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Terence Blanchard Turns A Tragic Champion Into An Opera Hero

Posted on June 15, 2013 by NPR Music in NPR Music
Terence Blanchard Turns A Tragic Champion Into An Opera Hero

The jazz composer’s latest project is an opera based on the life of Emile Griffith, a gay boxer who became a world champion in the 1960s — at a price.

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Jazz24 Studio Sessions

Live performances in the Jazz24 Seattle studios from world-class jazz and blues musicians.

  • Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo: ‘Better than caffeine’

    Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo: ‘Better than caffeine’

    Carlos Cascante y su Tumbao: Jazz Caliente … Live!

    Carlos Cascante y su Tumbao: Jazz Caliente … Live!

  • The Greyboy Allstars: A serious party band

    The Greyboy Allstars: A serious party band

    Ann Hampton Callaway: Singing the standards, Streisand and making it up as she goes

    Ann Hampton Callaway: Singing the standards, Streisand and making it up as she goes

  • Joan Osborne and The Holmes Brothers are a recipe for soul

    Joan Osborne and The Holmes Brothers are a recipe for soul

    Molly Ringwald: Rediscovering her jazz roots

    Molly Ringwald: Rediscovering her jazz roots

  • Holly Cole: Reinventing the familiar

    Holly Cole: Reinventing the familiar

    Singer Jackie Ryan’s life in music

    Singer Jackie Ryan’s life in music

  • Juan de Marcos and The Afro-Cuban All Stars: The Soul Of Cuba

    Juan de Marcos and The Afro-Cuban All Stars: The Soul Of Cuba

    The intimacy of the duo: Dee Dee Bridgewater and Benny Green

    The intimacy of the duo: Dee Dee Bridgewater and Benny Green

  • Graham Dechter: Youth steeped in tradition

    Graham Dechter: Youth steeped in tradition

    Bill Charlap solo piano: Tradition, invention and wit

    Bill Charlap solo piano: Tradition, invention and wit

  • Catherine Russell: Keeping the family tradition alive

    Catherine Russell: Keeping the family tradition alive

    Curtis Stigers: Creating new jazz standards from contemporary

    Curtis Stigers: Creating new jazz standards from contemporary

  • Halie Loren: Putting Eugene, Ore. on the jazz map

    Halie Loren: Putting Eugene, Ore. on the jazz map

    Bela Fleck & Marcus Roberts Trio ‘Crossing the Imaginary Divide’

    Bela Fleck & Marcus Roberts Trio ‘Crossing the Imaginary Divide’

  • Cyrus Chestnut: Solo piano with ‘The Nutman’

    Cyrus Chestnut: Solo piano with ‘The Nutman’

    Bellingham vocalist Cheryl Jewell: Coming home to jazz

    Bellingham vocalist Cheryl Jewell: Coming home to jazz

  • Karrin Allyson: Relaxin’ in the Jazz24/KPLU studios

    Karrin Allyson: Relaxin’ in the Jazz24/KPLU studios

    A rare solo performance by Ramsey Lewis

    A rare solo performance by Ramsey Lewis

  • The Cookers: Bebop supergroup

    The Cookers: Bebop supergroup

    All-Star Trio: Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea and Stanley Clark

    All-Star Trio: Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea and Stanley Clark

  • Blues singer Janiva Magness takes the next step

    Blues singer Janiva Magness takes the next step

    The Tierney Sutton Band: A true group effort

    The Tierney Sutton Band: A true group effort

  • Christian McBride Live in the Jazz24 Studios

    Christian McBride Live in the Jazz24 Studios

    Lynne Arriale Live in the Jazz24 Studios

    Lynne Arriale Live in the Jazz24 Studios

  • Benny Golson: Bringing the hits

    Benny Golson: Bringing the hits

    Kim Wilson delivers a blues smackdown in the Jazz24 studios

    Kim Wilson delivers a blues smackdown in the Jazz24 studios

  • Arturo Sandoval: Happy, with a heart full of music

    Arturo Sandoval: Happy, with a heart full of music

    A rare visit to the Jazz24 Studios: Jazz piano legend Chick Corea

    A rare visit to the Jazz24 Studios: Jazz piano legend Chick Corea

  • Sophie Milman: A young jazz singer on the move

    Sophie Milman: A young jazz singer on the move

    Grace Kelly: ‘Unimaginably Inappropriate’

    Grace Kelly: ‘Unimaginably Inappropriate’

  • John Scofield: Exploring ballads (and the nature of ‘cool’)

    John Scofield: Exploring ballads (and the nature of ‘cool’)

    The Jazz Crusaders: Putting the ‘Jazz’ back into the ‘Crusaders’

    The Jazz Crusaders: Putting the ‘Jazz’ back into the ‘Crusaders’

From NPR Music

Profiles, features, concerts and studio sessions from across the country.

