For a concert exploring jazz music in film, there is no better curator than two-time Grammy winner Terence Blanchard - one of the most important musicians, composers and band leaders of his generation. Trumpeter Blanchard seamlessly swings between the worlds of jazz and motion picture scoring. Blanchard has scored over 40 films and is best known for his work scoring films by director/provocateur Spike Lee, but he has also worked with such directors as Kasi Lemmons (“Eve’s Bayou” and “Talk to Me”), Michael Cristofer (“Gia” & “Original Sin”) and Ron Shelton (“Dark Blue”). His latest effort for Spike Lee, “Miracle at St. Anna,” has critics buzzing for the award season. Blanchard has also recorded the movie music of Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Bernard Herman, Jerry Goldsmith and Andre Previn.

Blanchard’s first big breaks came during the early 1980s via jazz icons Lionel Hampton and Art Blakey, the latter particularly known for spotting and grooming alented young musicians. Since then, Blanchard has been tapped to play with many of jazz’s top players.

Terence Blanchard's "Jazz in Film" highlights Blanchard and his quintet, backed by an orchestra, featuring noir-nuanced renditions of various film selections from 1951 onward, including some of Blanchard’s own.