Terence Blanchard

The 2022 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage features an impressive lineup of improvisers, on and off the 30th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival.

Both Terence Blanchard and Wayne Shorter realized long-held dreams: they both premiered operas. But more than that, they crumbled walls that have long separated musical genres and communities.

Jazz United was in the house when Terence Blanchard became the first Black composer to have an opera presented at The Met. In this episode, Greg Bryant and Nate Chinen laud 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' for its music, its message and its broader meaning.

Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the Charles M. Blow memoir of the same title, is the first work by a Black composer to be staged by the Metropolitan Opera.

For the WBGO Journal, Terence Blanchard speaks with Nate Chinen about 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones,' which opens the Metropolitan Opera’s new season in historic fashion.

Bryant Park Picnic Performances and WBGO present the first in a series of video premieres, featuring Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective with Turtle Island Quartet.

Hear the latest from singers Jazzmeia Horn and Kate McGarry, saxophonists Kenny Garrett and Ken Vandermark, and trumpeter Terence Blanchard.

Terence Blanchard, the acclaimed jazz trumpeter and composer, says the fate of the new civil rights movement will depend on the well-meaning outsiders who show up to support it.

Terence Blanchard wrote his first piece of music for a Spike Lee joint nearly 30 years ago. The movie was Mo' Better Blues, which revolves around a…

Terence Blanchard wrote his first piece of music for a Spike Lee joint nearly 30 years ago.The movie was Mo' Better Blues, which revolves around a…