  • Terence Blanchard Turns A Tragic Champion Into An Opera Hero

    Terence Blanchard Turns A Tragic Champion Into An Opera Hero

    Two Generations Of Jazz Guitar Tune Up For Father’s Day

    Two Generations Of Jazz Guitar Tune Up For Father’s Day

  • NO BS! Brass Band: Tiny Desk Concert

    NO BS! Brass Band: Tiny Desk Concert

    Cynthia Sayer On Piano Jazz

    Cynthia Sayer On Piano Jazz

  • Reflections On A Dozen Years With Abbey Lincoln

    Reflections On A Dozen Years With Abbey Lincoln

    Janis Siegel On Piano Jazz

    Janis Siegel On Piano Jazz

  • Johnny Smith, Revered Guitar Player, Has Died

    Johnny Smith, Revered Guitar Player, Has Died

    José James On World Cafe

    José James On World Cafe

  • The Bridge Trio: Live From 92Y Tribeca

    The Bridge Trio: Live From 92Y Tribeca

    Don Byron + The Bridge Trio: Live From 92Y Tribeca

    Don Byron + The Bridge Trio: Live From 92Y Tribeca

  • Clare Fischer On Piano Jazz

    Clare Fischer On Piano Jazz

    Remembering Mulgrew Miller On JazzSet

    Remembering Mulgrew Miller On JazzSet

  • Brandee Younger: Taxidermy, Two-Headed Skeletons And Jazz Harp

    Brandee Younger: Taxidermy, Two-Headed Skeletons And Jazz Harp

    Christian McBride: Music Is About People, Not Grammys

    Christian McBride: Music Is About People, Not Grammys

  • Marissa Mulder On Piano Jazz

    Marissa Mulder On Piano Jazz

    Ben Tucker: Remembering A Bassist And Citywide Icon

    Ben Tucker: Remembering A Bassist And Citywide Icon

  • Madeleine Peyroux On World Cafe

    Madeleine Peyroux On World Cafe

    Authentic Early Jazz, From A 23-Year-Old ‘WomanChild’

    Authentic Early Jazz, From A 23-Year-Old ‘WomanChild’

  • Linda Oh On Piano Jazz

    Linda Oh On Piano Jazz

    Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale On ‘Song Travels’

    Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale On ‘Song Travels’

  • Kenny Barron Quintet: Live At The Village Vanguard

    Kenny Barron Quintet: Live At The Village Vanguard

    Bela Fleck On Piano Jazz

    Bela Fleck On Piano Jazz

  • Kenny Barron And Dave Holland On JazzSet

    Kenny Barron And Dave Holland On JazzSet

    Jazz Pianist And Pedagogue Mulgrew Miller Dies

    Jazz Pianist And Pedagogue Mulgrew Miller Dies

  • Keith Jarrett: ‘I Want The Imperfections To Remain’

    Keith Jarrett: ‘I Want The Imperfections To Remain’

    Rites Of Swing: Jazz And Stravinsky

    Rites Of Swing: Jazz And Stravinsky

  • Why Jazz Musicians Love ‘The Rite Of Spring’

    Why Jazz Musicians Love ‘The Rite Of Spring’

    Cécile McClorin Salvant On Piano Jazz

    Cécile McClorin Salvant On Piano Jazz

  • Duke Ellington: Highlights Of His Twilight

    Duke Ellington: Highlights Of His Twilight

    Chris Potter Quartet On JazzSet

    Chris Potter Quartet On JazzSet

  • Pat Metheny And John Zorn: A Vivid Sound World

    Pat Metheny And John Zorn: A Vivid Sound World

    Sarah Vaughan: A New Box Set Revels In Glorious Imperfections

    Sarah Vaughan: A New Box Set Revels In Glorious Imperfections

  • Rudresh Mahanthappa On Piano Jazz

    Rudresh Mahanthappa On Piano Jazz

    Edmar Castañeda And Friends On JazzSet

    Edmar Castañeda And Friends On JazzSet

Features from Jazz24

Jazz features from Jazz24 and sister station KPLU's on-air personalities.

