List of Jazz Contrafacts

List of jazz contrafacts A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing one but introducing a new melody and arrangement. 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

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"Zog's Jog"

Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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James Morrison

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

"Yellow Dolphin Street"

1977

Tete Montoliu

"On Green Dolphin Street"

1947

Bronislau Kaper

"Yardbird Suite"

1946

Charlie Parker

"Rosetta"

1939

Earl Hines

Lennie Tristano

"You Can Depend on Me"

1931

Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines

"What Love?"

Charles Mingus

"What Is This Thing Called Love?"

1929

Cole Porter

"Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am"

Charles Mingus

"What Is This Thing Called Love?"

1929

Cole Porter

"Wells Fargo"

Wilbur Harden

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

Elmo Hope

"Confirmatio n"

1946

Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

"Wow"

"Weeja"

"Warmin Up a Riff"

1949

1956

Contrafact

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Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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Jim Hall

"Someday My Prince Will 1937 Come"

Frank Churchill

Johnny Smith

"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise"

1928

Sigmund Romberg

"Wail"

Bud Powell

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Vodka"

Mal Waldron

"Yesterdays"

1933

Jerome Kern

"Waltz New"

"Walk, Don't Run"

1954

"Two in Love"

2000

Jack Cooper

"I Love You"

1944

Cole Porter

"Twelve"

2000

Peter Erskine

"Easy to Love"

1934

Cole Porter

Dizzy Gillespie

"Jeepers Creepers"

1938

Harry Warren

"Tour de Force"

"Tippin'"

1956

Horace Silver

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Tide"

1970

Antônio Carlos Jobim

"Wave"

1967

Antônio Carlos Jobim

"Third Event"

Arun Luthra

"Giant Steps"

1959

John Coltrane

"The Theme"

Miles Davis

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"The Red Tornado"

Red Rodney

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

Contrafact

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Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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"The Protagonist"

Jack Cooper

"Lover"

1932

Richard Rodgers

"The Man from Hyde Park"

Harold Mabern

"The Song Is You"

1932

Jerome Kern

Les Paul

"Stompin' at the Savoy"

1934

Edgar Sampson

Donald Byrd

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

"The Kangaroo"

1953

"The Injuns"

"The Eternal Triangle"

1957

Sonny Stitt

"Dizzy Atmosphere"

1945

Dizzy Gillespie

"That's My Kick"

1967

Erroll Garner

"I Get A Kick Out Of You"

1934

Cole Porter

"Teapot"

J. J. Johnson

"Sweet Georgia Brown"

1925

Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard

"Tangibility"

Arun Luthra

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Sweet Thing"

Rory Stuart

"In Your Own 1955 Sweet Way"

Dave Brubeck

"Sweet Clifford"

Clifford Brown

"Sweet Georgia Brown"

1925

Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard

"Suspone"

Mike Stern

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

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Ike Quebec

"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"

1937

Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn

"Subconscious Lee"

Lee Konitz

"What Is This Thing Called Love?"

1929

Cole Porter

"Sub-Atomic Dominant"

Jimmy Halperin

"Sweet Georgia Brown"

1925

Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard

"Stupendous"

Mel Broiles

"'S Wonderful"

1927

George Gershwin

Sonny Rollins

"Confirmatio n"

1946

Charlie Parker

"Straight Life"

Art Pepper

"After You've Gone"

1918

Turner Layton

"Steeplechase"

Charlie Parker

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Spotlite"

Coleman Hawkins

"Just You, Just Me"

1929

Jesse Greer

"Split Kick"

Horace Silver

"There Will Never Be Another You"

1942

Harry Warren

"Shelley"

Red Rodney

"Rosetta"

1939

Earl Hines

Contrafact

"Suburban Eyes"

"Striver's Row"

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1947

1957

Contrafact composer

Original Tune

Contrafact

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Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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"Seven, Come Eleven"

Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Serene"

Eric Dolphy

"Tenderly"

1946

Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence

Charlie Parker

"Honeysuckle Rose"

1929

Fats Waller

Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh

"Fine and Dandy"

1930

Kay Swift

"Scrapple from the Apple"

1947

"Sax of a Kind"

"Salute to Birdland AKA Salute to the Bandbox"

1954

Gigi Gryce

"I'll Remember April"

1942

Gene de Paul

"Salt Peanuts"

1942

Dizzy Gillespie

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Room 608"

Horace Silver

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Rifftide"

Coleman Hawkins

"Oh, Lady Be Good!"

