Young Marcus Belgrave This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. The Daily Times - News - 05/08/2005 - Gebhart: Even after 40 years, Delco duo makes beautiful music together

   www.dailylocal.com/site/news.c - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/1/2005   Last Visited: 5/8/2005

   Young Marcus Belgrave literally blew away the competition and won first prize.
   
   Both have traveled a long road from the Apollo Theater to that surprise reunion at the Italian Village.
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   When Belgrave was at Chester, he was practically a one-man brass section. Anyone who heard him knew he was headed for a far bigger stage. He did his time in the service and one night walked into the old Bel Air nightclub, long gone, on West Third Street near Dewey School. A very hot group was playing there, and Belgrave asked if he could sit in.
   
   The group leader liked what he heard and offered Belgrave a job on the spot. That's how Belgrave became a member of the great Ray Charles band.
   
   Belgrave is a professor of music at Oberlin College, which is sort of the Swarthmore College of Ohio. He lives in fashionable Grosse Pointe, near Detroit, still plays regularly on weekends and hits the road about half the year. That's how he happened to show up at the Italian Village.
   
   Belgrave was the featured performer at the Palm Beach (Fla.) Community College, doing a bit act called "The Louis Armstrong Tradition."
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   Carrenza and Belgrave go way back, too.