contrafact: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A contrafact is a new musical composition built out of an already existing one,
most often a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure. As a
compositional device, it was of particular importance in the 1930s/1940s
development of bop, since it allowed jazz musicians to create new pieces for
performance and recording on which they could immediately improvise, without
having to seek permission or pay publisher fees for copyrighted materials
(while melodies can be copyrighted, the underlying harmonic structure cannot
be).
Contrafacts are not to be confused with musical quotations, which consist in
borrowing rhythms or melodic figures from an existing composition.
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list compiled by Satoshi Inoue
・Rose Room/In A Mellow Tone(Ellington)
・Blue Skies/*In Walked Bud(Monk)
・September In The Rain/On A Misty Night(T.Dameron)
・All The Things You Are/Prince Albert(K.Dorham)
・What Is The Thing Called Love/Hot House(T.Dameron),Subconsious Lee(L.Konitz)
・How High The Moon/Ornithology,Satellite(Coltrane)
・Honeysuckle Rose/Marmaduke(Parker),*Scrapple From The Apple(Parker)
・Indiana/Donna Lee(C.Parker)
・Just You Just Me/Evidence(Monk)
・Out Of Nowhere/Casbah(Dameron),Nostalgia (Navarro)
・There Will Never Be Another You/Split Kick(Silver)/You or Me(Heath)
・I Got Rhythm/Moose The Mooche,Oleo,The Theme,Anthropology,The
Flintstones,Lester Leaps In,Cotton Tail Funji Mama and many others
・Lover Come Back to Me/Quicksilver(H.Silver),Bird Gets The Worm(C.Parker),Bean
And The Boys(C.Hawkins)
・Summertime/Four On Six(W.Montgomery)
・Sweet Georgia Brown/Dig=AKA Donna(McLean),Bright Mississippi(Monk)
・Lady Be Good/Hackensack(Monk),Rifftide(Hawkins)
・Love For Sale/Ezz-Thetic(Russell)
・Tune Up/Countdown(Coltrane)
・Over The Rainbow/Valse Hot(Rollins)
・Someday my Prince will Come/Walts New(J.Hall)
・I'm In The Mood For Love/Moodys Mood For Love(J.Moody)
・Whispering/Groovin' High(Gillespie)
・It Could Happen To You/Fried Bananas(D.Gordon)
・Lady Bird(Dameron)/Half Nelson(Davis)
・Embraceable You/Quasimodo(Charlie Parker)
・All God's Chillun Got Rhythm/Little Willie Leaps(M.Davis),Visitation(P.
Cambers)
・You and the Night and the Music/Night Waltz(Toshiko Akiyoshi)
・Woody'n You/Omicron(P. Cambers)
・A Night In Tunisia/Liberia(Coltrane)
・Lullaby of the Leaves /Denzil's Best(Flanagan)
・You Stepped Out of a Dream/ Chick's Tune (Corea)
・You’re driving me crazy/Moten Swing
・Love Me Or Leave Me/ Lullaby of Birdland(Shearing)
・Confirmation(Parker)/Juicy Lucy(Silver)
・Pennies From Heaven/You're Not The Kind(Golson)/Lennies Pennies(Tristano)
・Giant Steps/Dear John(Hubbard)
* {Bridge has different changes}
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Your jazz contrafact project,
Write an original melody over the chord changes of a standard tune.
