One Flight Down - Norah Jones

Norah Jone's album, Come Away With Me, is one of my personal favorites and in my opinion, one of the best ever made. Sadly, the rest of her career did not fellow the beautiful, melodic and jazz style that this album so wonderfully showcased, but that's a rant for another blog.

Regardless, the track off of this album that I picked, 'One Flight Down,' is not a very complicated song. It has an AABABA format. It starts of fairly simple, with a bass and drum set keeping the tempo, while the piano plays an instrumental version of the melody. After this is done, it goes into the actual lyrics, mirroring the intro, with the bass and drums keeping the same slow, melodic tempo.

Then the song goes into the chorus, which has a beautiful jazz chord progression by the piano which is one that I have heard many times before, but I can't exactly tell what it is. After this, it goes back into the same style as before, back to A. Except this time, after about 2 bars, an organ comes in and adds a nice little variation from the first verse. We then have a reprise of the chorus, B, with not much variation to it at all.

It then goes back into A, with Norah's lyrics being a bit more wild and varied to add some needed emphasis to the lyrics themselves. As I said before, while this is not a very complicated piece to listen to or analyze, it is one that seems to thrive off of its simplicity. The main focus of the piece is not the instrumental, but Norah's sensual and beautiful voice. That is what draws you in and makes you listen to it over and over again.