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🗓️ 6 April 2021
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Composer Terence Blanchard on the ‘magic and divine’ of working with Spike Lee.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
0:14.3 | Welcome to the treatment, the home edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
0:17.9 | My guests, who I haven't spoken to in a while, has composed since we last |
0:22.6 | spoke over 40 scores, basically every Spike Lee movie since 1990 something or another. I'm not |
0:29.4 | going to give the year because they'll give away how long we've known each other. Well, I'm thrilled |
0:32.3 | to have them here because if you think about albums such as one of my favorites of this century, |
0:37.3 | Breathless or a Tale of God's Will or one of my favorites of this century, Breathless, or a Tale of God's Will, |
0:39.7 | or another of my favorites, jazz and film with his incredible rendition of the Chinatown theme or |
0:45.1 | that in me of a murder. Terrence Blancher has so much to talk about. He's here, of course, |
0:51.4 | because he's for his second Oscar nomination, because you work for |
0:54.2 | Spike Lee for over 30 films. My guess is Oscar nominee, Terrence Blanchard. |
0:59.6 | How you doing? I'm so thrilled and get a chance to talk to you, man. You're here for |
1:03.4 | Oscar nominated for The Five Bloods, your latest collaboration on a Spike. And here's something I've always |
1:07.8 | wanted to ask you. I mean, because there's something about the spiritual in all of these scores you've done for Spike. At some point, there's a |
1:15.0 | melancholy that feels almost biblical to me because of what these characters are going through. |
1:19.8 | I just wonder if that's one of the things that you think about when you're doing these scores, |
1:22.8 | because it's almost signaled into five bloods at one point when these guys are launching for their voyage, |
1:28.3 | and we hear the horn to one of the boats on the river as they're heading out. |
1:32.3 | And that it's almost the same tone as you strike with a trumpet. |
1:35.3 | Well, it is. It is. It's part of that journey, man, from when I was a kid, you know, growing up in the church |
1:43.3 | and understanding, you know, what it in a church and understanding, you know, |
1:45.9 | what it meant to be an African American and then to think that here you have these guys |
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