Terence Blanchard

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

This was the first album on which Terence Blanchard was heard as a bandleader. Columbia Records released it on 18 June 1991. Delfeayo Marsalis produced it. Branford Marsalis and Sam Newsome played tenor saxophone, Bruce Barth piano. Before that, Blanchard had worked on the film Mo' Better Blues, as arranger, trumpeter and trumpet teacher to the actor Denzel Washington.

The album opens and closes with a hymn: Motherless Child and Amazing Grace. In between are four originals and three standards. Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote that Blanchard was ready to become one of the great trumpeters of the 1990s. Leonard Feather praised Tomorrow's Just a Luxury and Sing Soweto as proof of a strong compositional talent, but found Wandering Wonder and Azania somewhat too exuberant.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Motherless Child0:45Apple Music ↗
2. 2Wandering Wonder5:38Apple Music ↗
3. 3Tomorrow's Just a Luxury5:48Apple Music ↗
4. 4Goodbye11:49Apple Music ↗
5. 5Au Privave5:40Apple Music ↗
6. 6Sing Soweto4:01Apple Music ↗
7. 7I'm Getting Sentimental Over You7:59Apple Music ↗
8. 8Azania13:20Apple Music ↗
9. 9Amazing Grace1:50Apple Music ↗

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