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Terence Blanchard: Requiem for Katrina
Terence Blanchard - Ashe - (A Requiem for Katrina)
Choices Webisode 1: Evolving | Terence Blanchard
1 Ghost Of Congo Square  
2 Levees  
3 Wading Through  
4 Ashe  
5 In Time Of Need  
6 Ghost Of Betsy  
7 The Water  
8 Mantra Intro  
9 Mantra  
10 Over There  
11 Ghost Of 1927  
12 Funeral Dirge  
13 Dear Mom  
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Terence Blanchard: A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina). The crucible of catastrophe impels creative expression. Since the turn of the century, this has taken shape in manifold ways, from artistic responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the war in Iraq to the pummeling of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It is this latter calamity that informs Crescent City native son Terence Blanchard's impassioned song cycle, a 13-track emotional tour de force of anger, rage, compassion, melancholy and beauty. A Tale of God's Will, which features Blanchard's quintet-pianist Aaron Parks, saxophonist Brice Winston, bassist Derrick Hodge, drummer Kendrick Scott-as well as a 40-member string orchestra, is his third album for Blue Note Records.

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  • Terence Blanchard set for SD performance and sold-out MLK Day conversation at UCSD / The San Diego Union-Tribune
    Posted At: January 13, 2023 12:00 AM
    Oscar nominee, six-time Grammy-winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies – past and present.
     From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films ranging from the documentary When the Levees Broke, about Blanchard’s hometown of New Orleans during the de...
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  • Los Angeles Times spotlights Oscar-contending composer for 'The Woman King' ...Terence Blanchard
    Posted At: November 17, 2022 12:00 AM
    Los Angeles Times TIM GREIVING writes…The word “spectrum” came up in almost every interview with the Oscar-contending composers spotlighted in this issue. Sometimes it was about favoring the lighter or darker ends of an emotional range, or in one case honoring the continuum between female warriors from 19th century Africa and the women in a composer’s own life. With “Nope,” it was part of Jordan Peele’s who...
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  • 'The Woman King' is one of the best big Hollywood epics in some time / NO MAJESTY
    Posted At: September 30, 2022 12:00 AM
    NO MAJESTY's Paul Klein writes…Historical epics are as old as the hills, but there’s something thrilling about watching epic battles play out, knowing that there is at least a tiny amount of truth to them. Gladiator remains the high standard for taking the grain of the truth and spinning it into a huge historical yarn.Taking it’s cue from history, we find the West African kingdom of Dahomey in 1823, King Gh...
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  • The complicated history behind 'The Woman King' / TIME
    Posted At: September 15, 2022 12:00 AM
    TIME LAURA ZORNOSA…..General Nanisca, played by an imposing Viola Davis, rises slowly out of a bed of tall grass in the dead of night. Behind her, an entire army materializes silently out of the grass, each member poised with a weapon in hand. When we meet them onscreen, the Agojie—a group of women warriors who fought for the kingdom of Dahomey—are inconspicuous, keeping a low profile. But in 19th century W...
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  • Terence Blanchard to discuss 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' with WNYC: Aria Code
    Posted At: October 7, 2021 12:00 AM

    This fall, Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones became the first opera by a Black composer staged at the Metropolitan Opera. In this very special online talk, Aria Code host Rhiannon Giddens will talk with Terence about this historic premiere, his writing process and the unique challenges of staging an opera in the midst of a global pandemic.    Aria Code will also present a...
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  • Jazz and opera come together in Terence Blanchard's 'Fire' /
    Posted At: October 5, 2021 12:00 AM

    Terence Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," which opened the Metropolitan Opera's season last week, was a milestone: the company's first work by a Black composer. Two New York Times critics - Giovanni Russonello and Seth Colter Walls discuss the Metropolitan Opera's first work by a Black composer. They write....."Fire Shut Up in My Bones," which opened the Metropolitan Opera's season last we...
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  • Terence Blanchard's 'Da 5 Bloods' score makes 'COLLIDER: Top 10 of 2020'
    Posted At: December 29, 2020 12:00 AM

    The DA 5 BLOODS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE) with music composed by six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning trumpeter and composer TERENCE BLANCHARD features music written for the Spike Lee film. The soundtrack was released on Milan Records. Collider's Adam Chitwood picked the score for COLLIDER's Top 10 list. Here's his review If one word best summed up Spike Lee's Netflix movie...
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  • Pulling 'Michael Murphy's New Orleans doc all together is Terence Blanchard / LondonJazz News
    Posted At: December 22, 2020 12:00 AM

