Marcus Belgrave


Marcus Batista Belgrave was an American jazz trumpet player from Detroit, born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He recorded with numerous musicians from the 1950s onwards. Belgrave was inducted into the class of 2017 of the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in Detroit, Michigan.

Biography

Belgrave was tutored by Clifford Brown before joining the Ray Charles touring band. Belgrave 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, among 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 23, 2015, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of heart failure, after being hospitalized since April with complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure.

Discography

As leader

  • Gemini II.
  • Working together, 1992
  • Live at Kerrytown Concert House, 1995
  • In the tradition
  • You don't know me – Tribute to New Orleans, Ray Charles and the Great Ladies of Song, 2006
  • Marcus, Charlie and Joan...Once again, 2008

    As sideman

With Roland Alexander
  • Pleasure Bent
With Geri Allen
With Curtis Amy
  • Way Down
With Joan Belgrave
With Hank Crawford
  • Dig These Blues
With George Gruntz
  • Theatre
With Joe Henderson
  • Big Band
With B.B. King
With Kirk Lightsey
  • Kirk 'n Marcus
  • Lightsey to Gladden
With David Murray
  • Black & Black
With David "Fathead" Newman
  • Fathead
  • Fathead Comes On
  • Resurgence!
With Cecil Payne
  • Scotch and Milk
With Houston Person
  • The Real Thing
With Horace Tapscott
  • Aiee! The Phantom
With McCoy Tyner
With Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
  • ''They Came To Swing ''