APPLETON, WIS. — The Lawrence University “Performing Arts at Lawrence” concert series continues on Saturday, February 24 with jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard live in concert at 8:00 p.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel. Tickets are $22 and $20 for adults, $19 and $17 for senior citizens, and $17 and $15 for students. Tickets are available at the Lawrence University Box Office, or by phone at 920-832-6749. Tickets, if available, will also be sold at the box office beginning one hour before the show.
Born in 1962 in New Orleans, Blanchard started his trumpet career in elementary school while being coached at home by his opera-singing father. Blanchard came under the guidance of Ellis Marsalis during high school and after graduating, he attended Rutgers University. While at Rutgers Blanchard impressed one of his professors so much that he was brokered a touring gig with Lionel Hampton’s band. In 1983, Wynton Marsalis recommended Blanchard as his replacement in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Two years later, Blanchard and fellow Messenger Donald Harrison formed their own quintet. In 1990, Blanchard departed the quintet to pursue a solo career where the trumpeter/composer gained acclaim as a bandleader and scorer of movie and television soundtracks.
Blanchard won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group in 2005 for McCoy Tyner’s Illuminations with Gary Bartz, Blanchard, Christian McBride, and Lewis Nash. He was nominated for several other Grammy Awards in 2002, 2001, 1996, and 1990. Blanchard has also been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for The 25th Hour in 2003, and for an Emmy in 1995 for Best Original Score for a Documentary for “The Promised Land.” Blanchard won the Grand Prix du Disque, the French equivalent of the Grammy Award, for the album New York Second Line in 1984.
Blanchard’s discography includes his newest release, Flow, which was release on Blue Note in 2005, McCoy Tyner’s Illuminations, Bounce, Let’s Get Lost, Wandering Moon, Jazz in Film, The Heart Speaks, and many more. Blanchard’s soundtracks and scores including She Hate Me, People I Know, 25th Hour, and Original Sin, among many others.
The final Jazz Series concert of the 2006-07 “Performing Arts at Lawrence” concert series takes place on Friday, June 1 at 8:00 p.m. with Maria Schneider, composer and conductor, who will conduct her composition, performed by the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble (LUJE). For more information on this and other upcoming “Performing Arts at Lawrence” concerts, visit www.lawrence.edu/news/performingartsseries.
