This movement is about family, life and love. It depicts the soulfulness of composer Marcus Printup's family driving him from their home in Georgia to Florida where Marcus would be attending the University
The Journey Suite is a musical depiction of composer Marcus Printup's first days as a college student in the newly implemented Jazz Performance program at the University of North Florida. In four
University of North Florida's Big Band Director Rich Matteson shares with the big band students his story of meeting Louis Armstrong. Rich asked Louis how he breathed life into music so effortlessly. Pops
Composer Marcus Printup fondly remembers the very first day of college. The Big Band had a jam session where everyone sized each other up as though it were a boxing match .... a musical, friendly match!
Dedicated to the composer's Middle School Band Director, the late Bishop David Hudson.
After playing Impressions, by John Coltrane, the University of North Florida's Big Band Director, the incomparable Rich Matteson, challenges his students. Rich tells them, "Now that you've