Genres Jazz Role Jazz trumpet player Name Marcus Belgrave | Instruments Trumpet Occupation(s) Musician Spouse Joan Belgrave (m. ?–2015) | |
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Birth name Marcus Batista Belgrave Born June 12, 1936
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States ( 1936-06-12 ) Origin Detroit, Michigan, United States Labels Detroit jazz musicians co-op Died May 24, 2015, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Children Kasan Belgrave, Marcus Belgrave Jr., Marcia Monroe, Akaua Belgrave Albums Marcus, Charlie & Joan.. Once Again Similar People Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Kirk Lightsey, Cecil Payne, Curtis Amy | ||
Marcus belgrave detroit s master trumpeter and mentor
Marcus Batista Belgrave (June 12, 1936 – May 24, 2015) was an American jazz trumpet player from Detroit, born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He recorded with numerous musicians from the 1950s onwards.
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- Marcus belgrave detroit s master trumpeter and mentor
- Marcus belgrave is an unsung jazz hero just ask any musician from detroit
- Biography
- As leader
- As sideman
- References
Marcus belgrave is an unsung jazz hero just ask any musician from detroit
Biography
Belgrave was tutored by Clifford Brown before joining the Ray Charles touring band. He later worked with Motown Records, and recorded with Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Gunther Schuller, Carl Craig, Max Roach, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, La Palabra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dizzy Gillespie, Odessa Harris and John Sinclair, plus more recently with his wife Joan Belgrave, amongst others.
Belgrave was an occasional faculty member at Stanford Jazz Workshop and a visiting professor of jazz trumpet at the Oberlin Conservatory.
Belgrave died on May 24,2015, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of heart failure, after being hospitalized since April with complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure.
As leader
As sideman
With Geri Allen
With Curtis Amy
With Joan Belgrave
With Hank Crawford
With George Gruntz
With Joe Henderson
With B.B. King
With David Murray
With David "Fathead" Newman
With Horace Tapscott
With McCoy Tyner
With Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra