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Breathless
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THE century-long and continuing campaign of jazz against racism has its most recent recorded expression in the new album by the seasoned New Orleans trumpeter (born 1962) Terence Blanchard, called simply and evocatively, Breathless.
Blanchard is a veteran of composing film scores, such as those of Spike Lee and the biopic of Malcolm X, but he has also recorded music that is a pungent criticism of official policy towards those whose lives were shattered in his home city by Hurricane Katrina.
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