Cast & creator
Terence Blanchard
Best known for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Perry Mason, The Oscars
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 director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. In 2011, he was named artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami, and in 2015, he became a visiting scholar in jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music. In 2019, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) named Blanchard to its Endowed Chair in Jazz Studies, where he remained until 2023. In 2023, SFJAZZ announced the appointment of Blanchard as Executive Artistic Director. He leads the organization's artistic programming and guides its overall creative direction. Blanchard was selected as the 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters. The program is one of the most prestigious honours in jazz. Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Sonny Rollins are among the 173 fellows recognized by the NEA as great figures of jazz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Terence Blanchard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
94
film credits
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television credits
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1953–2027 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (106)
Showing 106 of 106 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
Perry Mason
Original Music Composer
2020
The Oscars
Self
1953
By Any Means
Original Music Composer
2026
The Princess and the Frog
Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)
2009
Treme
2010
Inside Man
Original Music Composer
2006
Swagger
Original Music Composer
2021
Original Sin
Original Music Composer
2001
The Woman King
Original Music Composer
2022
Shots Fired
Original Music Composer
2017
Jungle Fever
Original Music Composer
1991
BlacKkKlansman
Orchestrator
2018BlacKkKlansman
Conductor
2018BlacKkKlansman
Original Music Composer
2018
Malcolm X
Billie Holiday Quartet - Trumpet
1992Malcolm X
Original Music Composer
1992
They Call Me Magic
Original Music Composer
2022
Gia
Original Music Composer
1998
25th Hour
Original Music Composer
2002
Cadillac Records
Original Music Composer
2008
Father of the Bride
Original Music Composer
2022
Barbershop
Original Music Composer
2002
The Salton Sea
Musician
2002
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self
2006When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Music
2006
Da 5 Bloods
Original Music Composer
2020Da 5 Bloods
Orchestrator
2020Da 5 Bloods
Conductor
2020
Harriet
Conductor
2019Harriet
Orchestrator
2019Harriet
Original Music Composer
2019
One Night in Miami...
Orchestrator
2020One Night in Miami...
Original Music Composer
2020
Children of Blood and Bone
Original Music Composer
2027
The Caveman's Valentine
Original Music Composer
2001
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Music
2022
Just Wright
Jazz Musician
2010
Next Friday
Original Music Composer
2000
Summer of Sam
Original Music Composer
1999Summer of Sam
Conductor
1999
A Girl Thing
Original Music Composer
2001
Mo' Better Blues
Musician
1990
Clockers
Original Music Composer
1995
Red Tails
Original Music Composer
2012
Eve's Bayou
Original Music Composer
1997
She Hate Me
Original Music Composer
2004She Hate Me
Orchestrator
2004She Hate Me
Conductor
2004She Hate Me
Musician
2004
Miracle at St. Anna
Original Music Composer
2008
Love & Basketball
Original Music Composer
2000
Bunraku
Original Music Composer
2010
School Daze
Musician
1988
Dark Blue
Original Music Composer
2002
Bruised
Original Music Composer
2021
Waist Deep
Original Music Composer
2006
A Jazzman's Blues
Music Producer
2022A Jazzman's Blues
Music Arranger
2022A Jazzman's Blues
Songs
2022
Glitter
Original Music Composer
2001
Get on the Bus
Original Music Composer
1996
People I Know
Original Music Composer
2002
Bamboozled
Original Music Composer
2000
Sugar Hill
Original Music Composer
1994
Crooklyn
Original Music Composer
1994
Black or White
Original Music Composer
2015
Lethal Seduction
Original Music Composer
2005
'Til There Was You
Original Music Composer
1997
Trial by Jury
Original Music Composer
1994
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
Original Music Composer
2021
Chi-Raq
Original Music Composer
2015
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Original Music Composer
1994
The Comedian
Original Music Composer
2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Original Music Composer
2005
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Original Music Composer
2004
All the Invisible Children
Original Music Composer
2006
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Original Music Composer
1999
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Original Music Composer
2010
4 Little Girls
Original Music Composer
1997
Talk to Me
Original Music Composer
2007
The Truth About Jane
Original Music Composer
2000
Free of Eden
Original Music Composer
1999
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
Original Music Composer
2012
Jim Brown: All-American
Original Music Composer
2002
The Key Man
Original Music Composer
2011
The Color of Courage
Original Music Composer
1999
The Tempest
Original Music Composer
1998
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Self
2005
Sucker Free City
Original Music Composer
2004
Betty and Coretta
Original Music Composer
2013
The Inkwell
Original Music Composer
1994
A Saintly Switch
Original Music Composer
1999
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Original Music Composer
2021
Navigating the Heart
Original Music Composer
2000
Jesus Children of America
Original Music Composer
2005
Jazz at the White House
Self
2016
On the Record
Original Music Composer
2020
The Metropolitan Opera: Champion
Music
2023Chick Corea & Friends: Live - Remembering Bud Powell
2000
Bojangles
Original Music Composer
2001
Lights, Action, Music
Self
2007
Up From the Streets - New Orleans: The City of Music
Self - Host
2021
Gun Hill
Original Music Composer
2014
Guilty until Proven Guilty
2018
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Bud Powell
Trumpet
2005