Contrafact |
Year |
Contrafact composer |
Original Tune |
Year |
Original composer |
"26-2"[citation needed] |
1960 |
John Coltrane |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
"Ablution" |
|
Lennie Tristano |
"All the Things You Are" |
1939 |
Jerome Kern |
"All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother" |
1961 |
Charles Mingus |
"All the Things You Are" |
1939 |
Jerome Kern |
"An Oscar for Treadwell" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Anthropology/Thriving from a Riff" |
1945 |
Charlie Parker |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Apache Dance" |
|
George Coleman |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
"Apple Jump" |
|
Dexter Gordon |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"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 |
"Barry's Bop" |
|
Fats Navarro |
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" |
1929 |
Cole Porter |
"Bean and the Boys" |
1948 |
Coleman Hawkins |
"Lover, Come Back to Me" |
1928 |
Sigmund Romberg |
"Bebop Romp" |
|
Fats Navarro |
"Fine and Dandy" |
1930 |
Kay Swift |
"Because of Guns" |
|
Vijay Iyer |
"Hey Joe" |
1962 |
Billy Roberts |
"Bird Gets the Worm" |
1947 |
Charlie Parker |
"Lover, Come Back to Me" |
1928 |
Sigmund Romberg |
"Bird of Paradise" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"All the Things You Are" |
1939 |
Jerome Kern |
"Blue Serge"[1] |
1946 |
Serge Chaloff |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
"Blue Silver" |
1948 |
Blue Mitchell |
"Peace" |
1959 |
Horace Silver |
"Blue's Theme" |
|
Blue Mitchell |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Boneology" |
1946 |
J. J. Johnson |
"Honeysuckle Rose" |
1929 |
Fats Waller, |
"Boston Bernie" |
|
Dexter Gordon |
"All the Things You Are" |
1939 |
Jerome Kern |
"Bright Mississippi" |
|
Thelonious Monk |
"Sweet Georgia Brown" |
1925 |
Ben Bernie |
"Bud's Bubble" |
|
Bud Powell |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Byas a Drink" |
|
Don Byas |
"Stompin' at the Savoy" |
1934 |
Edgar Sampson |
"Celebrity" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Celia" |
|
Bud Powell |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Chasin' the Bird" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Chick's Tune" |
|
Chick Corea |
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" |
1940 |
Nacio Herb Brown |
"Chippie" |
|
Ornette Coleman |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Chronology" |
1959 |
Ornette Coleman |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Come Fog" |
|
Don Grolnick |
"Come Rain or Come Shine" |
1946 |
Harold Arlen |
"Constellation" |
1948 |
Charlie Parker |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Cotton Tail" |
1940 |
Duke Ellington |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Countdown" |
|
John Coltrane |
"Tune Up" |
1953 |
Miles Davis |
"Coupe de Ville" |
|
Mike Stern |
"There Is No Greater Love" |
1936 |
Isham Jones |
"Crazeology" |
|
Benny Harris |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"C.T.A." |
|
Jimmy Heath |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Dear John" |
1990 |
Freddie Hubbard |
"Giant Steps" |
1959 |
John Coltrane |
"Dewey Square" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"Oh, Lady Be Good!" |
1924 |
George Gershwin |
"Denial" |
|
Miles Davis |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
"Dexterity" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Dig" |
1951 |
Miles Davis |
"Sweet Georgia Brown" |
1925 |
Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard |
"Diggin' Diz" |
|
Dizzy Gillespie |
"Lover" |
1932 |
Richard Rodgers |
"Dizzie Atmosphere" |
|
Dizzy Gillespie |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Do You Hear the Voices You Left Behind?" |
|
John McLaughlin |
"Giant Steps" |
1959 |
John Coltrane |
"Donna Lee" |
1947 |
Charlie Parker and Miles Davis |
