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Office:
Hales Gym
Office Phone:
(440) 775-6675
Address:
180 W. Lorain St.
Oberlin, OH 44074

Visit Also:
Jazz Trumpet Professor Marcus Belgrave Honored
with Benny Golson Jazz Master Award

Beauty Surrounds Us: Works by members of the Oberlin Conservatory Jazz Faculty

Mr. Belgrave’s Personal Web Site

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Division of Jazz Studies

Marcus Belgrave
Visiting Professor of Jazz Trumpet

Background:

  • Co-founder of the jazz studies program at the Detroit Metro Arts Complex
  • Original faculty member of the Oakland University jazz studies program
  • Founder of the Jazz Development Workship in Detroit
  • Performances with:
    Ray Charles, Max Roach, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Dizzy Gillespie.

    Awards:

  • Arts Midwest's Jazz Master Award (1991)
  • Michigan Governor's Arts Award (1994)
  • Louis Armstrong Award (1995)
  • Recordings:
    More than 30 recordings, including:

  • Working Together (Detroit Jazz Musicians Co-op Productions)
  • Phantom with Horace Tapscott (Arabesque)
  • Hub Art (Hip Hop)
  • The Nurturer with Geri Allen (Blue Note)
  • The Best of Ray Charles (Atlantic)
  • Jazz at Lincoln Center (Columbia)
  •  
    Marcus Belgrave Presents (Detroit Jazz Musicians Co-Op, 2006)
     
    Gemini II (Detroit Jazz Musicians Co-Op, 1975)
     
    Marcus Belgrave and Detroit's Jazz Piano Legacy, Vol.1: Live at Kerrytown Concert House (Detroit Jazz Musicians Co-Op, 1993)
     
    Working Together (Detroit Jazz Musicians Co-Op, 1992)

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