original Music Composer
Trial by Jury
1994Original Music Composer
The Inkwell
1994Original Music Composer
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994Original Music Composer
Malcolm X
1992Original Music Composer
Jungle Fever
1991Original Music Composer
Mo' Better Blues
1990Musician
School Daze
1988Musician
Television (7)
They Call Me Magic
2022Original Music Composer
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
2021Original Music Composer
Perry Mason
2020Original Music Composer
Shots Fired
2017Original Music Composer
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010Original Music Composer
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006Music
A Girl Thing
2001Original Music Composer
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