Marcus Printup - The New Boogaloo - Winter Thoughts '2002/2017

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[5:50] 01. Marcus Printup - The Bullet Train
[5:30] 02. Marcus Printup - Sardinian Princess
[6:49] 03. Marcus Printup - The Weeping Prince (For Malcolm X)
[6:57] 04. Marcus Printup - The New Boogaloo
[5:51] 05. Marcus Printup - Soul Waltz
[7:18] 06. Marcus Printup - In A Sentimental Mood
[5:38] 07. Marcus Printup - Printupian Prance
[6:37] 08. Marcus Printup - The Inception
[6:40] 09. Marcus Printup - Speak Low
[7:46] 10. Marcus Printup - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

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AllMusic Review by Alex Henderson
The title The New Boogaloo has a strong soul-jazz connotation; it makes one
think of the type of groove-oriented, R&B-drenched jazz that improvisers like
Lou Donaldson, Pucho, Jack McDuff, and Charles Earland provided in the 60s and
early 70s. It brings to mind an era in which the soul-jazz organists who were
coming out of Philadelphia (the capitol of the Hammond B-3), Chicago, and New
York didnt hesitate to let you know that they held Sonny Rollins and the
Temptations in equally high regard. Recorded in November 2001, The New Boogaloo
is mildly funky retro-bop and does, in fact, recall the 60s. But this hard
bop/post-bop effort isnt R&B drenched. Trumpeter Marcus Printup doesnt feature
an Earland-like organist, and there are no soul-jazz interpretations of songs by
James Brown or the Isley Brothers. Instead, Printup delivers a CD that is
soulful in a Jazz Messengers/Horace Silver type of way -- hard swinging and full
of blues feeling, but not as overtly R&B-minded as Donaldsons Alligator Bogaloo
(just to give one example of a definitive 60s soul-jazz release). Heavily
influenced by the Blue Note sound of the early 60s, this album rests on the hard
bop/post-bop border; Printups material doesnt sound like it was recorded in 1952
but doesnt completely take the modal plunge (à la John Coltrane) either. No
one could honestly claim that Printup originals like Printupian Prance and Soul
Waltz are groundbreaking; like so many of the Young Lions who emerged in the 80s
and 90s, Printup is quite derivative. But hes also an expressive improviser and
a talented composer; to his credit, the big-toned trumpeter wrote seven of the
albums nine selections. The New Boogaloo is an enjoyable, if conventional, disc
that should appeal to die-hard fans of the Jazz Messengers/Horace Silver school
of hard bop and post-bop.

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