Terence Blanchard Quintet

Five-time Grammy Award winner Terence Blanchard brings his ensemble’s renowned jazz stylings to the Schimmel Theatre. With more than 29 albums and 50 film scores to his credit, Blanchard is also the composer of A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina), a song cycle about Hurricane Katrina and the ravages suffered by the city of New Orleans and its residents.

For his score to Spike Lee’s 25th Hour Blanchard received a Golden Globe nomination and was also named Downbeat’s Trumpeter of the Year. Currently he is working on the score for George Lucas’s Red Tails and has completed musical contributions to the score for Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, set for release this fall.