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. 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 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

With Roland Alexander
With Geri Allen
With Curtis Amy
With Joan Belgrave
With Hank Crawford
With George Gruntz
With Joe Henderson
With B.B. King
With Kirk Lightsey
With David Murray
With David "Fathead" Newman
With Cecil Payne
With Houston Person
With Horace Tapscott
With McCoy Tyner
With Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra