The second volume of "Blueprints" looks to the future with personal and musical discoveries. Featuring six original compositions along with jazz standards by McCoy Tyner, Sam Rivers and Frank Foster.

Jeff Cebulski of Chicago Jazz Magazine writes: "These days, sometimes people need something that entices them—no, forces them—to breathe deep and relax. Music is often one way to achieve that. In listening to trumpeter Markus Rutz’s second Blueprints album, Figure Two: New Designs, I realized Rutz and his band have provided a pleasing soundtrack to my need to defuse and wind down from the anxiety of the times, but without giving up my jazz imagination."