Name: Terence Blanchard: Malcolm X Jazz Suite
Start: 2025-12-05T20:00:00
Location: Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Terence Blanchard

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Turtle Island Quartet

Explosive yet graceful, touching yet playful—there’s no band quite like Pink Martini! Joined by the DSO and featuring the sensational Storm Large, this 12-musician ensemble delivers a genre-blurring performance that blends jazz, world music, and ’40s-’50s pop, taking audiences on a musical journey around the globe. With songs in 25 languages and over 3 million albums sold worldwide, Pink Martini returns to Orchestra Hall for an unforgettable evening.

Pink Martini

Terence Blanchard brings his band The E-Collective and the Turtle Island Quartet to reprise Blanchard’s iconic Malcolm X Jazz Suite. The first iteration of this project was created following the release of Spike Lee’s critically acclaimed 1992 Film Malcolm X, the Jazz Suite is a resetting of Blanchard’s own score from the film with his band. These new arrangements for his current band offer a fresh look at a work that has thrilled Blanchard’s fans and rippled through all his subsequent recordings for the last three decades.