The HistoryMakers video oral history with Terence Blanchard.

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Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Oliver Blanchard was born on March 13, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, and then at Rutgers University while touring with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. In the 1980s, Blanchard served as trumpeter and musical...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Blanchard, Terence (Interviewee)
Cole, Harriette (Interviewer)
Hickey, Matthew (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
Blanchard, Terence > Interviews.
Blanchard, Terence.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Trumpet Player > Music Composer.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (The HistoryMakers)
Physical Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 32 min., 21 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard
Format: Electronic Video
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Summary:
Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Oliver Blanchard was born on March 13, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, and then at Rutgers University while touring with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. In the 1980s, Blanchard served as trumpeter and musical director for Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and co-led a quintet with saxophonist Donald Harrison, recording five albums. In 1991, Blanchard recorded and released his self-titled debut album for Columbia Records. He also started to compose scores for Spike Lee's films in the early 1990s, beginning with Jungle Fever. Blanchard composed over fifty film scores for Lee and other directors. Blanchard also served as artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and the Henry Mancini Institute. He has won five Grammy Awards. Blanchard premiered his first opera, Champion, in 2013; and, in 2015, he released his album Breathless.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:02:32:21
Credits:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Participant or Performer:
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded New York, New York 2014 October 8.
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