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Here are a list of 41 bop heads some of which I know well, some of which I know... less well... and a couple of which I am basically at square one with...
The idea is to make it up to 50 bop heads, but I wouldn't mind some suggestions on the other 9 - I'm sure I've missed some obvious ones. I probably wouldn't really include anything from the Tristano school, as I kind of see that stuff as a separate language, and wouldn't include any of the John Coltrane stuff like 26-2 for the same reason... (Although I'm probably pushing it a bit with Tenor Madness, Airmail, Along Came Betty and Tickletoe, YMMV...)
Also the list might prove useful to other learners...
Head Contrefact Key Composer 1 A Night in Tunisia Dm Dizzy Gillespie 2 Air Mail Special Rhythm with different bridge C Charlie Christian 3 Along Came Betty Bbm Benny Golson 4 Anthropology Rhythm Changes Bb Charlie Parker 5 Au Privave Blues F Charlie Parker 6 Bebop Gm? Dizzy Gillespie 7 Billie's Bounce Blues F Charlie Parker 8 Blues for Alice Reharmonised Blues F Charlie Parker 9 Celia Rhythm Changes Bb Bud Powell 10 Cheryl Blues C Charlie Parker 11 Chi-chi Blues Ab Charlie Parker 12 Conception Db George Shearing 13 Confirmation F Charlie Parker 14 Cool Blues Blues ? Charlie Parker 15 Dance of the Infidels Reharmonised Blues F Bud Powell 16 Dewey Square Lady be Good Eb Charlie Parker 17 Dig Sweet Georgia Brown F Miles Davis 18 Donna Lee Indiana Ab Miles Davis 19 Fried Bananas It Could Happen to You Eb Dexter Gordon 20 Groovin' High Whisperin Eb Dizzy Gillespie 21 Half Nelson Lady Bird C Miles Davis 22 Hot House What is This Thing C Tadd Dameron 23 Little Willie Leaps All God's Children Got Rhythm F Miles Davis 24 Marmaduke Honeysuckle Rose F Charlie Parker 25 Moose the Mooche Rhythm Changes Bb Charlie Parker 26 Move Lady be Good/Honeysuckle Bridge Bb Denzil Best 27 Nostalgia Out of Nowhere G Fats Navarro 28 Now's the Time Blues F Charlie Parker 29 Old Milestones Miles Davis 30 Ornithology How High the Moon G Parker/Harris 31 Quasimodo Embraceable You Eb Charlie Parker 32 Red Kross Can’t remember Charlie Parker 33 Scrapple from the Apple Honeysuckle Rhythm Bridge F Charlie Parker 34 Segment Comes Love? Bbm Charlie Parker 35 Serpent's Tooth Rhythm/Honeysuckle Bridge Bb Miles Davis 36 Sippin' at Bells Blues F Charlie Parker 37 Stupendouse S'Wonderful Eb Charlie Parker 38 Tenor Madness Blues Bb Sonny Rollins 39 Tickle Toe Bbm Lester Young 40 Wail Rhythm Changes Eb Bud Powell 41 Yardbird Suite Rosetta? C Charlie Parker
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03-19-2016 07:45 PM
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Tempus Fugit - Bud Powell.
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Aren't there some more Parker ones?
Perhaps
Passport
Relaxin' at Camarillo
Klactoveedsedsteen (or however the hell you spell it!)
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Buzzy
Barbados
Ah-Leu-Cha
Constellation
Steeplechase
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Airegin
Four
Wee Dot
Ray's Idea
Casbah
C.T.A.
Would'n You
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Solar
Oleo
Joy Spring
Jordu
DaahoudLast edited by grahambop; 03-19-2016 at 08:35 PM.
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"My Little Suede Shoes" is among my favorite Parker tunes.
And "Bloomdido"
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Swingin till the girls come home - Bb blues
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That's a fun tune. Here's Oscar Peterson doing it
Originally Posted by Nate Miller
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Vierd Blues.....A favorite I haven't listened to for awhile.
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Ted Dunbar had a list of bebop heads he had his students learn. He felt each one provided a unique technical challenge for the guitarist.
David Baker also had a list of essential bebop heads in one of his books.
