Terence Blanchard Has Worked With Spike Lee for Decades and Still Gets Hyped
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“He just gives it to me and we go to work,” Terence Blanchard tells Observer of his decades-long working relationship with Spike Lee. The New Orleans-based composer has collaborated with Lee on numerous films, including this year`s Da Five Bloods, which is out now on Netflix. “It`s at a point now where we don`t really talk much,” he continues. “He`ll give me ideas about what he wants, but most of the time he wants strong melodic content so what we`ll talk about is whether there are some instruments we really want to feature in the orchestra. For BlackkKlansman he wanted some R&B sounds. For this film he said he wanted a huge orchestra. But after working with him for 30 years I know what...