    It hits you from the moment you touch down on the tarmac – the airport in New Orleans is named after none other than their great jazz legend Louis Armstrong. And from that moment on, your visit to the Crescent City is one big immersive experience into everything from parade music, funk, hip-hop, rural Zydeco music, loud guitar-driven Americana, the singing of the Southern Baptist church – and...
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  • Terence Blanchard - DA 5 BLOODS makes 'The Quietus: Best Film Scores Of 2020'
    Posted At: December 15, 2020 12:00 AM

    While cinema releases have been upended across the industry, a wealth of film music has still impressed resident expert Charlie Brigden, who runs us through his top 10 of 2020. I don't know if it's comforting or not to read that, in this absolute shitshow of a year, the soundtrack fountain has been flowing plentifully. It's certainly helped to have a distraction, and I guess if you're goi...
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  • Terence Blanchard receives the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 77th Venice International Film Festival / JAZZIZ
    Posted At: September 4, 2020 12:00 AM

    The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz world. It's a one-stop destination for the music news you need to know. Let's take it from the top. Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard is receiving the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, which runs on September 2-12 in Italy. The award, institut...
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  • Terence Blanchard to receive Venice 'Passion' award / Variety
    Posted At: August 27, 2020 12:00 AM

    Terence Blanchard, Oscar and BAFTA-nominated for Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman," and a Grammy winner for the "Blood and Soil" track from the film's original soundtrack, will receive the Venice Film Festival's Campari "Passion for Film" award this year. Blanchard also composed the score for Lee's Netflix film "Da 5 Bloods" and Regina King's "One Night in Miami," which is playing out of competition at Venice...
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  • Terence Blanchard's songs are the perfect fit for HBO's 2020-rebooted 'Perry Mason' / Men'sHealth
    Posted At: July 17, 2020 12:00 AM

    HBO's Perry Mason is a few things all at once. It's a reboot of a property that has, at one time or another, been a series of books, a TV show, or a radio show. It's a Robert Downey Jr. passion project (and one the Avengers star is still a part of as an executive producer). It's the network's latest in a series of non-True Detective shows that are nonetheless in the True Detective spi...
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  • 'Da 5 Bloods.' Black lives matter in Vietnam / Honk News
    Posted At: July 9, 2020 12:00 AM

    Spike Lee's very new joint is an anguished, more funny, violent argument with and about the whole American history, also with an unforgettable performance from Delroy Lindo at its heart. Spike Lee's career can also be described as a lover's quarrel with American movies and with America, too. As he has demonstrated his mastery of established genres, he has also now reinvented them, pointing out the blind ...
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  • In town for his Georgia State - Rialto Center date, Terence Blanchard chats with 91.9WCLK: Atlanta
    Posted At: February 15, 2020 12:00 AM

    Terence Blanchard is in town for his performance TONIGHT at the Rialto Center and talked to UPFRONT about his numerous TV and film projects. He'll be teaming up with Raphael Saadiq this spring to score the soundtrack for NatGeo's GENIUS: ARETHA biopic starring Oscar-nominated actress Cynthia Erivo. He is also reuniting with Spike Lee for Da 5 Bloods and a reboot of Perry Mason. Blanchard also rev...
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  • Terence Blanchard's 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' to premiere at The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis / JAZZIZ
    Posted At: April 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) announced the world premiere of trumpeter-composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmons' Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the memoir of celebrated writer Charles Blow. This opera is part of OTSL's series New Works, Bold Voices, which is committed to commissioning new operas that reflect the diversity of modern American experience. Fire Shut Up in My Bone...
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  • Composer Terence Blanchard to receive BMI's Icon Award / Variety
    Posted At: April 12, 2019 12:00 AM

    Composer and jazz artist Terence Blanchard will be named a BMI Icon at the 35th annual Film, TV and Visual Media Awards of Broadcast Music Inc. on May 15 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The five-time Grammy winner and recent Oscar nominee (for "BlacKkKlansman") has long been director Spike Lee's favorite composer, having written the scores for "Malcolm X," "Inside Man," "25th Hour," the K...
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  • BlacKkKlansman score is a sophisticated piece of work / exclaim!@#$
    Posted At: March 15, 2019 12:00 AM