"Back Home Again in Indiana"[2] |
1917 |
Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley |
"Don't Be That Way" |
|
Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Mitchell Parish |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Doujie" |
|
Wes Montgomery |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
"Doxy" |
1957 |
Sonny Rollins |
"Ja-Da" |
1918 |
Bob Carleton |
"Dream Stepper" |
|
Lee Konitz |
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" |
1940 |
Nacio Herb Brown |
"The Eternal Triangle" |
1957 |
Sonny Stitt |
"Dizzy Atmosphere" |
1945 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
"Evidence"[3] |
|
Thelonious Monk |
"Just You, Just Me"[4] |
1929 |
Jesse Greer |
"Ezz-Thetic" |
|
George Russell |
"Love for Sale" |
1930 |
Cole Porter |
"Feather Bed" |
|
Ted Brown |
"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" |
1943 |
Cole Porter |
"Finger Poppin'" |
1959 |
Horace Silver |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Flintstones Theme" |
|
Bryson, Goldberg |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Fox Hunt" |
|
Maynard Ferguson |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Fried Bananas" |
|
Dexter Gordon |
"It Could Happen to You" |
1944 |
Jimmy Van Heusen |
"Fifth House" |
|
John Coltrane |
"Hot House" |
1945 |
Tadd Dameron |
"Four Brothers" |
1947 |
Jimmy Giuffre |
"Jeepers Creepers" |
1938 |
Harry Warren |
"52nd Street Theme" |
1944 |
Thelonious Monk |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"For Regulars Only" |
|
Dexter Gordon |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Frantic Fancies" |
|
Bud Powell |
"'S Wonderful" |
1927 |
George Gershwin |
"Freight Train" |
|
Tommy Flanagan |
"Blues for Alice" |
1951 |
Charlie Parker |
"Fungi Mama" |
|
Blue Mitchell |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Futurity" |
|
Gigi Gryce |
"There Will Never Be Another You" |
1942 |
Harry Warren |
"Garage Band" |
|
Arun Luthra |
"How About You?" |
1941 |
Burton Lane |
"Get It" |
1957 |
Bud Powell |
"Love Me or Leave Me" |
1928 |
Walter Donaldson |
"Green St. Caper" |
|
Woody Shaw |
"Green Dolphin Street" |
1947 |
Bronislau Kaper |
"Good Bait" |
1944 |
Tadd Dameron, Count Basie |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Groovin' High" |
1945 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
"Whispering" |
1920 |
Vincent Rose |
"Hackensack" |
|
Thelonious Monk |
"Oh, Lady Be Good" |
1924 |
George Gershwin |
"Half Nelson" |
1956 |
Miles Davis |
"Lady Bird" |
1948 |
Tadd Dameron |
"Hot House" |
1945 |
Tadd Dameron |
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" |
1929 |
Cole Porter |
"I Hate You" |
|
Tete Montoliu |
"I Love You" |
1944 |
Cole Porter |
"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 |
"Impressions" |
1961 |
John Coltrane |
"So What" |
1959 |
Miles Davis |
"In a Mellow Tone" |
1939 |
Duke Ellington |
"Rose Room" |
1917 |
Art Hickman, Harry Williams |
"In Walked Bud" |
1947 |
Thelonious Monk |
"Blue Skies" |
1926 |
Irving Berlin |
"Infra Rae" |
|
Hank Mobley |
"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" |
1928 |
Sigmund Romberg |
"The Injuns" |
|
Donald Byrd |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
"Intoit" |
|
Stan Getz |
"A Night in Tunisia" |
1942 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
"Jack Sprat" |
|
Sonny Stitt |
"Blues for Alice" |
1951 |
Charlie Parker |
"Jahbero" |
|
Tadd Dameron |
"All the Things You Are" |
1939 |
Jerome Kern |
"Jay Bird" |
1946 |
J. J. Johnson |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Jay Jay" |
1946 |
J. J. Johnson |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Juicy Lucy" |
|
Horace Silver |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
"Ju-Ju" |
|
Lennie Tristano |
"Back Home Again in Indiana" |
1917 |
Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley |
"Kamman's A' Comin'" |
