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One Life Left by Iordache Iordache : One Life Left.
 Free funk governed by the rules of chance.

Drawing upon elements of cool jazz, nu jazz, exotica and lounge funk, Iordache's tone colors can sound like Herbie's "Speak Like a Child", Jagga Jazzist, Snarky Puppy, Henry Mancini, Gil Evans or Dolphy's "Hot Cool and Latin". "One Life Left" is new cool jazz for the 21st, with lots of odd quirky eccentricities to boot.

Iordache leads a seven piece band on here including himself and Lucian Nagy on woodwinds, plus trumpet, bass, drums and two guitars. Guitarist Toni Kuhn also doubles on a very funky analog sounding synthesizer too. The three horns, and sometimes flute, combine with the electronic guitars and keyboards to create instrumental textures that work perfectly with the music they play.

Some album highlights include "Peace" with its classic mid-90s trip-hop down tempo beat and lush vibratoed chords on the electric piano, and "Suriname" which opens with smooth horn orchestrations backing an exotic synth melody that recalls the old Don Ellis experimental big band. This is a very creative and well executed album. To the serious post bop fan this album may seem a little light, but these players are not light weight at all, they just prefer to keep their cool, with their tongues planted in cheek.
(A review of One Life Left from the Jazz Music Archives website).

Songs:

1. Triangle
2. One Life Left
3. Peace
4. Suriname
5. Pyramid
6. I Guess it's Love
7. Stranger on a Train

Listen to: the entire album.

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Release date: 10/25/2013
Iordache lives in Bucharest Romania

Tagged as: Jazz, Funk

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