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A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing one but introducing a new melody. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. This article is a list of notable contrafacts by jazz artists.
Contrafact
Contrafact Composer
Original Tune
Original Composer
Ablution
Lennie Tristano
All the Things You Are
Jerome Kern
All The Things You Could Be If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother
Charles Mingus
All the Things You Are
Jerome Kern
An Oscar For Treadwell
Charlie Parker
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Anthropology
Charlie Parker
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Apple Jump
Dexter Gordon
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) , "A" section
Christopher Cross , Burt Bacharach , Carole Bayer Sager , Peter Allen
All the Things You Are , "A" Section
Jerome Kern
Background Music
Warne Marsh
All of Me
Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons
Back Home In Brooklyn With Donna
Arun Luthra
Back Home Again in Indiana
Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley
Barry's Bop
Fats Navarro
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Cole Porter
Bean and the Boys
Coleman Hawkins
Lover Come Back to Me
Sigmund Romberg
Bebop Romp
Fats Navarro
Fine and Dandy
Kay Swift
Bird Gets The Worm
Charlie Parker
Lover Come Back to Me
Sigmund Romberg
Bird of Paradise
Charlie Parker
All the Things You Are
Jerome Kern
Blue Serge
Serge Chaloff
Cherokee
Ray Noble
Blue Silver
Blue Mitchell
Peace
Horace Silver
Blue's Theme
Blue Mitchell
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Boston Bernie
Dexter Gordon
All the Things You Are
Jerome Kern
Bright Mississippi
Thelonious Monk
Sweet Georgia Brown
Ben Bernie
Bud's Bubble
Bud Powell
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Celerity
Charlie Parker
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Celia
Bud Powell
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Chasin' the Bird
Charlie Parker
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Chick's Tune
Chick Corea
You Stepped Out of a Dream
Nacio Herb Brown
Chippie
Ornette Coleman
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Come Fog
Don Grolnick
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen
Constellation
Charlie Parker
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Cotton Tail
Duke Ellington
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Count Down
John Coltrane
Tune Up
Miles Davis
Crazeology
Benny Harris
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
C.T.A.
Jimmy Heath
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Dear John
Freddie Hubbard
Giant Steps
John Coltrane
Dewey Square
Charlie Parker
Oh, Lady Be Good!
George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Dexterity
Charlie Parker
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Dig (Composition)
Miles Davis
Sweet Georgia Brown
Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard
Dizzie Atmosphere
Dizzy Gillespie
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Do You Hear the Voices You Left Behind ?
John McLaughlin
Giant Steps
John Coltrane
Donna Lee
Charlie Parker and Miles Davis
Back Home Again in Indiana
Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley
Doxy
Sonny Rollins
Ja-Da
Bob Carleton
The Eternal Triangle
Sonny Stitt
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Evidence
Thelonious Monk
Just You, Just Me
Jesse Greer
Flintstones Theme
Bryson/Goldberg
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Fried Bananas
Dexter Gordon
It Could Happen To You
Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen
Fifth House
John Coltrane
Hot House
Tadd Dameron
Four Brothers
Jimmy Giuffre
Jeepers Creepers
Harry Warren
52nd St. Theme
Thelonious Monk
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Freight Train
Tommy Flanagan
Blues for Alice
Charlie Parker
Fungi Mama
Blue Mitchell
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Garage Band
Arun Luthra
How About You?
