• Source: Marcus Shelby

      • Marcus Shelby (born February 2, 1966, in Anchorage, Alaska) is an American bass player, composer and educator best known for his major works for jazz orchestra, Port Chicago, Harriet Tubman, Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Beyond the Blues: A Prison Oratorio. He has led the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra since 2001 and has recorded with artists as diverse as Ledisi and Tom Waits.
      He has contributed numerous musical compositions to works created in collaboration with dance ensembles and theater artists ranging from California Shakespeare Theater to Intersection for the Arts.


      Background



      When Shelby was five, his family moved from Memphis, Tennessee, to Sacramento, California. Shelby played double bass briefly as a teen, but abandoned music until 1988, when he attended a Wynton Marsalis concert with his father, which inspired him to rededicate himself to music.
      Shelby moved to Los Angeles and began working with drummer Billy Higgins. After winning the Charles Mingus Scholarship in 1991 he studied music at California Institute of the Arts with Higgins, composer James Newton, and Charlie Haden.
      From 1991 to 1996 he recorded and toured with Black/Note (credited as Mark Shelby), a hard bop group based in Los Angeles.
      When Black/Note broke up in 1996, he moved to San Francisco because he "had seen groups like Broun Fellinis" whose tenor saxophonist of the time, David Boyce, "was playing a totally different style", and he felt a need to grow. There he founded the Marcus Shelby Trio and the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra. He has served as Artist in Residence at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Composer in Residence at Intersection for the Arts.
      In 2013, Shelby was appointed to the San Francisco Arts Commission.
      Shelby is a long-time faculty member at the San Francisco Community Music Center.
      Marcus has two daughters.


      Major works


      2002: Port Chicago, 14-movement suite for jazz orchestra
      2007: Harriet Tubman, oratorio for voice and jazz orchestra
      2011: Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
      2015: Beyond the Blues: A Prison Oratorio


      Discography




      = With Black/Note

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      1991: 43rd & Degnan (World Stage)
      1994: Jungle Music (Columbia / Sony Music Distribution)
      1994: L.A. Underground (RED Distribution)
      1996: Nothin' But the Swing (Impulse! / GRP)


      = As leader

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      1997: Un Faux Pas!, Marcus Shelby Trio (Noir)
      1998: Midtown Sunset, Marcus Shelby and the Jazzantiqua Music Ensemble (Noir)
      1998: Sophisticate, Marcus Shelby Trio (Noir)
      2001: The Lights Suite, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra (Noir)
      2006: Port Chicago, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra (Noir)
      2008: Harriet Tubman, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra (Noir)
      2011: Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra (Porto Franco)


      = As sideman/contributor

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      1994: Judgement, Robert Stewart
      1996: Flow, Faye Carol
      1998: Mortyfied, New Morty Show
      1998: Intimate Strangers, Marcus Poston
      2004: Too Good to Be True, Buford Powers
      2005: First Pitch Swinging, Danny Grewen
      2006: It's a Good Thing, Jamie Davis
      2006: Blue Divine, Tammy Hall
      2007: The Shotgun Wedding Quintet, The Shotgun Wedding Quintet
      2007: The Code, John Calloway
      2007: 12 Gates to the City, Howard Wiley
      2008: Extraordinary Rendition, Rupa & the April Fishes
      2010: On a Day Like This..., Meklit Hadero
      2011: Bad as Me, Tom Waits


      Select collaborations


      1993–2006 Musical Director, Jazz Antiqua Music and Dance Ensemble
      1998–2004: Savage Jazz Dance Company, Musical Director
      2014: The Legacy of Duke Ellington: 50 Years of Swing! with California Shakespeare Theater
      2015: Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter with Anna Deavere Smith


      Awards, honors, and commissions


      1991: Charles Mingus Scholarship
      2000: Meet the Composer residency
      2000: Creative Work Fund commission
      2003: Equal Justice Society commission
      2005: Oakland Ballet commission
      2006: Fellow, Resident Dialogues Program of the Committee for Black Performing Arts, Stanford University
      2008: Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Best Original Music Score, Sonny's Blues
      2009: Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship


      References




      External links


      Official website
      Discography at AllMusic
      All About Jazz profile

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