1924

George Gershwin

Thelonious Monk

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

Wilbur Harden

"Take the "A" Train"

1939

Billy Strayhorn

Charlie Parker

"Stompin' at the Savoy"

1934

Edgar Sampson

"Rhythm-a-Ning"

1957

"Rhodomagnetics"

"Relaxin' With Lee"

1950

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Benny Harris

"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"

1937

Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn

"Re-Re"

Bob Mintzer

"Back Home Again in Indiana"

1917

Ballard MacDonald, Jam es F. Hanley

"Raeba"

Jimmy Halperin

"I Didn't Know What Time It Was"

1939

Richard Rodgers

"Quicksilver"

Horace Silver

"Lover, Come Back to Me"

1928

Sigmund Romberg

"Quasimodo"

Charlie Parker

"Embraceable You"

1928

George Gershwin

"Psalm"

Jimmy Halperin

"Darn That Dream"

1939

Jimmy Van Heusen

"Prince Albert"

Kenny Dorham

"All the Things You Are"

1939

Jerome Kern

"Parker 51"

Jimmy Raney

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

Charlie Parker, Benny Harris

"How High the Moon"

1940

Morgan Lewis

Mike Stern

"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise"

1928

Sigmund Romberg

Contrafact composer

Original Tune

"Reets and I"

Contrafact

"Ornithology"

"One Liners"

Yea r

1946

Contrafact

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Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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Tadd Dameron

"September in 1937 the Rain"

Harry Warren

Sonny Rollins

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Off the Cuff"

Jim McNeely

"It's You or No One"

1963

Jule Styne

"Not You Again"

John Scofield

"There Will Never Be Another You"

1942

Harry Warren

"Nostalgia"

Fats Navarro

"Out of Nowhere"

1931

Johnny Green

"Never Felt That Way Before"

Sonny Stitt

"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"

1937

Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn

"My Little Suede Shoes"

Charlie Parker

"Jeepers Creepers"

1938

Harry Warren

Charlie Parker

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

Idrees Sulieman

"Wave"

1967

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Tal Farlow

"Confirmatio n"

1946

Charlie Parker

Jim McNeely

"Just in Time" 1956

"On a Misty Night"

"Oleo"

"Moose the Mooche"

1945

1946

"Mirror Lake"

"Meteor"

"Meiji Stunt"

1956

Jule Styne

Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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"Mayreh"

Horace Silver

"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"

1937

Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann

"Marshmallow"

Warne Marsh

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

Contrafact

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"Mad Be Bop"

1946

J. J. Johnson

"Just You, Just Me"

1929

Jesse Greer

"Lullaby of Birdland"

1952

George Shearing

"Love Me or Leave Me"

1928

Walter Donaldson

Miles Davis

"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"

1937

Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn

Thelonious Monk

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Little Willie Leaps"

1947

"Little Rootie Tootie"

"Lex"

1960

Donald Byrd

"Back Home Again in Indiana"

1917

Ballard MacDonald, Jam es F. Hanley

"Lester Leaps In"

1939

Lester Young

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Lennie-Bird"

Lennie Tristano

"How High the Moon"

1940

Morgan Lewis

"Lennie's Pennies"

Lennie Tristano

"Pennies from 1936 Heaven"

Arthur Johnston

"Lee's Dream"

Fred Hersch

"You Stepped Out of a Dream"

Nacio Herb Brown

1940

Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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Teddy Charles

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

Charlie Parker

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

"Keen and Peechy"

Woody Herman

"Fine and Dandy"

1930

Kay Swift

"Kamman's A' Comin'"

Oscar Pettiford

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Juicy Lucy"

Horace Silver

"Confirmatio n"

1946

Charlie Parker

"Ju-Ju"

Lennie Tristano

"Back Home Again in Indiana"

1917

Ballard MacDonald, Jam es F. Hanley

"Jayne"

Ornette Coleman

"Out of Nowhere"

1931

Johnny Green

Contrafact

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"Kokochee"

"Ko-Ko"[5]

1945

"Jay Jay"

1946

J. J. Johnson

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Jay Bird"

1946

J. J. Johnson

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Jahbero"

Tadd Dameron

"All the Things You Are"

1939

Jerome Kern

"Jack Sprat"

Sonny Stitt

"Blues for Alice"

1951

Charlie Parker

"Intoit"

Stan Getz

"A Night in Tunisia"

1942

Dizzy Gillespie

Contrafact

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"Infra Rae"

Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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Hank Mobley

"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise"

1928

Sigmund Romberg

"In Walked Bud"

1947

Thelonious Monk

"Blue Skies"

1926

Irving Berlin

"In a Mellow Tone"

1939

Duke Ellington

"Rose Room"

1917

Art Hickman, Harry Williams

"Impressions"

1961

John Coltrane

"So What"

1959

Miles Davis

"Ice Freezes Red"

Fats Navarro

"Back Home Again in Indiana"

1917

James F. Hanley

"I Want More"

Dexter Gordon

"All the Things You Are"

1939

Jerome Kern

"I Hate You"

Tete Montoliu

"I Love You"

1944

Cole Porter

"Hot House"

1945

Tadd Dameron

"What Is This Thing Called Love?"

