Terence Blanchard

USA

Born: 13 March 1962

Years Active: 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Jazz

Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Bop, Crossover Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion

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In the post-Wynton Marsalis era, jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard has become a most prominent brass player, bandleader, recording artist, orchestrator of film scores, and leader in the mainstream post-bop community. Born on March 13, 1962, in New Orleans, LA, Terence Oliver Blanchard was an only child to parents Wilhelmina and Joseph Oliver Blanchard. He began playing piano by the age of five, switched to trumpet three years later, and played alongside childhood friend Marsalis in summer band camps. While in high school, he took extracurricular...

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