For Terence Blanchard, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans are not over.
Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective: Breathless |The Urban Music Scene
From a musician who did not take his musical chops seriously until high school, Terence Blanchard eventually fed off his surroundings of New Orleans, a city that breathes blues, Dixieland, funk and is home to The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. N.O.C.C.A. was the breeding ground for this thinking man’s musician whose film compositions for Spike Lee and flexible musical language (Latin jazz, swing, bop) has sparked his career since his early days with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the (Donald) Harrison/Blanchard Group.
By Peggy Oliver
Heart of rock ‘n roll: Strange ways jazz slips into top 40 |AXS
New Orleans jazz-fusion trumpeter and composerTerence Blanchard and his new E-Collective released more than a social statement on May 26 with the 13-track Breathless. They also showed once again how jazz informs a breadth of musicality across genres.