NEA Jazz Master, Two-time EMMY and Oscar Nominee, Eight-time GRAMMY® winning trumpeter & composer Terence Blanchard has established himself as the quintessential 21st Century Renaissance man. In celebration of the centennial of human rights and civil rights icon Malcolm X, Blanchard, his band, The E-Collective, which is comprised of Charles Altura on guitar, Julian Pollock on piano and synthesizers, Oscar Seaton on drums, and David “DJ” Ginyard on bass, and Two-time GRAMMY® winning Turtle Island Quartet will reprise Blanchard’s iconic Malcolm X Jazz Suite.

The original project was created following the release and subsequent critical acclaim of Spike Lee’s 1992 Film Malcolm X, for which Blanchard wrote the score and performed most of the trumpet cues. The Jazz Suite, then, was a resetting of Blanchard’s own score from the film for his quintet. This updated expansion of instrumentation will offer an updated look at work that has thrilled Blanchard’s fans and rippled through all of his subsequent recordings for the last three decades.