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Musician Terence Blanchard uses jazz to rebuild New Orleans

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Femi Oke

Thursday, August 28 2008

Terence Blanchard is a prolific composer and musician. He’s written film scores for over thirty movies including, “Malcolm X”, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts”, “Inside Man” and “Miracle At St. Anna”, Spike Lee’s upcoming film about the lives of four African-American soldiers fighting in World War 2. Three years ago Blanchard was working on the score of “Inside Man” in Los Angeles when he turned on the television and saw hurricane Katrina hit his home city of New Orleans. Recovering from the disaster and rebuilding and reinvigorating the Crescent City has been his passion ever since. Terence Blanchard joins The Takeaway on the eve of the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans, to talk about how he’s using music to rebuild the city he loves.

Guest: Terence Blanchard, trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, film score composer, artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at Loyola University in New Orleans and New Orleans native
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