1929

Cole Porter

"Half Nelson"

1947

Miles Davis

"Lady Bird"

1939

Tadd Dameron

Thelonious Monk

"Oh, Lady Be Good"

1924

George Gershwin

Dizzy Gillespie

"Whispering"

1920

Vincent Rose

"Hackensack"

"Groovin' High"

1945

Contrafact

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"Green St. Caper"

Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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Woody Shaw

"Green Dolphin Street"

1947

Bronislau Kaper

"Good Bait"

1944

Tadd Dameron, Count Basie

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Get It"

1957

Bud Powell

"Love Me or Leave Me"

1928

Walter Donaldson

"Garage Band"

Arun Luthra

"How About You?"

1941

Burton Lane

"Futurity"

Gigi Gryce

"There Will Never Be Another You"

1942

Harry Warren

"Fungi Mama"

Blue Mitchell

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Fried Bananas"

Dexter Gordon

"It Could Happen to You"

1944

Jimmy Van Heusen

"Freight Train"

Tommy Flanagan

"Blues for Alice"

1951

Charlie Parker

"Frantic Fancies"

Bud Powell

"'S Wonderful"

1927

George Gershwin

"Fox Hunt"

Maynard Ferguson

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"For Regulars Only"

Dexter Gordon

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

Contrafact

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Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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Bryson, Goldberg

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

Horace Silver

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Fifth House"

John Coltrane

"Hot House"

1945

Tadd Dameron

"Feather Bed"

Ted Brown

"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"

1943

Cole Porter

Fats Navarro

"Oh, Lady Be Good"

1924

George Gershwin

"Ezz-Thetic"

George Russell

"Love for Sale"

1930

Cole Porter

"Evidence"[3]

Thelonious Monk

"Just You, Just Me"[4]

1929

Jesse Greer

"Dream Stepper"

Lee Konitz

"You Stepped Out of a Dream"

1940

Nacio Herb Brown

"Dream Step"

Dick Oatts

"You Stepped Out of a Dream"

1940

Nacio Herb Brown

Sonny Rollins

"Ja-Da"

1918

Bob Carleton

Wes Montgomery

"Confirmatio n"

1946

Charlie Parker

"Flintstones Theme"

"Finger Poppin'"

"Fats Blows"

"Doxy"

"Doujie"

1959

1947

1957

Original Tune

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"Back Home Again in Indiana"[2]

1917

Ballard MacDonald, Jam es F. Hanley

"Don't Be That Way"

Benny Goodman, Edgar "I Got Sampson, Mitche Rhythm" ll Parish

1930

George Gershwin

"Do You Hear the Voices You Left Behind?"

John McLaughlin

"Giant Steps"

1959

John Coltrane

"Dizzie Atmosphere"

Dizzy Gillespie

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Diggin' Diz"

Dizzy Gillespie

"Lover"

1932

Richard Rodgers

Contrafact

"Donna Lee"

Yea r

1947

Contrafact composer

Charlie Parker and Miles Davis

"Dig"

1951

Miles Davis

"Sweet Georgia Brown"

1925

Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard

"Dextrose"

1947

Dexter Gordon

"Fine and Dandy"

1930

Kay Swift

"Dextivity"

1947

Dexter Gordon

"Take the "A" Train"

1939

Billy Strayhorn

"Dexterity"

Charlie Parker

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Dewey Square"

Charlie Parker

"Oh, Lady Be Good!"

1924

George Gershwin

"Denial"

Miles Davis

"Confirmatio n"

1946

Charlie Parker

Contrafact

"Dear John"

Yea r

1990

Contrafact composer

Original Tune

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Freddie Hubbard

"Giant Steps"

1959

John Coltrane

"Crazeology"

Benny Harris

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Coupe de Ville"

Mike Stern

"There Is No 1936 Greater Love"

Isham Jones

"Countdown"

John Coltrane

"Tune Up"

1953

Miles Davis

"Cotton Tail"

1940

Duke Ellington

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Constellation"

1948

Charlie Parker

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

Don Grolnick

"Come Rain or Come Shine"

1946

Harold Arlen

J. J. Johnson

"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"

1937

Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn

Ornette Coleman

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Chippie"

Ornette Coleman

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Chick's Tune"

Chick Corea

"You Stepped Out of a Dream"

1940

Nacio Herb Brown

"Come Fog"

"Coffee Pot"

"Chronology"

1959

Contrafact

Yea r

Contrafact composer

Original Tune

Yea r

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"Chasin' the Bird"

Charlie Parker

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Celia"

Bud Powell

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Celebrity"

Charlie Parker

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Casbah"

Tadd Dameron

"Out of Nowhere"

1931

Johnny Green

"C.T.A."

