A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age, NY Times
The emotional climax of Terence Blanchard’s SummerStage concert on Friday night, at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island, arrived precisely one hour in, like a... Read More
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August
2016
Terence Blanchard furthers his Jazz Legacy, WUNC
Jazz trumpet player and composer Terence Blanchard has worn many hats. Read More/Listen
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May
2016
President Barack Obama to host International Jazz Day, Guardian
One of the many perks of being the US president is that if you fancy hosting an International Jazz Day concert from your front room,... Read More
10
May
2016
Terence Blanchard’s Champion: An Opera in Jazz — a Unanimous Winner in San Francisco, Huffington Post
It’s just past mid-February, and yet it seems safer than safe to claim that one of the year’s most exciting musical productions just opened at... Read More
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February
2016
Opera Paralléle and SFJazz to Co-Present CHAMPION, 2/19
San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle and SFJAZZ will present their first collaboration: a new, fully staged production of Champion: An Opera in Jazz by Terence Blanchard, Read More
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January
2016
‘Chi-Raq’ Composer on Longtime Collaboration With Spike Lee: “It’s a Mind-Meld Kind of Thing,” The Hollywood Reporter
Grammy-winning Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who has scored all of Lee’s movies since 1991’s ‘Jungle Fever,’ says of working with the director, “Spike has his... Read More
30
January
2016
Spike Lee takes on gun violence with passion and bold creativity in Chi-Raq
With its titular city again making unsettling headlines this week, “Chi-Raq” arrives like an audacious, confounding, unabashedly sincere cry of the heart. Read More.
03
December
2015
Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” Burns with Rage
More alive than most of the year’s films put together, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” is urgent agitprop that pulsates with unalloyed rage for the “self-inflicted genocide”... Read More
02
December
2015
Terence Blanchard’s E-Collective and Jacob Collier Electrify The Barbican
There’s a rich tradition of mentoring in jazz. New Orleans trumpeter Terence Blanchard benefitted from it when he joined the great Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and now... Read More
24
November
2015
Festival Preview: London Jazz Festival 2015
As always, the EFG London Jazz Festival 2015 draws together the most concentrated and focused selection of improvised music in the capital over the course... Read More
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November
2015
