Sophia Domancich, Mark Helias, Eric McPherson - Wishes (2025) [CD-Rip]

The trio has always been for Sophia Domancich the main thread of her journey, the fundamental form conducive to the greatest fulfillment. Her long companions with Paul Rogers and Tony Levin, then Simon Goubert and Jean-Jacques Avenel, her meetings with Hamid Drake and William Parker or with Mark Helias and Andrew Cyrille are all episodes that have placed her in a good place in the rich history of the jazz trio.

For each of these formations, it has always been a question of bringing into play the formal expectations of this ideally equilateral triangle. By turning this time to Mark Helias and Eric McPherson, Sophia Domancich opens new fields of exploration.

Heard alongside the greats (Jackie McLean, Pharaoh Sanders, Greg Osby, Avishai Cohen, Fred Hersh, Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Ed Blackwell, Anthony Braxton…), Helias and McPherson have this solidity of the rock to embrace in the moment all the fulgurances of their partner. Their sound is in keeping with the extraordinary means of Sophia Domancich to develop powerful textures on the piano.

Together they invite us to a sound odyssey made of chiaroscuro, contrasts where very elaborate structures and total evasions are skillfully mixed. One hears their taste and masterful know- how for a jazz firmly attached to its origins, dancing, orchestral, as much as their ability to explode the forms in long improvised phases.

Tracklist
01 I wish that I could wish
02 La Bagatelle
03 For J-J
04 It could be so simple
05 Le royaume des ombres
06 Universal Harmony
07 Free together
08 Eliott et Noah
09 Come again
10 Twofold sense