Terence Blanchard featuring The E-Collective with Turtle Island Quartet

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TERENCE BLANCHARD FEATURING THE E-COLLECTIVE WITH TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2021 AT 8 PM AT ORCHESTRA HALL

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PARADISE JAZZ SERIES Friday, November 19, 2021 at 8 p.m. at Orchestra Hall

TERENCE BLANCHARD

FEATURING THE E-COLLECTIVE WITH TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET Terence Blanchard featuring The E-Collective Terence Blanchard, composer and trumpeter Charles Altura, guitar Taylor Eigsti, piano David Ginyard Jr., bass Oscar Seaton, drums Turtle Island Quartet David Balakrishnan, violin Gabriel Terracciano, violin Benjamin von Gutzeit, viola Malcolm Parson, cello

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rumpeter, bandleader, composer, and educator Terence Blanchard has served as the DSO’s Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair since 2012. Blanchard has performed and recorded with many of jazz’s superstars and currently leads the celebrated E-Collective.

He is also well known for his decades-long collaboration with filmmaker Spike Lee, scoring more than 15 of Lee’s movies since the early 1990s. 2018’s BlacKkKlansman earned Blanchard his first Academy Award nomination, with a second Academy Award nomination in 2021 for Da 5 Bloods. In and out of the film world, Blanchard has received 14 Grammy nominations and six wins, as well as nominations for Emmy, Golden Globe, Sierra, and Soul Train Music awards.

Blanchard’s second opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the memoir of New York Times columnist Charles Blow, recently opened The Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-2022 season, making it the first opera by an African American composer to premiere at the Met. With a libretto by Kasi Lemmons, the opera was commissioned

by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where it premiered in 2019. The New York Times called it “inspiring,” “subtly powerful,” and “a bold affecting adaptation of Charles Blow’s work.” Blanchard’s first opera, Champion, also premiered to critical acclaim in 2013 in St. Louis and starred Denyce Graves with a libretto from Pulitzer Prize Winner Michael Cristofer.

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ince its inception in 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has been a singular force in the creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings. Winner of the 2006 and 2008 Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover Album, Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles. Cellist nonpareil Yo-Yo Ma has proclaimed Turtle Island to be “a unified voice that truly breaks new ground – authentic and passionate – a reflection of some of the most creative music-making today.”

The Quartet’s birth was the result of violinist David Balakrishnan’s brainstorming explorations and compositional vision while completing his master’s degree program at Antioch University West. The journey has taken Turtle Island through forays into folk, bluegrass, swing, bebop, funk, R&B, new age, rock, hip-hop, as well as music of Latin America and India—a repertoire consisting of hundreds of ingenious arrangements and originals. It has included over a dozen recordings on labels such as Windham Hill, Chandos, Koch, Telarc, and Azica; soundtracks for major motion pictures, TV and radio credits such as The Today Show, All Things Considered, Prairie Home Companion, and Morning Edition; feature articles in People and Newsweek magazines; and collaborations with famed artists such as trumpeter Terence Blanchard, clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, guitar legends Leo Kottke and the Assad brothers, The Manhattan Transfer, pianists Billy Taylor, Kenny Barron, Cyrus Chestnut, and Ramsey Lewis, singers Tierney Sutton and Nellie McKay, the Ying Quartet, Parsons Dance, and the Luna Negra Dance Theater.

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