Terence Blanchard: Jazz Musician in New York

About Terence Blanchard

Terence Blanchard is a jazz trumpeter and composer whose work moves between bandstands and scoring stages. A frequent collaborator of filmmaker Spike Lee, he has written more than 80 film and television scores and earned two Academy Award nominations, alongside large-form projects including operas. In New York City, he appears at 92NY in settings that foreground ensemble interplay, including performances with Ravi Coltrane and The E-Collective. His writing favors narrative shape and harmonic detail over showmanship.