Terence Blanchard: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

When he started to make the music that appears on his new album, trumpeter Terence Blanchard wasn t thinking of Eric Garner, Michael Brown or any of the other recent highprofile police killings of AfricanAmericans. He was thinking of desired collaborators: Donald Ramsey, a bassist and highschool classmate; Oscar Seaton, a drummer with whom he d worked on film projects; Fabian Almazan, the pianist of his other band; and Charles Altura, a guitarist he d encountered online. And he was thinking about a sound