Terence Blanchard’s groundbreaking opera ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones,’ adapted for a chamber production, will be performed at SFJAZZ Aug. 6-7.
Trumpeter, bandleader and composer Terence Blanchard is bringing his opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” to SFJAZZ.Terence Blanchard often comes across as the Superman of American music, leaping across stylistic conventions and busting through long-barred doors while soaring to the top of each creative field he enters. But every superhero needs a sidekick, and when the New Orleans trumpeter set out to reconfigure his groundbreaking opera for a jazz setting, he knew just the cat to call.
Blanchard connected with Balakrishnan’s pioneering jazz string ensemble in early 2020 and the budding relationship quickly manifested on last year’s Blue Note album “Absence,” an homage to jazz legend Wayne Shorter . “The opera is acted, and we’re not going to do that. Andrew is creating these visuals that amplify the story while the music will accommodate a certain amount of looseness and riskiness,” he said. “It’s definitely new territory.”
Talking with Blanchard by video call from Spain, where he was touring with piano patriarch Herbie Hancock, he was still buzzing from the Emmy Award nomination for his score for the documentary “They Call Me Magic,” about basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson. He recently finished the music for the second season of the HBO series “Perry Mason” and has several other film projects in the works.
“I needed to be able to sit with it and take it all the way in,” he said, noting that the challenge in boiling down a 180-minute work to less than an hour was “presenting this as a narrative rather than just some of the arias. And we do create the feel of the storyline within a jazz concert.”
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