I combined them into one chart.
A Night in Tunisia Baker Afternoon in Paris Baker Airegin Dunbar Anthropology Dunbar, Baker Au Privave Dunbar Back Home Blues Baker Barbados Baker Bebop Dunbar, Baker Bebop Revisited Baker Billie's Bounce Baker Birdlike Baker Bloomdido Baker Bouncin' with Bud Baker Budo Dunbar Calcutta Cutie Baker Ceora Dunbar Cheryl Dunbar, Baker Chi-Chi Baker Con Alma Dunbar Confirmation Dunbar, Baker Cookin' at the Continental Dunbar, Baker Daahoud Dunbar Dance of the Infidels Baker Dat Dere Dunbar Dewey Square Baker Dexterity Baker Dig Dunbar Don’t Argue Baker Donna Baker Donna Lee Dunbar,
BakerEternal Triangle Baker Four Dunbar Four Brothers Baker Freedom Jazz Dance (Evolution Of The Groove) Dunbar Giant Steps Dunbar Gingerbread Boy Dunbar Good Bait Baker Groovin' High Dunbar, Baker Half Nelson Dunbar, Baker Hot House Baker Impressions Dunbar Jordu Dunbar, Baker Joy Spring Dunbar, Baker Little Willie Leaps Dunbar, Baker Mayreh Baker Milestones Dunbar, Baker Mohawk Baker Moment's Notice Dunbar Moose the Mooch Baker Oleo Dunbar Opus De Funk Dunbar Opus V Baker Ornithology Dunbar, Baker Parisian Thoroughfare Dunbar Passport Baker Prince Albert Dunbar Quicksilver Dunbar, Baker Relaxin' at Camarillo Baker Room 608 Dunbar, Baker Salt Peanuts Baker Scrapple From The Apple Dunbar, Baker Shaw Nuff Baker Sippin' at Bell's Dunbar, Baker Song for My Father Dunbar Split Kick Baker Steeplechase Baker That's Earl, Brother Baker The Serpent's Tooth Baker The Theme Dunbar Things to Come Baker Tricotism Dunbar Vierd Blues Dunbar Wail Baker Where You At? Baker Woody 'N You Baker Yardbird Suite Dunbar, Baker
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Tadd Dameron's 'Our Delight' is a nice tune, not mentioned so far I think.
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An interesting one by a guitarist is Barney Kessel's 'Vicky's Dream' - sounds like he composed it when he was going through a Tristano-ite phase! (spot the contrafact!)
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Love that recording! Hadn't heard that in a long time either. Thanks! Originally Posted by srlank
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I won't say because I knew this already. Hadn't heard the recording in awhile. Thanks! This was from his debut album, "Easy Like." (I dig the title tune too.) Originally Posted by grahambop
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Buds Idea
Webb City
Whisper Not
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I was going to suggest "Bird Feathers". Just one of my favourites.
Reading this thread has reminded me what a rich seam pure Bebop is.
Tell you what though, you'll really be an expert when you can list all the alternate titles that some of these tunes were known by. (For dubious copyright/royalty reasons).
"Bebop in Pastel" anyone ?
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There's a few listed here that I forgot I learned. I think 50 might be very achievable in the next few weeks.
Hmm... can we make the list to 100? :-)Last edited by christianm77; 03-20-2016 at 03:12 PM.
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There should be more Dameron-Navarro tunes. How about Barry's Bop, or Tadd Walk, or Eb-Pob?
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attaboy! Originally Posted by sgcim
Still surprises me how Tristano-ey that tune sounds. I would never have guessed it was by Barney.
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Ezz-thetic by George Russell.
(Do you know I had to type that about six times before my iPad would stop auto-correcting it to something else!)
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Ladybird by Tadd Dameron.
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There are a few above that I wouldn't consider bebop, but there's no hard and fast criteria.
Anyway, three others that I think fall clearly into the idiom:
Bouncin With Bud
Crazeology
Sixteen
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Also, Freight Trane (Bird blues in Ab).
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Lazy Bird - Pat Martino has a version but Coltrane, I believe, composed it
My favorite BeBop tune.Last edited by AlsoRan; 03-21-2016 at 08:02 AM.
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