"Why do We Let Them Hurt Us?" is the White-Reznichenko Quintet's debut album as a band.
White and Reznichenko’s harmonically and rhythmically complex compositions are executed beautifully by their highly experienced colleagues and give a look into the jazz of tomorrow.

Over the past few years, the quintet has developed a reputation for being an exciting live band. In late 2021, White and Reznichenko decided to build on their long years of collaboration by starting a new band with the in demand Jonas Westergaard (Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard) on bass, Peter Ehwald (Schultze-Ehwald-Rainey), winner of the 2026 German Jazz Prize on saxophone and the multiinstrumentalist John Schröder (der Rote Bereich, Chet Baker) on drums. In 2025, Norbert Krampf described the band as “the model for an ideal society” in the FAZ.
Funding from the Kunststiftung NRW enabled the band to spend two days in Weimar, where White lived and met most of the band members, and to record an album with the excellent engineer Friedrich Störmer.
“Why Do We Let Them Hurt Us?” is their first full-length album.