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Terence Blanchard is a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and Golden Globe-nominated film score composer. Since he emerged on the scene in 1980 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then shortly thereafter with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Blanchard has been a leading artist in jazz. He was an integral figure in the 1980s jazz resurgence having recorded several award-winning albums and having performed with the jazz elite. He is known as a straight-ahead artist in the hard bop tradition but has recently utilized an African-fusion style of playing that makes him unique from other trumpeters on the performance circuit. However, it is as a film composer that Blanchard reaches his widest audience. His trumpet can be heard on nearly fifty film scores; more than forty bear his unmistakable compositional style.

The Terence Blanchard Group - Choices [2009]

1. Byus
2. Beethoven
3. D's Choice
4. Journey
5. Hacia del Aire
6. Jazz Man In The World Of Idea
7. Him or Me
8. Choices
9. Hugs [Historically Underrepresented Groups]
10. Winding Roads
11. When Will You Call
12. A New Note
13. A New World [Created Inside The Walls Of Imagination]
14. Touched by An Angel
15. Robin's Choice



The Terence Blanchard Group performing two songs from the "Choices" album: "Choices", "A New World"

Terence Blanchard - A Tale Of God's Will: A Requiem For Katrina [2007]

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans native son Terence Blanchard has created an impassioned song cycle, A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina), as his third album for Blue Note Records. This 13-track emotional tour-de-force of anger, rage, compassion, melancholy, and beauty features Blanchard's quintet- pianist Aaron Parks, saxophonist Brice Winston, bassist Derrick Hodge, drummer Kendrick Scott- as well as a 40-member string orchestra.

1. Ghost Of Congo Square
2. Levees
3. Wading Through
4. Ashé
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

Terence Blanchard - Let's Get Lost [2001]

This album is a tribute to songwriter Jimmy McHugh, a pillar of Broadway and Hollywood throughout much of the first half of the 20th century. Blanchard takes extensive liberties with McHugh's songs and enlists four very well-known female vocalists to help him pull it off: Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves, and Cassandra Wilson. They appear on two songs apiece — except for Krall, who leads off the album playing piano and singing only on the title track.
1. Let's Get Lost
2. Too Young To Go Steady
3. Your A Sweetheart
4. I Can't Believe That You're In love With Me
5. I'm In The Mood For Love
6. Don't Blame Me
7. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
8. Exactly Like You
9. Can't Get Out Of This Mood
10. Lost In The Fog
11. On The Sunny Side Of The Street