Silke Eberhard

Being-A-Ning

By Silke Eberhard

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: What's In Your Bag; Golden Fish; Sao; Hans Im Gl��ck; New Dance; Stranger Bossa; Being-A-Ning; Lake; Die Urwald II; Rubber Boots.

Amoeba's Dance

By Silke Eberhard

Label: Trouble In The East Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dactylopodial; Polytactic; Reticulate; Orthotactic; Palmate; Monotactic; Rhizomonotactic; Rugose; Striate; Lingulate; Spineolate; Acanthopodian; Fan-Shaped / Lanceolate; Mayorellian; Paramoebian; Flabellate; Paraflabellulian; Vexilliferian.

Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-A-Ning

by John Sharpe
August 31, 2025

Adventurous German saxophonist Silke Eberhard has long favored the trio format as a proving ground, even as she splits her time with her larger Potsa Lotsa ensemble, and other projects. With bassist Jan Roder and drummer Kay Lübke, she has cultivated a rapport that feels both intuitive and restless. Being-A-Ning, the group's fifth release--each one bearing ...

Potsa Lotsa XL: Amoeba's Dance

by Ian Patterson
August 11, 2025

Like an amoeba, whose shape-shifting properties enable it to adapt to its surroundings, Silke Eberhard's Potsa Lotsa expands and contracts according to its needs. Originating as a four-horn ensemble inspired by the music of multi-instrumentalist/composer Eric Dolphy, Potsa Lotsa blasted off with Potsa Lotsa: The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010). An auspicious debut, Eberhard's ...

A Few Of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things (So Far), Part 6

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 30, 2025

Here's the final part of our retrospective focusing on the tracks from the first half of 2025 that have sparked our imagination and set the tone for the rest of the year. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Silke Eberhard Trio “New Dance" ...

Silke Eberhard, Artchipel Orchestra, ICP Orchestra, Jasper Blom & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 10, 2025

Enjoy a playlist featuring large ensembles of various shapes and sounds, the music and spirit of Misha Mengelberg and the versatility of Silke Eberhard. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jasper Blom “White Stripes" Multipolarity (Whirlwind) 0:16 Host speaks 9:17 Artchipel Orchestra “Anatole" ...

Silke Eberhard Trio with Jan Roder and Kay L��bke: Being-A-Ning

by Mark Corroto
May 6, 2025

It is rare to describe an audio recording as brave, but that is precisely what the latest release by the Silke Eberhard Trio is--bold, fearless, and unflinchingly original. Being-A-Ning, the group's fifth album, borrows its title from Thelonious Monk's “Rhythm-A-Ning," nodding to the jazz giant while continuing the trio's thematic naming convention. Previous albums--Being (2008) and ...

Felix Henkelhausen, Ochs / Morris / Downs & German Jazz Prize Nominees

by Maurice Hogue
April 14, 2025

Listening to a tune by German bassist Felix Henkelhausen while traveling in the car led me to check out what he was up to; I discovered he's been nominated for a 2025 German Jazz Prize in the Album of the Year category for Deranged Particles. Soon I was exploring other nominees and that led to incorporating ...

Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Silke Eberhard & Yannick Peeters

by Maurice Hogue
March 10, 2025

Time to celebrate the women of today's creative jazz and at the same time recognize International Women's Day. New releases include Bone Bells from the magical duo of pianist Sylvie Courvoisier & guitarist Mary Halvorson, Being A Ning from German saxophonist Silke Eberhard's killin' trio, and Italian bassist Silvia Bolognesi's Jungle Duke which explores the music ...