    With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee effectively crafted himself a cultural moment, as the film not only nabbed some serious critical praise but prestigious awards recognition as well. Of course, the director didn't do it alone, though, and one those key assists came from Terence Blanchard, who helmed the 2018 film's Grammy-winning score. Made with Blanchard's current band E-Collective and a 96-pie...
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  • A half-century's worth of JazzFest performances are set for release on new Smithsonian Folkways box / Off BEAT
    Posted At: March 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    Fans of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will be treated to a half-century's worth of live performances in a very special commemorative box CD set being released in celebration of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary. In honor of Jazz Fest's golden anniversary, Smithsonian Folkways is releasing five discs of live performances from past years' festivals. Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Herit...
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  • Blessed to be in a shithole country for PaPJazz / FRANCE 24
    Posted At: January 22, 2019 12:00 AM

    At a time when most of the world's jazz capitals are buried under snow or suffering through sub-zero temperatures, Haiti is offering fans a week of outdoor concerts showcasing the best talents in the business in a balmy Caribbean clime, the 13th edition of the Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival, running now through January 26. Now in its thirteenth year, PaPJazz, as the Festival International de J...
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  • DSO's Soluna Festival celebrates film scoring with Terence Blanchard / D Magazine
    Posted At: January 16, 2019 12:00 AM

    This morning, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced a four-week schedule of concerts, performances, and happenings for the fifth annual Soluna International Music & Arts Festival, which is coming from April 4 through April 28. While anchored by DSO performances, the festival aims to draw a connection from the lofty world of classical music to modern life in Dallas. There are a lot of intriguing...
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  • Why the 'BlacKkKlansman' score could earn Terence Blanchard his first Oscar / Los Angeles Times
    Posted At: January 12, 2019 12:00 AM

    One of the most arresting sequences in Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman" - based on the true story of an African American cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in 1970s Colorado - comes right at the beginning of the movie. It involves Alec Baldwin, as a fictional white supremacist academic, filming a kind of segregationist infomercial. As he delivers his increasingly hateful diatribe, images from D.W. Griffith...
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  • Watch GOLDDERBY EXCLUSIVE w/Terence Blanchard
    Posted At: October 12, 2018 12:00 AM

    When composer Terence Blanchard first heard the plot of "BlacKkKlansman he "didn't think it was a real story. I kept thinking, wow, this is a great piece of fiction." But when director Spike Lee informed his longtime collaborator that the tale of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), an African-American police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s, was indeed true, Blanchard though...
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  • The music for BlacKkKlansman comes from NOLA's Terence Blanchard / offBEAT Magazine
    Posted At: September 6, 2018 12:00 AM

    BlacKkKlansman is Spike Lee's provocative film about an African-American detective who goes undercover to infiltrate the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Based on a true story, the film has achieved global fame with a score was created by New Orleans' very own Terence Blanchard. Blanchard was surprised when Spike Lee asked him to write the score for Jungle Fever in 1991. Then Lee asked him to writ...
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  • Slowing down long enough to chat with billboard, the indefatigable Terence Blanchard touches on everything
    Posted At: April 22, 2018 12:00 AM

    "People don't know how to take me," says jazz trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard with a laugh. It's a rare rainy day in Los Angeles and the five-time Grammy Award winner is seated inside a West Hollywood hotel suite. Flanked by a piano festooned with sheet music on one side and a keyboard roosting on a granite kitchen countertop on the other, Blanchard is talking about the trio of projects he's bee...
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  • Terence Blanchard feat. E-Collective with 'Dear Jimi' on NPR: Songs We Love
    Posted At: March 23, 2018 12:00 AM

    Terence Blanchard has always been drawn to a form of lyricism that runs burnished and bittersweet. You can track this mood throughout his career as a post-bop trumpeter, and no less in his dozens of film scores, in and beyond a long affiliation with Spike Lee. That quality of mournful uplift also rings loud and clear on Blanchard's forthcoming album LIVE. It's a showcase for the sleek young b...
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  • Terence Blanchard's 'Champion' is a case study in pathos, confused identity, fame, and the price paid / The New Orleans Advocate
    Posted At: March 11, 2018 12:00 AM

    Terence Blanchard's two-act opera "Champion," which premiered locally at the Mahalia Jackson Theater on Friday and will be reprised in a Sunday matinee by the New Orleans Opera Association, is a case study in pathos, confused identity, the joys of fame and the price that is often paid during the rise to the top. Working from a fact-based libretto by Michael Cristofer, Blanchard, a Grammy-winning New Orle...
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  • Terence Blanchard happy to share the spotlight with his exceptional band / Charleston City Paper
    Posted At: June 5, 2017 12:00 AM

