This Day in Black History: March 13, 1962
Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard was born in New Orleans, on March 13, 1962.
He got his first taste of music young, learning to play piano at age 5 and taking up the trumpet at age 8. While still in high school, he studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. In the 1980s, he continued his training, studying under jazz saxophonist Paul Jeffrey and trumpeter Bill Fielder at Rutgers University and touring with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. After joining Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers group in 1983, he went on form a band co-led with saxophonist Donald Harrison, starting what would become a successful recording career.
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