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Lee Moore
- Lee
What CD is in your car right now?
- Terence
- D’Angelo’s latest (VOODOO).
- Lee
- At the age of five you began to study the piano, however in
1976 you decided that you wanted to take up the trumpet, why?
- Terence
- Alvin Alcorn came to my grade school and gave a
demonstration on New Orleans traditional music. I was immediately
captivated by the trumpet’s sound.
- Lee
- Very few African-American jazz artists have the opportunity
to compose or write a score for a movie since Duke Ellington. How do you feel to be
in this elite category?
- Terence
- It is a real honor for my name to be mentioned in the same
sentence as Duke Ellington’s. I feel very blessed to have these opportunities
given to me.
- Lee
- What movie was the most difficult theme or score to compose? Why?
- Terence
- It’s hard for me to answer that question. The movie was
not a good movie and I wouldn’t want to bring attention to it by naming it.
- Lee
- If you were able to produce a documentary about Terence
Blanchard, who would you pick to become the composer of your movie?
- Terence
- Wayne Shorter. I have always admired his daring and
creative nature as a composer. He is, to me, one of the greatest composers of all
types of music in his generation. Just check out any one of his Blue Note
recordings.
- Lee
- From 1940 through the 1960’s, jazz music was the
mainstream musical genre in the African-American community. Why do
you think jazz music is not popular among young African-Americans
today?
- Terence
- Because young African-Americans in large part, have bought
into the notion of us
being mono-dimensional. When you look into our history, you
see the wide range of interests and talents we possess. It is a shame to think
that if one does not aspire to the collective thought, one is not
part of the whole.
- Lee
- If you were able to play a lead role in a movie what
character would you portray?
- Terence
- Malcolm X. He is a man who was truly in search of honest
answers. His greatness came in his willingness to admit to his faults and
mistakes and to do his best to correct them.
- Lee
- Can you tell us about upcoming films you’ll have
soundtracks for?
- Terence
- I have a number of interesting projects. Of course
there is the coming-of-age love story (Love and Basketball – Director: Gina
Prince-Bythewood/New Line Cinema); the story of a homeless
classical composer (Caveman’s Valentine – Director: Kasi
Lemmons/Jersey Films); a young girl’s struggle with her sexuality
(Jane’s Coming Out Party – Director: Lee Rose/Lifetime
Television); a film on racism in television (Bamboozled –
Director: Spike Lee/New Line Cinema); a dark mystery set in turn of
the century Cuba (Dancing in the Dark – Director: Michael
Cristofer/MGM); and an action murder mystery involving a trumpet
player who loves Miles Davis (Salton Sea– Director: DJ
Caruso/Castle Rock Entertainment.).
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