His career as a film composer began Blanchard end of the 80s with his work for Spike Lee, for which he - after he played already in Do the Right Thing (Do the Right Thing, 1989) and School Daze (School Daze, 1988) Trumpet had - the music for Mo 'Better Blues (Mo' Better Blues, 1990) wrote and grossed. Since then he worked for all other films of Spike Lee as a musician or composer. Moreover, Blanchard has won a number of prestigious music prizes: a Grand Prix du Disque Award, nominated for a Grammy (for Mo 'Better Blues), an Emmy Award nomination (Best Original Score for the documentary The Promised Land, 1995) and again a Grammy nomination for his Latin jazz album "The Heart Speaks" of 1996th The exceptional trumpeter Terence Blanchard dedicated his latest album to songwriter Jimmy McHugh and his wonderful ballads! To support himself Blanchard another singer took the most songs to his side like Cassandra Wilson or Diana Krall. The quartet around the trumpeter has glorious lyrical jazz at the highest level!
