Marcus Printup has been a stalwart of Wynton Marsalis’ Lincoln Center Orchestra since its inception. This is his third album for Nils Winther’s Danish SteepleChase label with the very attractive, classically-trained harpist Riza Hequibal, whom he married a couple of years ago. Unlike my colleague Mike Flynn’s fiery favourite Edmar Castañeda, Riza is mostly into subtle, soft sounds with a special empathy for South American samba and bossa grooves. Marcus, by contrast, is – and always has been – a robust, basically ‘hot’ trumpet-player and brings a spark to even relatively dull material (like Carole King’s ‘You’ve Got a Friend’). He gives Jobim’s ‘One Note Samba’ a whole new look with his phrasing and fires on all cylinders in his own tune, ‘El Gato Travieso’ (a Puss in Boots) hyped up by some ferocious EJ drumming. The same goes for ‘Bee Dub Blues’, where he evokes the spirit of the often forgotten Roy Eldridge, which is a duet for trumpet and Ben Williams’ bass. Though Steve Wonder’s ‘Visions’ is a little too low key, his other song ‘I Can’t Help It’, with a hip hop groove, brings out soulful solos by both Printups. Of the other tracks, there’s a short treatment of a lesser-known Duke Ellington composition ‘Melancholia’ and Riza’s most recent original ‘Rebirth’, which augers well for some interesting future collaborations between the two.