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 Saturday, 25 May 2013 |
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Terence Blanchard Quintet in San Francisco and Santa Cruz, 8/10-13 |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Tuesday, 07 August 2012 |
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“[The musicians] are able to take these compositions and immediately translate them into the particular sound of Terence’s band, which in many ways reminds me of what used to happen with Miles.” -Herbie Hancock  Terence Blanchard @Andrea Canter
Grammy Award–winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard has some 30 albums to his credit (including 2009’s acclaimed Concord Jazz CD Choices) and has composed music for motion pictures ranging from Malcolm X to Cadillac Records. An alumnus of the Lionel Hampton and Art Blakey bands, Terence Blanchard “plays the most coolly expressive trumpet in jazz,” says Vanity Fair, “transmuting the instrument’s repertoire of smears, growls, peeps, and blasts into an astonishingly fluid language both luxurious and controlled.” The quintet features Terence Blanchard on trumpet, Brice Winston on tenor saxophone, Fabian Almazan on piano, Joshua Crumbly on bass, and Kendrick Scott on drums. The Terence Blanchard Quintet comes to Yoshi's in San Francisco on Friday, August 10th and Saturday, August 11th (Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m.) and they then head to the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz on Monday, August 13th (shows at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.).
 Terence Blanchard @ Andrea Canter
As a film composer, Blanchard has more than 50 scores to his credit and received a Golden Globe nomination for Spike Lee's 25th Hour. In 2008 he completed the score for Lee's Miracle at St. Anna, as well as the soundtrack for Darnell Martin's Cadillac Records. Other film music written by Blanchard includes Kasi Lemmons' Eve's Bayou and Talk to Me, Oprah Winfrey's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tim Story's Barbershop and Ron Shelton's Dark Blue. He is currently working on the score for George Lucas' "Red Tails" and has already completed scoring on Disney's "The Princess and the Frog," set for release this fall.
As Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which he was instrumental in relocating from Los Angeles to New Orleans, Blanchard works with students in the areas of artistic development, arranging, composition and concert programming. He also participates in master classes around the world as well as local community outreach activities in his beloved hometown of New Orleans.
Concord Jazz presents Choices, the new CD from three-time Grammy award winning trumpet player and composer Terence Blanchard. Recorded in March in Blanchard's hometown of New Orleans at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Choices addresses the choices we all make in life - both as a society and on a personal level.
Yoshi’s in San Francisco is located at 1330 Fillmore Street. Reservations at www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/.
The Kuumbwa Jazz Center is located at 320-2 Cedar Street in Santa Cruz. Call (831) 427-2227 or visit www.kuumbwajazz.org for ticket information.
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