Joan Belgrave performs “Oooo Boy”

She is a singer-songwriter from Detroit who has released albums as a soloist, along with jazz collaborations with her late husband Marcus Belgrave. Now Joan Belgrave has a new EP out to get you in a groove and inspire you.

DETROIT - Late jazz trumpeting great Marcus Belgrave will be honored with a stretch of downtown Detroit street ceremonially renamed in his honor. Belgraves name will grace a block of Randolph Street where it abuts Madison Avenue, which also takes the name Aretha Franklin Boulevard. Belgrave, who died in 2015, played with Franklin in her early days. The sign will be unveiled Thursday before the launch of the Detroit Jazz Festival . Singer Joan Belgrave says in a statement she worked for two years on the effort on behalf of her late husband. Belgrave also served as a professor or visiting artist at numerous institutions, including Detroit-area schools and Michigan State University.