New Orleans trumpeter/composer/bandleader
Terence Blanchard re-teamed with longtime collaborator
Spike Lee in 2006 for the thriller
Inside Man. The film, starring
Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster, follows a cat and mouse game between a philosophical bank robber and the detectives, lawyers, and bank officials that try and come between them.
Blanchard, who spent much of the recording of the movie taking care of property and family members in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, turns in one of his most powerful scores to date, utilizing the expansiveness of
Aaron Copland, the action motifs of
Hans Zimmer, and the emotionally charged experimentation of
Ennio Morricone to produce a work that is as playful and mischievous as it devastating and compelling. ~ James Christopher Monger