    Forty minutes into his own performance at the Cistern, Terence Blanchard had played trumpet for about five minutes. He'd spent most of the concert standing near the back of the stage as his four-piece supporting band jammed through a nearly non-stop segue of original songs and classics like Marcus Miller's "Hannibal." Halfway through, it felt like Blanchard was more of the musical director of the...
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  • Terence Blanchard's score for The Comedian evokes a nocturnal New York / Financial Times
    Posted At: April 8, 2017 12:00 AM

    On The Comedian(Blue Note), Grammy-winning trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard returns to his jazz-renaissance roots with a set steeped in the glossy hues and tones of New York City at night. Blanchard's score for the soundtrack of Robert De Niro's new film captures a late-life crisis with jaunty blues, brooding balladry and svelte modern jazz. The mood-setting themes have strong melodies and rhyth...
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  • Terence Blanchard's 'Champion' comes out swinging at Kennedy Center / Metro Weekly
    Posted At: March 12, 2017 12:00 AM

    Another contemporary opera following fast on the heels of Dead Man Walking, Terence Blanchard's Champion continues the fascinating conversation on today's opera. It's a great choice for two reasons. First, like Dead Man, it shows that modern opera doesn't have to be a discordant concept-piece. Like the best of traditional opera, it can tell a compelling, deeply enthralling story. But Champion is also a b...
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  • Terence Blanchard's 'Champion. ' An opera in jazz / San Diego Voice and Viewpoint
    Posted At: March 11, 2017 12:00 AM

    Pop, Rock, Jazz, and Classical. These are all separate genres of music. But what happens when you put two of them together? You get "opera in jazz" rather than "jazz opera," according to jazz musician and opera composer Terence Blanchard, who is the former Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Artistic Director. Blanchard is also a jazz trumpeter from New Orleans who has over 20 albums ...
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  • In 'Bud, Not Buddy' Terence Blanchard writes serious music for high school musicians to perform / Washington Post
    Posted At: January 13, 2017 12:00 AM

    For Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard, composing a jazz concert based on the children's novel "Bud, Not Buddy" meant more than just telling Christopher Paul Curtis's colorful Depression-era tale in musical terms. It meant writing serious music that high school kids could perform. "I'm not trying to give them a free ride," Blanchard said by phone recently from Cleveland, where he was on tou...
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  • Terence Blanchard & E-Collective wage racial peace in Dallas / TheaterJones review
    Posted At: January 11, 2017 12:00 AM

    Six months after an African-American gunman killed five white and Hispanic Dallas police and DART officers, Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective rolled into Dallas with a message: We had to be here." In announcing the tour last year, he stated, "This band represents the best of America's ideals. We're five very different personalities with different visions who play together for a common goal: ...
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  • Terence Blanchard | E-Collective set to record new album LIVE at the BOP STOP / Cool Cleveland
    Posted At: December 27, 2016 12:00 AM

    New Orleans trumpeter Terence Blanchard and his band E-Collective - guitarist Charles Altura, piano/sythns player Fabian Almazan, drummer Oscar Seaton and bassist David "DJ" Ginyard - will perform two consecutive nights Wed. 1/4 & Thurs. 1/5 at the Bop Stop and record the live shows. "This band represents the best of America's ideals," says Blanchard. "We're five very different personali...
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  • Terence Blanchard & E-Collective set to record live sessions at Cleveland's 'Bop Stop' / SCENE
    Posted At: December 15, 2016 12:00 AM

    An icon in the jazz world, trumpet player Terence Blanchard recently announced that he will record his new album, Caravan, in cities "scarred by the escalation of tension between law enforcement and unarmed African Americans." Given Cleveland's record of police shootings and racial tension, it only makes sense that Blanchard would include the city on his itinerary. Blanchard and his backing band the ...
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  • Terence Blanchard scores new film - The Comedian / WGNO-TV
    Posted At: November 4, 2016 12:00 AM

    "A movie without music is kind of like life with color," jazz musician Terence Blanchard said. Most people don't know how much work goes into putting a film together. Pre-production and production are two beasts to take on by themselves. When the filming is done and the actors go home, then it's time to add color to the movie. The music behind the movie plays a very important role in the film mak...
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  • Terence Blanchard puts together some of UK's best emerging jazz artists / Warrington Guardian
    Posted At: September 16, 2016 12:00 AM

    HE is a Grammy award-winning trumpeter and bandleader who has composed the music for every Spike Lee film since the 90s. But despite all his accolades, what makes Terence Blanchard more proud is helping others succeed in the world of jazz. The 54-year-old grew up in New Orleans where he was welcomed into the Louisiana city's proud music community since he was a child. So he feels like he is passing o...
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