Burton Lane and Ralph Freed
Green St. Caper
Woody Shaw
Green Dolphin Street (song)
Bronislau Kaper
Good Bait
Dizzy Gillespie
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Groovin' High
Dizzy Gillespie
Whispering
Vincent Rose
Hackensack
Thelonious Monk
Oh, Lady Be Good
George Gershwin
Half Nelson
Miles Davis
Lady Bird
Tadd Dameron
Hot House
Tadd Dameron
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Cole Porter
I Hate You
Tete Montoliu
I Love You
Cole Porter
Impressions
John Coltrane
So What
Miles Davis
In A Mellow Tone
Duke Ellington
Rose Room
Art Hickman and Harry Williams
In Walked Bud
Thelonious Monk
Blue Skies
Irving Berlin
The Injuns
Donald Byrd
Cherokee
Ray Noble
Jack Sprat
Sonny Stitt
Blues for Alice
Charlie Parker
Juciy Lucy
Horace Silver
Confirmation
Charlie Parker
Keen and Peechy
Woody Herman
Fine and Dandy
Kay Swift
Ko Ko
Charlie Parker
Cherokee
Ray Noble
Lee's Dream
Fred Hersch
You Stepped Out of a Dream
Nacio Herb Brown
Little Willie Leaps
Miles Davis
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
Bronislaw Kaper , Walter Jurmann , and Gus Kahn
Lullaby of Birdland
George Shearing
Love Me or Leave Me
Walter Donaldson
The Man from Hyde Park
Harold Mabern
The Song is You
Jerome Kern
Marshmallow
Warne Marsh
Cherokee
Ray Noble
Mayreh
Horace Silver
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
Bronislaw Kaper , Walter Jurmann , and Gus Kahn
Mirror Lake
Idrees Sulieman
Wave
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Moose the Mooche
Charlie Parker
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
My Little Suede Shoes
Charlie Parker
Jeepers Creepers
Johnny Mercer
Nostalgia
Fats Navarro
Out of Nowhere
Johnny Green
Not You Again
John Scofield
There Will Never Be Another You
Harry Warren
Oleo
Sonny Rollins
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Ornithology
Charlie Parker /Benny Harris
How High The Moon
Morgan Lewis
Parker 51
Jimmy Raney
Cherokee
Ray Noble
Prince Albert
Kenny Dorham
All the Things You Are
Jerome Kern
Quicksilver
Horace Silver
Lover Come Back to Me
Sigmund Romberg
Re-Re
Bob Mintzer
Back Home Again in Indiana
Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley
Rhythm-a-ning
Thelonious Monk
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Room 608
Horace Silver
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Salt Peanuts
Dizzy Gillespie
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Salute to Birdland
Gigi Gryce
I'll Remember April
Gene de Paul
Split Kick
Horace Silver
There Will Never Be Another You
Harry Warren
Suspone
Mike Stern
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Subconscious Lee
Lee Konitz
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Cole Porter
Stupendous
Charlie Parker
S'Wonderful
George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Tangibility
Arun Luthra
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
The Theme
Miles Davis
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Third Event
Arun Luthra
Giant Steps
John Coltrane
317 E. 32nd
Lennie Tristano
Out of Nowhere
Johnny Green
Thriving From a Riff
Charlie Parker
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Tour de Force
Dizzy Gillespie
Jeepers Creepers
Harry Warren
Wail
Bud Powell
I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
Walk, Don't Run
Johnny Smith
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II
Waltz New
Jim Hall
Some Day My Prince Will Come
Frank Churchill
Warmin Up A Riff
Charlie Parker
Cherokee
Ray Noble
Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am
Charles Mingus
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Cole Porter
What Love?
Charles Mingus
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Cole Porter
Yardbird Suite
Charlie Parker
Rosetta
Earl Hines
Zog's Jog
James Morrison
Cherokee
Ray Noble
See Also
"On The Dot" based on "Just In Time" composer: Brian Lynch
References
Aebersold, Jamey (1982). Charlie Parker Omnibook . Criterion. ISBN 0-7692-6053-5 .
Baker, David (2006). How To Play Bebop, Volume 3 . Alfred. ISBN 0-7390-2182-6 .
Owens, Thomas (1982). Bebop: The Music and Its Players . Oxford. ISBN 0-1951-0651-2 .
Sher, Chuck (2005). The New Real Book, Volume 1 . Sher Music. ISBN 0-9614701-4-3 .
Sher, Chuck (2005). The New Real Book, Volume 2 . Sher Music. ISBN 0-9614701-7-8 .
Sher, Chuck (2005). The New Real Book, Volume 3 . Sher Music. ISBN 1-883217-03-2 .
External links
Searchable Realbook Index at www.seventhstring.co.uk
Jazz era transition to Bebop: "Hot House" and the revolutionary aspect "Charlie Parker I: - Hot House", Article by Bernard Chazelle (Princeton, Collège de France), Sept. 9, 2008
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