Jimmy Heath

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Byas a Drink"

Don Byas

"Stompin' at the Savoy"

1934

Edgar Sampson

"Bud's Bubble"

Bud Powell

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Bright Mississippi"

Thelonious Monk

"Sweet Georgia Brown"

1925

Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard

"Boston Bernie"

Dexter Gordon

"All the Things You Are"

1939

Jerome Kern

J. J. Johnson

"Honeysuckle Rose"

1929

Fats Waller,

Blue Mitchell

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Boneology"

"Blue's Theme"

1946

Yea r

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"Peace"

1959

Horace Silver

Serge Chaloff

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

Charlie Parker

"All the Things You Are"

1939

Jerome Kern

Charlie Parker

"Lover, Come Back to Me"

1928

Sigmund Romberg

"Because of Guns"

Vijay Iyer

"Hey Joe"

1962

Billy Roberts

"Bebop Romp"

Fats Navarro

"Fine and Dandy"

1930

Kay Swift

Coleman Hawkins

"Lover, Come Back to Me"

1928

Sigmund Romberg

"Barry's Bop"

Fats Navarro

"What Is This Thing Called Love?"

1929

Cole Porter

"Background Music"

Warne Marsh

"All of Me"

1931

Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons

"Back Home in Brooklyn with Donna"

Arun Luthra

"Back Home Again in Indiana"

1917

James F. Hanley

"Apple Jump"

Dexter Gordon

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"Apache Dance"

George Coleman

"Cherokee"

1938

Ray Noble

Yea r

Contrafact composer

"Blue Silver"

1948

Blue Mitchell

"Blue Serge"[1]

1946

Contrafact

"Bird of Paradise"

"Bird Gets the Worm"

"Bean and the Boys"

1947

1948

Original Tune

Yea r

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"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

Charlie Parker

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

"All The Things You Could Be By Now If 1961 Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother"

Charles Mingus

"All the Things You Are"

1939

Jerome Kern

"Ablution"

Lennie Tristano

"All the Things You Are"

1939

Jerome Kern

Thelonious Monk

"I Got Rhythm"

1930

George Gershwin

Lennie Tristano

"Out of Nowhere"

1931

Johnny Green

John Coltrane

"Confirmatio n"

1946

Charlie Parker

Yea r

Contrafact composer

1945

Charlie Parker

"An Oscar for Treadwell"

Contrafact

"Anthropology/Thrivi ng from a Riff"

"52nd Street Theme"

1944

"317 East 32nd Street"

"26-2"[citation needed]

1960

Fried Bananas-It Could Happen To You Nostalgia-Out Of Nowhere Boston Bernie-All The things You Are Prince Albert-All The Things You Are Half Nelson-Lady Bird Hot House-What is this Thing Called Love?

Original Tune

Omicron-Woody n You Injuns-Cherokee Dear John-Giant Steps Justice-Evidence-Just YOu Just Me Ornithology-How High the Moon 26-2-Confirmation Quicksilver-Lover Come Back to Me Impressions-So What Anti-Climax-So What Cunning Lee-So What Split Kick-Never Another You Donna Lee-Indiana Green St. Capers-Green Dolphin St. Chick's Tune-You Stepped Out of a Dream

I Got Rhythm Apple Jump Dexterity Anthropology (Thriving From a Riff) Hoe Down Room 608 Chasin The Bird Eternal Triangle Cottontail Celerity Flintstones theme Jumpin@ Woodside Moose the Mooche Five Brothers Shaw Nuff Salt Peanuts Rhythm-a-ning Oleo The Theme Cheers

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise        

Infa Rae Bup a Loup Fried Bananas-It Could Happen To You Nostalgia-Out Of Nowhere Boston Bernie-All The things You Are Prince Albert-All The Things You Are Half Nelson-Lady Bird Hot House-What is this Thing Called Love?

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Omicron-Woody n You Injuns-Cherokee Dear John-Giant Steps Justice-Evidence-Just You Just Me Ornithology-How High the Moon 26-2-Confirmation Quicksilver-Lover Come Back to Me Impressions-So What Anti-Climax-So What Cunning Lee-So What Split Kick-Never Another You Donna Lee-Indiana Green St. Capers-Green Dolphin St. Chick's Tune-You Stepped Out of a Dream Waltz New-Some Day My Prince Will Come