Marcus Belgrave will be honored with the 2009 Jazz Guardian Award for Artistry at the 30th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival on Labor Day Weekend!
2009 Jazz Guardian Award for Artistry

Honorably Designated "Jazz Master Laureate" for the CITY OF DETROIT !!!!!
Link: www.today.com/view/detroit-jewel-marcus-belgrave/id-2883564/ - 19k

Marcus Belgrave recorded with, and … considered by Stevie Wonder’
as one of his...“People of Wonder”.
Link: http://www.steviewonder.org.uk/people_of_wonder.htm

"He's a treasure, producing a golden tone and lyric bursts of spidery ideas that coalesce in gorgeous paragraphs of melody."
-Mark Stryker, Free Press music critic - November 29, 2008

"Belgrave sets the mood and tone…. "haunting, lyrical" "sensual trumpet melodies"
-Jim Santella" - jazzreview.com

"trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, a secret master of the music."
By Richard Scheinin-San Jos Mercury News

"There was Belgrave…. fluent, inventive, hard-bop statements…. high register squeals"
By Leonard Turnevicius - The Hamilton Spectator -(Ontario)

"Mr. Belgrave, well known as a teacher but still underrated as a
performer, played subtle, wide and logical solos on trumpet and fluegelhorn
that were like compressed pieces of wisdom"
Monday, June 23, 2008 JVC Jazz Festival
-BEN RATLIFF- The New York Times

On playing with David "Fathead" Newman. Where: Iridium Jazz Club, New York:
"bold-toned trumpeter Marcus Belgrave. Belgrave's rhythmically charged
thoughts stood out.."
-Zan Stewart, The Star-Ledger - New York

Marcus Belgrave Presents A Tribute to New Orleans, Ray Charles, and the Great Ladies of Song
"I have just one word to say: WOW!...The music is great…. The arrangements are fabulous …….a genuinely crowd-pleasing act…..I love it.…pizzazz and charm….glitter of a New York stage sprinkled all throughout it."
-Pete Fallico- KKUP Radio -Santa Cruz, Ca, KCSM Radio -San Mateo, CA

“Joyously putting his own spin on Pop’s greatest hits ... referencing classic original trumpet solos with enough sincerity and surprising turns that the music comes off fresh”
-The Detroit Free Press

"…. to catch Belgrave performing with his touring band….. was to gain new appreciation for his work…Belgrave's easygoing tempos, fervent lyricism”and raspy vocals…. puckish vocal phrasings and mercurial trumpet lines.. Belgrave took pains to share the spotlight with his band, which turned in some of its most exemplary playing in early Duke Ellington"

“New Orleans mind-set flows smoothly in heart of Chicago”
By Howard Reich | Tribune arts critic