Eclectic is an overused word. But in the case of trumpeter, pianist and composer Terence Blanchard who rose to the top of the jazz world, has composed scores for more than fifty films and more recently has taken the opera world by storm, it almost uniquely applies. How does a single artist manage to encapsulate multiple genres, genres so territorial as to have built their own uncrossable boundaries?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM on January 22, 2024