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Drummer -led quartets are featured in the new releases this week:  Berlin’s Joe Hertenstein with Ray Anderson, Michael Formanek & Michael Moore; French drummer Raphael Pannier with Yosvanny Terry, Francois Moutin & Thomas Ehnco; Gert Jan Dreesen from Belgium with Bram DeLooze, Jean Paul Estievenart & Cyrille Obermuller; plus Slovenian Continue Reading

October 9, 2025 #1431   ——————–   A book about a bi-racial man passing as white, written by James Weldon Johnson, one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance and a key member of the civil right s movement, was the motivation for saxophonist Mark Turner’s latest release “Reflections on: The Continue Reading

Two albums debuting in this week’s edition of One Man’s Jazz are celebratory in nature. The wildly eclectic and powerful Dutch Ensemble Spinifex hits its 20-year mark with the release of “Maximus” next month, while the funkified, brass band-like, New Orleans flavoured Revolutionary Snake Ensemble’s “Serpentine” marks the 35th year Continue Reading