I Have the Room Above Her is an album by American jazz drummer Paul Motian recorded for ECM in April 2004 released on January 24, 2005.
The trio features guitarist Bill Frisell and tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, their first release since At the Village Vanguard in 1995.
[2] The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states, "I Have the Room Above Her is exactly what one would expect from Motian, a painstakingly realized effort that creates a virtual poetic of the measure between the adventure of jazz as creative music and the emotional depth and dimension that convey what is beautiful resoundingly.
"[4] Peter Marsh of the BBC wrote: "this is incomparably lovely music, made by one of the most empathic units of recent times.
"[8] The Guardian's John Fordham described the album as "music-making for its own sake, from three old hands of the lateral-lyricism business," and stated that "the melodic senses of all three collaborators are so acute that even the free-fall sounds like something you could hum.