The Being Inn (feat. Jan Roder & Kay Lübke)

Silke Eberhard Trio

It's no secret that reedist Silke Eberhard is a keen student of jazz history, a player whos einspiration routinely gets recharged by immersing herself in the music of her early heroes. For her that means more than listening to old records by the likes of Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and Ornette Coleman - but diving into that repertoire and reshaping it with novel instrumentation. But Eberhard makes it clear that the trio featured on The Being Inn is the context for which she always imagines her own material. ''I feel a lot of freedom with this group,'' she says of working with the bassist Jan Roder and drummer Kay Lubke. Although this particular group coalesced in 2006, her history with each player stretches back to the mid-90s and there's no missing the rapport ehy've all developed together. Eberhard and company make a conceptual leap on the album, with many of ht epieces tied to the titular conceptan imaginary inn the saxophonist pictured as she composed numerous times. She jokes that the spry opening track, ''Ding Dong,'' is the kind of number she likes to open one of the trio's sets with - ''a door bell,'' she calls it, although the first sounds we actually here are her footsteps leading toward a door that soon opens, inviting the listener in.

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