List of Jazz Standard Contrafacts

[jamiehenderson1993]

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[David B]

Adding to your list

• All The Things You Are / Bird of Paradise
• Blue Skies / In Walked Bud
• Cherokee / Ko-Ko / Parker 51 / Apachee
• Dahoud / S.O.S
• Embraceable You / Quasimodo
• Honeysuckle Rose / Scrapple from the Apple (w/ rhythm bridge) / Ah-Leu-Cha (w/ rhythm bridge) / Marmaduke
• How High the Moon / Ornithology
• I Got Rhythm / Anthropology / Oleo / Cottontail / Celia / 52nd Street Theme / Wail (Eb) / Eternal Triangle (different bridge) / Good Bait (A sections only) / Salt Peanuts / Seven Come Eleven / Au-Leu-Cha / So Sorry Please (Eb) / Strictly Confidential (Eb) / The Fruit (Eb) / The Scene Changes (Eb) / In the Mood for a Classic (Eb, with a 12 bar bridge)
• Indiana / Donna Lee
• It Could Happen To You / Ain't Misbehavin' / Fried Bananas
• Jeepers Creepers / Four Brothers
• Just You, Just Me / Evidence
• Lady Bird / Half Nelson
• Love Me or Leave Me / Segment / Lullaby of Birdland
• Lover, Come Back to Me / Bean and the Boys
• Oh, Lady Be Good / Dewey Square / Hackensack
• Out of Nowhere / Nostalgia
• Pennies from Heaven / Lennie's Pennies
• Rose Room / In a Mellow Tone
• Summertime / Four on Six
• Sweet Georgia Brown / Bright Mississippi
• Tune Up / Countdown
• What Is This Thing Called Love? / Hot House / Subconscious-Lee
• You Stepped Out of a Dream / Motion
• You're Driving Me Crazy / Moten Swing

Blues heads / Au Privave (F) / Bag's Groove (F) / Barbados (F) / Billie's Bounce / Bird Feathers (Bb) / Blue Monk / Cheryl (C) / Chi Chi (Ab) / Dance of the Infidels (F) / Drifting on a Reed / Freight Train (Tommy Flanagan blues in Ab) / Now's the Time (F) / Parker's Mood (Bb) / Misterioso (Bb) / Straight No Chaser (written in Bb, everyone plays it in F because of Miles)

[Bob_Ross]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned "Meet The Flintstones" yet (Hoyt Curtin's contrafact of Rhythm Changes)


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btw, I wrote a contrafact to "Just Friends" -- although it was more like a 2nd-cousin-once-removed contrafact, or a six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon contrafact: I did an extensive reharmonization of "Just Friends" first, and then I wrote a new melody for my new changes -- that appeared on the Debris + Herb Robertson album we recorded in 1996 and then got dropped by the label before its release.

But I now can't hear either tune and not think of the other.

[MarkRhodes]

Adding to your list

Jeepers Creeper / Four Brothers

I didn't know Four Brothers. (I had heard it but paid little attention to it.)
In a lesson with Robert Conti, he told me that when he took some lessons with Joe Sgro, the first order of business was to learn some Wohlfahrt etudes, and then he moved on to "Four Brothers." It's a catchy head. Conti told me it was a rite of passage among guitars players he knew as a kid, and each one tried to play it faster than the rest.

[James W]

The best titled contrafact has to be John Scofield's take on 'There Will Never Be Another You' called 'Not You Again'.

[grahambop]

Whispering = Groovin’ High

How High The Moon = Satellite
Confirmation = 26-2
(both with ‘Coltrane changes’)