|
Oscar Pettiford |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"The Kangaroo" |
1953 |
Les Paul |
"Stompin' at the Savoy" |
1934 |
Edgar Sampson |
"Keen and Peechy" |
|
Woody Herman |
"Fine and Dandy" |
1930 |
Kay Swift |
"Ko-Ko"[5] |
1945 |
Charlie Parker |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
"Lazy Bird" |
|
John Coltrane |
"Lady Bird" |
1948 |
Tadd Dameron |
"Lee's Dream" |
|
Fred Hersch |
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" |
1940 |
Nacio Herb Brown |
"Lennie-Bird" |
|
Lennie Tristano |
"How High the Moon" |
1940 |
Morgan Lewis |
"Lennie's Pennies" |
|
Lennie Tristano |
"Pennies from Heaven" |
1936 |
Arthur Johnston |
"Lex" |
1960 |
Donald Byrd |
"Back Home Again in Indiana" |
1917 |
Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley |
"Little Rootie Tootie" |
|
Thelonious Monk |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Little Willie Leaps" |
|
Miles Davis |
"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" |
1937 |
Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn |
"Lullaby of Birdland" |
1952 |
George Shearing |
"Love Me or Leave Me" |
1928 |
Walter Donaldson |
"Mad Be Bop" |
1946 |
J. J. Johnson |
"Just You, Just Me" |
1929 |
Jesse Greer |
"The Man from Hyde Park" |
|
Harold Mabern |
"The Song Is You" |
1932 |
Jerome Kern |
"Marshmallow" |
|
Warne Marsh |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
"Mayreh" |
|
Horace Silver |
"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" |
1937 |
Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann |
"Meiji Stunt" |
|
Jim McNeely |
"Just in Time" |
1956 |
Jule Styne |
"Meteor" |
1956 |
Tal Farlow |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
"Mirror Lake" |
|
Idrees Sulieman |
"Wave" |
1967 |
Antonio Carlos Jobim |
"Moose the Mooche" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"My Little Suede Shoes" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"Jeepers Creepers" |
1938 |
Harry Warren |
"Nostalgia" |
|
Fats Navarro |
"Out of Nowhere" |
1931 |
Johnny Green |
"Not You Again" |
|
John Scofield |
"There Will Never Be Another You" |
1942 |
Harry Warren |
"Off the Cuff" |
|
Jim McNeely |
"It's You or No One" |
1963 |
Jule Styne |
"Oleo" |
1945 |
Sonny Rollins |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"On a Misty Night" |
|
Tadd Dameron |
"September in the Rain" |
1937 |
Harry Warren |
"One Liners" |
|
Mike Stern |
"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" |
1928 |
Sigmund Romberg |
"Ornithology" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker, Benny Harris |
"How High the Moon" |
1940 |
Morgan Lewis |
"Parker 51" |
|
Jimmy Raney |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
"Prince Albert" |
|
Kenny Dorham |
"All the Things You Are" |
1939 |
Jerome Kern |
"The Protagonist" |
|
Jack Cooper |
"Lover" |
1932 |
Richard Rodgers |
"Psalm" |
|
Jimmy Halperin |
"Darn That Dream" |
1939 |
Jimmy Van Heusen |
"Quasimodo" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"Embraceable You" |
1928 |
George Gershwin |
"Quicksilver" |
|
Horace Silver |
"Lover, Come Back to Me" |
1928 |
Sigmund Romberg |
"Raeba" |
|
Jimmy Halperin |
"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" |
1939 |
Richard Rodgers |
"Re-Re" |
|
Bob Mintzer |
"Back Home Again in Indiana" |
1917 |
Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley |
"Reets and I" |
|
Benny Harris |
"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" |
1937 |
Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn |
"The Red Tornado" |
|
Red Rodney |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
"Relaxin' With Lee" |
1950 |
Charlie Parker |
"Stompin' at the Savoy" |
1934 |
Edgar Sampson |
"Rhythm-a-Ning" |
1957 |
Thelonious Monk |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Rhodomagnetics" |
|
Wilbur Harden |
"Take the "A" Train" |
1939 |