  • Popping And Bopping: The Electric Bass In Jazz

    Popping And Bopping: The Electric Bass In Jazz

    Jazz April Birthday:  Charles Mingus

    Jazz April Birthday: Charles Mingus

  • Jazz Salutes Its Disc Jockeys

    Jazz Salutes Its Disc Jockeys

    Jazz April Birthday:  Buster Williams

    Jazz April Birthday: Buster Williams

  • Jazz April Birthday:  Herbie Mann

    Jazz April Birthday: Herbie Mann

    Yip Harburg: A Lyricist For The Ages

    Yip Harburg: A Lyricist For The Ages

  • A List Of 5 Songs About … Lists

    A List Of 5 Songs About … Lists

    Cold Weather Blues: 5 songs that feel your mid-winter pain

    Cold Weather Blues: 5 songs that feel your mid-winter pain

  • Dr. Martin Luther King on the Importance of Jazz

    Dr. Martin Luther King on the Importance of Jazz

    Coleman Hawkins: Tenor Saxophone, Front And Center

    Coleman Hawkins: Tenor Saxophone, Front And Center

  • Django’s Legacy: 21st-Century Gypsy Jazz

    Django’s Legacy: 21st-Century Gypsy Jazz

    Cannonball Adderley: 5 Songs From A Joyous Soul

    Cannonball Adderley: 5 Songs From A Joyous Soul

  • Jazz Goes Honky-Tonkin’: The Songs Of Hank Williams

    Jazz Goes Honky-Tonkin’: The Songs Of Hank Williams

    Ahmad Jamal: Still Fearless And Innovative At 82

    Ahmad Jamal: Still Fearless And Innovative At 82

  • Jack DeJohnette: 70 Years Of Propulsive, Percussive Mastery

    Jack DeJohnette: 70 Years Of Propulsive, Percussive Mastery

    Dick Hyman: A Living, Breathing Encyclopedia Of Jazz

    Dick Hyman: A Living, Breathing Encyclopedia Of Jazz

  • Max Roach: Drums, Front And Center

    Max Roach: Drums, Front And Center

    Top 5 Jazz Vocal Performances Of 2011

    Top 5 Jazz Vocal Performances Of 2011

  • Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith: Stride Piano’s Uptown Ruler

    Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith: Stride Piano’s Uptown Ruler

    Five Titans Of Texas Tenor Sax

    Five Titans Of Texas Tenor Sax

  • Five Texas Bluesmen Who Paved The Way For Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Five Texas Bluesmen Who Paved The Way For Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Puttin’ On The Witz: 5 Funny Jazz Songs

    Puttin’ On The Witz: 5 Funny Jazz Songs

  • Go Green For St. Patrick’s Day

    Go Green For St. Patrick’s Day

    The Music Of Mardi Gras: History You Can Dance To

    The Music Of Mardi Gras: History You Can Dance To

  • Tadd Dameron: Bebop Romanticist

    Tadd Dameron: Bebop Romanticist

    Dragging The Blues Into The 21st Century

    Dragging The Blues Into The 21st Century

  • 5 Depressing Blues Songs For Christmas

    5 Depressing Blues Songs For Christmas

    Phil Woods: Bebop’s New Bird

    Phil Woods: Bebop’s New Bird

The Blues Time Machine

Each week on Jazz24's sister station KPLU, All Blues host John Kessler tracks one great blues song through time.

  • ‘All Your Love’ tracked through time

    ‘All Your Love’ tracked through time

    John Henry’s Legend Lives Through Music

    John Henry’s Legend Lives Through Music

  • ‘Bring it on Home,’ the long way through time

    ‘Bring it on Home,’ the long way through time

    ‘High Water Everywhere’ and the father of Delta Blues

    ‘High Water Everywhere’ and the father of Delta Blues

  • Early blues with fife & drum

    Early blues with fife & drum

    Obscure origins of ‘You Don’t Love Me’

    Obscure origins of ‘You Don’t Love Me’

  • Bo Diddley’s ‘Before You Accuse Me’ influential as the master

    Bo Diddley’s ‘Before You Accuse Me’ influential as the master

    ‘Another Man Done Gone’ – a powerful tale of woe on a chain gang

    ‘Another Man Done Gone’ – a powerful tale of woe on a chain gang

  • ‘Somebody’s got to go’ – the path from from blues to rap

    ‘Somebody’s got to go’ – the path from from blues to rap

    ‘Back Door Man’ – good blues is rarely about behaving yourself

    ‘Back Door Man’ – good blues is rarely about behaving yourself

  • Waters’ ‘Trouble No More’ came out of Estes’ ‘Someday Baby Blues’

    Waters’ ‘Trouble No More’ came out of Estes’ ‘Someday Baby Blues’

    ‘Walkin’ Blues’ still has legs

    ‘Walkin’ Blues’ still has legs

  • ‘Early in the Morning’ – samba, rumba and history

    ‘Early in the Morning’ – samba, rumba and history

    Still a mystery who wrote ‘One Way Out’

    Still a mystery who wrote ‘One Way Out’

  • The long flight of Muddy’s ‘Honey Bee’

    The long flight of Muddy’s ‘Honey Bee’

    Many rivers converged to make a New Orleans classic: ‘Iko Iko’

    Many rivers converged to make a New Orleans classic: ‘Iko Iko’

