Terence Blanchard
b. 13 March 1962, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. One of several brilliant young musicians emerging from New Orleans in the 80s, Blanchard began playing piano at the age of five and sang with a vocal group, the Harlem Harmony Kings. He took up the trumpet at the age of eight and began lessons in his early teens while studying at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts under Ellis Marsalis, father of Blanchard's contemporaries and fellow New Orleanians, Branford Marsalis and Wynton Marsalis. A year later, Blanchard was studying composition and in 1980 went to Rutgers University. That same year he joined Lionel Hampton, with whom he played for two years before replacing Wynton Marsalis in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. At the same time, Donald Harrison, a fellow student from his days in New Orleans, replaced Branford in the Messengers.
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Albums
- (2008) Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars: Live 2007
- (2008) Miracle at St. Anna
- (2007) A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina)
- (2005) Flow
- (2003) Bounce
- (2001) Let's Get Lost
- (2000) Wandering Moon
- (1999) Jazz in Film
- (1996) The Heart Speaks
- (1994) The Billie Holiday Songbook
Top Tracks
- Taxi Driver
- Chinatown
- Open Title
- Lady Sings The Blues
- Left Alone
Related Artists
- Miles Davis
- Wynton Marsalis
- Freddie Hubbard
- Clifford Brown
- Woody Shaw
- Louis Armstrong
- Lee Morgan
- Art Farmer
- Donald Byrd
- Wallace Roney
- Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet
- Louis Armstrong Hot Five
- Fats Navarro
- Art Farmer And The Louis Vandyke
- Louis Armstrong & His Hot Six
- Louis Armstrong The Hot Fives
- Branford Marsalis
- Sonny Rollins
- Chet Baker
- Kenny Dorham
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