

Grammy-winning Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who has scored all of Lee’s movies since 1991’s ‘Jungle Fever,’ says of working with the director, “Spike has his own sound and his own vision, and I just try to deal with his cinematic language.”
New Orleans music got a Grammy nod Monday (Dec. 7) with nominations forTerence Blanchard and Jon Cleary. The musicians were among a slew of music industry professionals whose names were announced as part of the 2016 class of nominees.
Deadline reports that Christopher Walken and Lenny Kravitz will co-star in LITTLE ROOTIE TOOTIE from writer/director Dan Algrant. Grammy winner composer Terence Blanchard will score original music for the film.
Terence Blanchard is currently recording his score for the upcoming drama Black and White. The film is written and directed by Mike Binder and stars Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Jennifer Ehle, Gillian Jacobs, Andre Holland, Bill Burr, Mpho Koaho and Jillian Estell.
Recently, composer Terence Blanchard was at the Sony Scoring Stage in Culver City, CA to record his score to the new World War II drama, Miracle at St. Anna. Directed by Spike Lee and written by James McBride based on his novel, the film follows four African-American Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near a small Tuscan village on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II.