MARCUS SHELBY

Progressive Big Band / Hard Bop / Third Stream / Post Bop / Big Band • United States
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Marcus Anthony Shelby is an accomplished teacher, composer, arranger, and bassist who currently lives in San Francisco, California. Over the past 24 years, he has built a diverse biography. From 1990-1996, Shelby was bandleader of Columbia Records and GRP Impulse! Recording Artists Black/Note and is currently the Artistic Director and leader of The Marcus Shelby Orchestra. Shelby was awarded a 2009 Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship in Chicago for summer 2009 to conduct research for his commission to compose “Soul of the Movement”—a 12 part musical suite on MLK and the Civil Rights Movement. Shelby was also a 2006 Fellow in the Resident Dialogues Program of the Committee for Black Performing Arts at Stanford University to conduct research for his commission to compose “Harriet Tubman”. Shelby has also worked extensively in Bay Area Theater and dance composing scores for Margo Hall’s “Bebop Baby” and “Sonny’s Blues”, and Joanna Haigood’s dance theater read more...
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MARCUS SHELBY Marcus Shelby Trio ‎: Un Faux Pas ! - One False Move album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Marcus Shelby Trio ‎: Un Faux Pas ! - One False Move
Hard Bop 1997
MARCUS SHELBY Sophisticate album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sophisticate
Hard Bop 1998
MARCUS SHELBY Midtown Sunset album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Midtown Sunset
Progressive Big Band 1998
MARCUS SHELBY Intimate Strangers album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Intimate Strangers
Post Bop 1998
MARCUS SHELBY The Lights Suite album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Lights Suite
Progressive Big Band 2001
MARCUS SHELBY Port Chicago album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Port Chicago
Progressive Big Band 2006
MARCUS SHELBY Harriet Tubman album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Harriet Tubman
Third Stream 2008
MARCUS SHELBY Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Progressive Big Band 2010
MARCUS SHELBY Marcus Shelby Orchestra : Transitions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Marcus Shelby Orchestra : Transitions
Big Band 2019

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