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Jazz Goes to the Movies: Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
by Victor L. Schermer
The Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsVerizon HallPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaApril 19, 2008This event, unusual for the Mellon Jazz Series at the Kimmel Center, brought together Terence Blanchard and his quintet, several crossover (jazz and pops) vocalists, and a fine pickup orchestra conducted by Michael Pedicin performing Blanchard's music from eight Spike Lee ...
Terence Blanchard Wins Grammy Award for "A Tale of God's Will"
Trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard took home the Grammy Award last night for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for his epic A Tale of God's Will: A Requiem for Katrina at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The album is an an emotional tour de force of anger, rage, compassion, melancholy and beauty featuring Blanchard's ...
Terence Blanchard: A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina)
by John Kelman
Music can be inspired by--and reflective of--world events. Still, many artists believe that music should not be explicitly political: “Not the music itself, thank God," said trumpeter Dave Douglas, in a 2004 AAJ interview. “Music exists in its own space, independent of all of--that's why it has such power to uplift and raise us to a ...
A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina)
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Ghost Of Congo Square; Levees; Wading Through; Ashe; In Time Of Need; Ghost Of Betsy; The Water; Mantra Intro; Mantra; Over There; Ghost Of 1927; Funeral Dirge; Dear Mom.
Music Reviews: In the Age of Downloads, CDs Still Reign in Jazz
Somehow, in the age of downloads, iPods, file sharing and what-not, great jazz keeps turning up on compact disc. The proof lies in this year's best recordings, which range from the vastness of trumpeter Terence Blanchard's “A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)" to the intimacy of saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi's free-ranging “Tenorist" to the ...
Terence Blanchard: A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina)
by Chris May
Jazz history isn't exactly littered with great albums featuring string orchestras. There have been a few--tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's Focus (Verve, 1961) and British reed player Tim Garland's If The Sea Replied (Sirocco, 2005) are both masterpieces, but precious few others were recorded in the 44 years which separate them. All too often, string orchestras seem ...
Flow
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Flow part I; Wadagbe (intro); Wadagbe; Benny's Tune; Wandering Wonder; Flow part II; The Source; Over There; Child's Play; Flow part III; Harvesting Dance.
Terence Blanchard: Flow
by John Kelman
While some bemoan the fact that there have been no “major" developments in jazz in some time--and go so far as to cite that as proof jazz is dead or, at the very least, dying--they're missing the point. With the seemingly infinite number of sources that are being adopted and adapted into jazz contexts these days, ...
