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The Terence Blanchard Quintert at the Jazz Standard, NY. June 20-24 |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Wednesday, 20 June 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
The Terence Blanchard group trturns to the Jazz Standard in New York on Wednesday, June 20th through Sunday, June 24th. The Grammy Award–winning trumpeter 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.
Blanchard has established himself as one of the most influential jazz musicians and film score masters of his generation, a member of a jazz legacy that has shaped the contours of modern jazz today. With more than 29 albums to his credit, as a musician Blanchard is a multi-Grammy Award winner and nominee, winning earlier this year for his instrumental solo for "Be-Bop" on Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival. In addition to receiving the award, Blanchard performed live on the telecast along with other New Orleans artists including Lil' Wayne, Allen Toussaint and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who were all joined on-stage by singer Robin Thicke. In 2008, Blanchard also won a Grammy for his CD, A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina), a beautifully haunting and impassioned song cycle about Hurricane Katrina and the ravages incurred upon the City of New Orleans and its residents.
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.
The Jazz Standard is located at 116 East 27th Street (btw. Park and Lex.) 212-576-2232 www.jazzstandard.net. |
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