"Marcus Belgrave" is a jazz trumpet player from Detroit, born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He has recorded with a variety of famous musicians, bandleaders, and record labels since the 1950s.

Belgrave was tutored by Clifford Brown before joining the Ray Charles touring band. He later worked with Gunther Schuller, Carl Craig, Max Roach, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, La Palabra (musician)/La Palabra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dizzy Gillespie and John Sinclair (musician)/John Sinclair, amongst others.

Belgrave is a frequent faculty member at Stanford Jazz Workshop and is currently visiting professor of jazz trumpet at the Oberlin Conservatory. Among Belgrave's students are Rodney Whitaker, Kenny Garrett, Robert Hurst (musician)/Robert Hurst, Regina Carter, James Carter (musician)/James Carter, Geri Allen, Karriem Riggins, Kasan Belgrave and Carlos McKinney.

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You could hear any sort of music all day long in New Orleans. But we won't really know for a while, the full effect. It really is a shame, and hopefully they will recover.

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It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing with Ray Charles. It didn't make a difference if he was playing jazz, soul, R&B, pop or country. And it was always about the blues and the feelings he portrayed. The blues is awfully powerful.

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The first time I sat in, I got through the whole tune before Ray got out of the fourth bar.

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