Billy Strayhorn |
"Rifftide" |
|
Coleman Hawkins |
"Oh, Lady Be Good!" |
1924 |
George Gershwin |
"Room 608" |
|
Horace Silver |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Salt Peanuts" |
1942 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Salute to Birdland AKA Salute to the Bandbox" |
1954 |
Gigi Gryce |
"I'll Remember April" |
1942 |
Gene de Paul |
"Sax of a Kind" |
|
Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh |
"Fine and Dandy" |
1930 |
Kay Swift |
"Scrapple from the Apple" |
1947 |
Charlie Parker |
"Honeysuckle Rose" |
1929 |
Fats Waller |
"Serene" |
|
Eric Dolphy |
"Tenderly" |
1946 |
Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence |
"Seven, Come Eleven" |
|
Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Shelley" |
|
Red Rodney |
"Rosetta" |
1939 |
Earl Hines |
"Split Kick" |
|
Horace Silver |
"There Will Never Be Another You" |
1942 |
Harry Warren |
"Spotlite" |
|
Coleman Hawkins |
"Just You, Just Me" |
1929 |
Jesse Greer |
"Steeplechase" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Straight Life" |
|
Art Pepper |
"After You've Gone" |
1918 |
Turner Layton |
"Striver's Row" |
1957 |
Sonny Rollins |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
"Stupendous" |
|
Mel Broiles |
"'S Wonderful" |
1927 |
George Gershwin |
"Suspone" |
|
Mike Stern |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Sub-Atomic Dominant" |
|
Jimmy Halperin |
"Sweet Georgia Brown" |
1925 |
Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard |
"Subconscious Lee" |
|
Lee Konitz |
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" |
1929 |
Cole Porter |
"Sweet Clifford" |
|
Clifford Brown |
"Sweet Georgia Brown" |
1925 |
Ben Bernie |
"Sweet Thing" |
|
Rory Stuart |
"In Your Own Sweet Way" |
1955 |
Dave Brubeck |
"Tangibility" |
|
Arun Luthra |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"That's My Kick" |
1967 |
Erroll Garner |
"I Get A Kick Out Of You" |
1934 |
Cole Porter |
"The Theme" |
|
Miles Davis |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Third Event" |
|
Arun Luthra |
"Giant Steps" |
1959 |
John Coltrane |
"317 East 32nd Street" |
|
Lennie Tristano |
"Out of Nowhere" |
1931 |
Johnny Green |
"Tippin'" |
1956 |
Horace Silver |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Tour de Force" |
|
Dizzy Gillespie |
"Jeepers Creepers" |
1938 |
Harry Warren |
"Twelve" |
2000 |
Peter Erskine |
"Easy to Love" |
1934 |
Cole Porter |
"Two in Love" |
2000 |
Jack Cooper |
"I Love You" |
1944 |
Cole Porter |
"Vodka" |
|
Mal Waldron |
"Yesterdays" |
1933 |
Jerome Kern |
"Wail" |
|
Bud Powell |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Walk, Don't Run"[not jazz] |
1954 |
Johnny Smith |
"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" |
1928 |
Sigmund Romberg |
"Waltz New" |
|
Jim Hall |
"Someday My Prince Will Come" |
1937 |
Frank Churchill |
"Warmin Up a Riff" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
"Weeja" |
1956 |
Elmo Hope |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
"Wells Fargo" |
|
Wilbur Harden |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
"Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am" |
|
Charles Mingus |
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" |
1929 |
Cole Porter |
"What Love?" |
|
Charles Mingus |
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" |
1929 |
Cole Porter |
"Wow" |
1949 |
Lennie Tristano |
"You Can Depend on Me" |
1931 |
Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines |
"Yardbird Suite" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
"Rosetta" |
1939 |
Earl Hines |
"Yellow Dolphin Street" |
1977 |
Tete Montoliu |
"On Green Dolphin Street" |
1947 |
Bronislau Kaper |
"Zog's Jog" |
|
James Morrison |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
"Dream Step" |
|
Dick Oatts |
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" |
1940 |
Nacio Herb Brown |