Terrance Blanchard is an American jazz trumpet player, composer, and bandleader whose music has helped to shape the sound of distress and anguish, but ultimately hope in the 21st century. His sound continues to evolve as he creates more moving and poignant pieces and soundtracks that speak to the discontent in America due to racial and economic inequality.

In this edition of Liner Notes, Rabbi and jazz historian Neil Blumofe, talks about how Blanchard can teach us to listen, not only to the music he creates, but to the feelings, sentiments and frustrations of the times in which we live.

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