Terence Blanchard

Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and music educator.Blanchard started his career in 1980 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.He has composed more than forty film scores and performed on more than fifty. Since 2000, Blanchard has served as artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.In 2011 he was named artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami.In the fall of 2015 he was named a visiting scholar in jazz composition at Berklee College of Music.