Already five years, the JazzFestBrno Festival also hosts autumn concerts. This year, the American trumpet player and composer Terence Blanchard with E-Collective will perform in Brno for the first time. The second concert is provided by Cameroonian multi-instrumentalist Richard Bona and his band Richard Bona Group. Both concerts will take place at the Sono Center in Brno.
From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films ranging from the documentary 4 Little Girls to the epic Malcolm X, as well as his own discography of recordings such as A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),2018 USA Fellow and five-time Grammy-winning trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies – past and present. With his current quintet E-Collective he addresses the staggering cyclical epidemic of gun violence in this country with his new album Live, 7 powerful songs recorded live in concert that both reflect the bitter frustration of the conscious masses while also providing a balm of emotional healing. With a title that carries a pointed double meaning, the album is an impassioned continuation of the band’s GRAMMY-nominated 2015 studio recording, Breathless.
