Never have the New Orleans-based trumpeter Terence Blanchard's dual careers — as jazz bandleader and film composer — dovetailed with such purpose as on A Tale of God's Will. This ''Requiem for Katrina'' blends his score for Spike Lee's doc When the Levees Broke with new music. Accompanied by an orchestra, Blanchard's quintet moves elegantly from African rhythms to modern swing to balladic repose, his horn's curled pleas and soaring declarations channeling both pain and resilience. It's the Katrina story CNN can't tell, masterfully told. A-
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