Terrance Blanchard

Artist in Residence

Artistic Director, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at Loyola University New Orleans

During the past 20 years, on the strength of poll-topping CDs and award-winning Hollywood film scores, Blanchard has established himself among the most influential jazz composers and players of his generation. Having recently signed with Blue Note, he joins a jazz legacy that has shaped the contours of modern jazz today, stretching back to 1939 and including formative albums by one of Blanchard's mentors, the legendary drummer and bandleader Art Blakey.

As a jazz musician, Blanchard is a multi-Grammy Award nominee, winning most recently for his 2005 album Flow. As a film composer, Blanchard received a Golden Globe nomination for a recent film project, Spike Lee's, 25th Hour. He began his film scoring career in the late '80s working with Lee on films such as Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Clockers, Summer of Sam, Bamboozled, the Academy Award-nominated 1997 documentary Four Little Girls, and the recently released documentary Jim Brown: All American. He recently scored the runaway hits, Inside Man, directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, and Barbershop, directed by Tim Story and starring Ice Cube.

In his role as Artistic Director, Blanchard works with the Institute of Jazz Performance students in the areas of artistic development, arranging, composition, career counseling, and concert programming. He also participates in master classes and community outreach activities associated with the college program.

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