Trumpet Great Terence Blanchard Loves Kansas City Jazz, is ‘Excited’ to Perform Here
Kansas City Star
September 30, 2022
Patrick Neas
“Terence Blanchard is one of the most significant musical figures of our day.
The outstanding jazz trumpeter played with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and and Jazz Messengers before he hit number three on the Jazz Billboard chart with his first solo album in 1990. He has won five Grammy Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards for his scores for films by Spike Lee.
Blanchard has also made waves in the classical world with his groundbreaking opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.”
The Harriman-Jewell Series will present Blanchard in “Absence” Oct. 2 at the Atkins Auditorium in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
“Absence” is Blanchard’s tribute to another jazz great, the 89-year-old saxophonist Wayne Shorter.”