  • ‘Shake ‘Em On Down’ created the cutting edge for blues

    ‘Shake ‘Em On Down’ created the cutting edge for blues

    ‘That’s All Right’ and the father of rock and roll

    ‘That’s All Right’ and the father of rock and roll

  • Little Walter’s ‘Mellow Down Easy’ rips through time

    Little Walter’s ‘Mellow Down Easy’ rips through time

    Hendrix inspired by Earl King’s ‘Come On’

    Hendrix inspired by Earl King’s ‘Come On’

  • ‘Black Rat’ comes from the most powerful singer to walk the Earth

    ‘Black Rat’ comes from the most powerful singer to walk the Earth

    “Going Up The Country” and the roots of the Blues

    “Going Up The Country” and the roots of the Blues

  • Blind Willie Johnson cared about ‘The Soul of a Man,’ others dug the music

    Blind Willie Johnson cared about ‘The Soul of a Man,’ others dug the music

    ‘Dust My Broom’ sets the standard for blues guitar

    ‘Dust My Broom’ sets the standard for blues guitar

  • ‘Help Me’ goes from blues to alt-rock

    ‘Help Me’ goes from blues to alt-rock

    ‘Mercy, Mercy’ and young Hendrix showcase the rhythm in R&B

    ‘Mercy, Mercy’ and young Hendrix showcase the rhythm in R&B

  • Just a ‘Spoonful’ of blues … and the rest is history

    Just a ‘Spoonful’ of blues … and the rest is history

    Everybody’s got the ‘Fever,’ but Peggy Lee’s got it bad

    Everybody’s got the ‘Fever,’ but Peggy Lee’s got it bad

  • “Kokomo Blues” among the roots of “Sweet Home Chicago”

    “Kokomo Blues” among the roots of “Sweet Home Chicago”

    Following “Blues With a Feeling” through cutting-edge changes

    Following “Blues With a Feeling” through cutting-edge changes

  • “Eyesight To The Blind” and the Rock Opera “Tommy”

    “Eyesight To The Blind” and the Rock Opera “Tommy”

    “Traveling Riverside Blues” and the Roots of Led Zeppelin

    “Traveling Riverside Blues” and the Roots of Led Zeppelin

  • The Piedmont Blues of “Crow Jane”

    The Piedmont Blues of “Crow Jane”

    “Sitting On Top Of The World” with the Mississippi Sheiks

    “Sitting On Top Of The World” with the Mississippi Sheiks

Groove Notes Jazz Blog

Jazz24 and KPLU host, Kevin Kniestedt examines and discusses all things jazz.

  • Robin Lloyd reviews the film “The Girls in the Band”

    Robin Lloyd reviews the film “The Girls in the Band”

    1,000 Jazz Albums You Should Hear Before You Die – The Complete List

    1,000 Jazz Albums You Should Hear Before You Die – The Complete List

  • Resolutions for jazz in the new year

    Resolutions for jazz in the new year

    In Memoriam – Remembering jazz musicians who died in 2012

    In Memoriam – Remembering jazz musicians who died in 2012

  • Passing of Dave Brubeck Leaves Impact on Many

    Passing of Dave Brubeck Leaves Impact on Many

    10 Best Jazz Albums of 2012

    10 Best Jazz Albums of 2012

  • Latin Jazz nominees for tonight’s Latin Grammy Awards

    Latin Jazz nominees for tonight’s Latin Grammy Awards

    John Coltrane picture book Introduces kids to jazz icon

    John Coltrane picture book Introduces kids to jazz icon

  • Poncho Sanchez to receive Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

    Poncho Sanchez to receive Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

    Trumpeter Terence Blanchard finishes opera set to debut next June

    Trumpeter Terence Blanchard finishes opera set to debut next June

  • Hearing, more than smell, brings (my) memories to life

    Hearing, more than smell, brings (my) memories to life

    New Miles Davis stamp released today

    New Miles Davis stamp released today

  • Knowledge and versatility the key to success for bassist James Genus

    Knowledge and versatility the key to success for bassist James Genus

    New Book: Marc Meyers “Why Jazz Happened”

    New Book: Marc Meyers “Why Jazz Happened”

  • 38th annual Jazz Record Collectors Bash arrives in June

    38th annual Jazz Record Collectors Bash arrives in June

    One of Louis Armstrong’s final performances (and favorite recipes) to be released this month

    One of Louis Armstrong’s final performances (and favorite recipes) to be released this month

  • One of Louis Armstrong’s final performances (favorite recipes) out this month

    One of Louis Armstrong’s final performances (favorite recipes) out this month

    Commentary: Enough with the search for a ‘Jazz Savior’

    Commentary: Enough with the search for a ‘Jazz Savior’

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