Click on the titles below for excerpts from various recordings.

Jennifer Graham: "Don't Mean A Thing" (featuring Ron Cooper)
(soon to be released)


Von Freeman: "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (drum solo)
from The Improviser; Premonition Records
(4½ stars Downbeat Magazine)

"Freeman is blessed to have found a drummer of Michael Raynor's gifts, for Raynor is a bold colorist and an ingenious time-maker."
-Chicago Tribune

Kurt Elling: "Don't Get Scared" (featuring Jon Hendricks)
from Live In Chicago (Blue Note Records, Grammy nominated)

"Drummer Michael Raynor provides the momentum for the group and Elling often uses him as a springboard into new territory."
-The Telegraph, Sydney, Australia

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