Almudena Longares

When you search for the greatest jazz singers/artists of the last century you usually find Nina Simone among them, ..but as a professional musician is inevitable to not listen to her sometimes unpleasant tone, how “out of pitch she is in some moments”, or how her voice usually cracks between registers. Impressively, her register is extremely limited (she keeps around one octave for melodies between the 3 and 4 octave), which makes her usually transpose her main songs in only four key...

Does music has a expiry date? Why some music seems never out of fashion but another one can only endure for a season?

Did you notice how the music of Yann Tiersen evokes calmness in his harmonic chord progressions, but it doesn't follow any clear ¨ harmonic functional ¨ rule? If we focus exclusively on the harmony, there is something that really might catch your attention. All the arrangements have in the start, a repetitive "vamp of chords" , which sounds smooth and stable - but at the same time has something special on it, doesn't seem to follow the usual harmonic functions. There are steady, colourful...