What is contrafact musical composition

A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing

one but introducing a new melody. 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

Contrafact
Composer

26-2

John Coltrane

Ablution

Lennie Tristano

Original Tune

Confirmation

All the Things

You Are

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Composer

Charlie Parker

Jerome Kern

All The Things You Could

Be By Now If Sigmund
Freud's Wife Was Your

Charles Mingus

All the Things

You Are

Jerome Kern

Mother

An Oscar for Treadwell

Charlie Parker

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Anthropology

Charlie Parker

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Apache Dance

George Coleman

Cherokee

Ray Noble

Apple Jump

Dexter Gordon

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Background Music

Warne Marsh

All of Me

Back Home in Brooklyn

Arun Luthra

Back Home

with Donna

Gerald Marks, Seymour

Simons

Ballard

Again in Indiana MacDonald, James F.

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Original Tune

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Composer

Hanley

What Is This
Barry's Bop

Fats Navarro

Thing Called

Cole Porter

Love?

Lover Come

Bean and the Boys

Coleman Hawkins

Bebop Romp

Fats Navarro

Fine and Dandy

Kay Swift

Because of Guns

Vijay Iyer

Hey Joe

Billy Roberts

Bird Gets the Worm

Charlie Parker

Bird of Paradise

Charlie Parker

Blue Serge

Serge Chaloff

Cherokee

Ray Noble

Blue Silver

Blue Mitchell

Peace

Horace Silver

Blue's Theme

Blue Mitchell

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Boston Bernie

Dexter Gordon

All the Things

Jerome Kern

Back to Me

Lover Come
Back to Me

All the Things

You Are

Sigmund Romberg

Sigmund Romberg

Jerome Kern

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Original Tune

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Composer

You Are

Sweet Georgia

Bright Mississippi

Thelonious Monk

Bud's Bubble

Bud Powell

Byas a Drink

Don Byas

Celebrity

Charlie Parker

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Celia

Bud Powell

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Chasin' the Bird

Charlie Parker

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Chick's Tune

Chick Corea

Chippie

Ornette Coleman

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Chronology

Ornette Coleman

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Serene

Eric Dolphy

Tenderly

Brown

I Got Rhythm

Stompin' at the
Savoy

You Stepped Out

of a Dream

Ben Bernie

George Gershwin

Edgar Sampson

Nacio Herb Brown

Walter Gross, Jack

Lawrence

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Original Tune

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Composer

Come Rain or

Johnny Mercer, Harold

Come Shine

Arlen

Charlie Parker

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Cotton Tail

Duke Ellington

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Countdown

John Coltrane

Tune Up

Miles Davis

Crazeology

Benny Harris

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

C.T.A.

Jimmy Heath

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Dear John

Freddie Hubbard

Giant Steps

John Coltrane

Dewey Square

Charlie Parker

Oh, Lady Be

George Gershwin, Ira

Good!

Gershwin

Denial

Miles Davis

Confirmation

Charlie Parker

Dexterity

Charlie Parker

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Dig

Miles Davis

Sweet Georgia

Ben Bernie, Maceo

Brown

Pinkard

Come Fog

Don Grolnick

Constellation

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Original Tune

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Composer

Richard

Diggin' Diz

Dizzy Gillespie

Lover

Dizzie Atmosphere

Dizzy Gillespie

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

John McLaughlin

Giant Steps

John Coltrane

Charlie

Back Home

Do You Hear the Voices

You Left Behind?

Donna Lee

Parker and Miles Davis Again in Indiana

Rodgers, Lorenz Hart

Ballard
MacDonald, James F.
Hanley

Benny
Don't Be That Way

Goodman, Edgar
Sampson,Mitchell

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Parish

Doujie

Wes Montgomery

Confirmation

Charlie Parker

Doxy

Sonny Rollins

Ja-Da

Bob Carleton

Dream Stepper

Lee Konitz

The Eternal Triangle

Sonny Stitt

You Stepped Out

of a Dream

Dizzy
Atmosphere

Nacio Herb Brown

Dizzy Gillespie

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Contrafact

Evidence

Contrafact
Composer

Thelonious Monk

Original Tune

Just You, Just

Me

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Composer

Jesse Greer

You'd Be So
Feather Bed

Ted Brown

Nice To Come

Cole Porter

Home To

Flintstones Theme

Bryson, Goldberg

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Fried Bananas

Dexter Gordon

Fifth House

John Coltrane

Four Brothers

Jimmy Giuffre

52nd Street Theme

Thelonious Monk

I Got Rhythm

Frantic Fancies

Bud Powell

'S Wonderful

Freight Train

Tommy Flanagan

Blues for Alice

Charlie Parker

Fungi Mama

Blue Mitchell

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

It Could Happen Jimmy Van

to You

Heusen, Johnny Burke

Hot House

Tadd Dameron

Jeepers
Creepers

Harry Warren

George Gershwin

George Gershwin, Ira

Gershwin

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Futurity

Gigi Gryce

Garage Band

Arun Luthra

Get It

Bud Powell

Green St. Caper

Woody Shaw

Good Bait

Tadd Dameron, Count

Basie

Groovin' High

Dizzy Gillespie

Hackensack

Thelonious Monk

Half Nelson

Miles Davis

Original Tune

There Will Never

Be Another You

How About You?

Love Me or
Leave Me

Green Dolphin
Street

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Composer

Harry Warren

Burton Lane, Ralph

Freed

Walter Donaldson

Bronislau Kaper

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Whispering

Vincent Rose

Oh, Lady Be
Good

Lady Bird

George Gershwin

Tadd Dameron

What Is This
Hot House

Tadd Dameron

Thing Called

Cole Porter

Love?

I Hate You

Tete Montoliu

I Love You

Cole Porter

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Original Tune

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Composer

Impressions

John Coltrane

So What

In a Mellow Tone

Duke Ellington

Rose Room

In Walked Bud

Thelonious Monk

Blue Skies

Infra Rae

Hank Mobley

The Injuns

Donald Byrd

Intoit

Stan Getz

Jack Sprat

Sonny Stitt

Jahbero

Tadd Dameron

Juicy Lucy

Horace Silver

Confirmation

Charlie Parker

Keen and Peechy

Woody Herman

Fine and Dandy

Kay Swift

Softly, as in a
Morning Sunrise

Cherokee

A Night In
Tunisia

Blues for Alice

All the Things

You Are

Miles Davis

Art Hickman, Harry

Williams

Irving Berlin

Sigmund Romberg

Ray Noble

Dizzy Gillespie

Charlie Parker

Jerome Kern

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Ko Ko

Charlie Parker

Lee's Dream

Fred Hersch

Little Willie Leaps

Miles Davis

Lullaby of Birdland

George Shearing

Original Tune

Cherokee

You Stepped Out

of a Dream

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Composer

Ray Noble

Nacio Herb Brown

All God's Chillun Bronislaw Kaper, Walter

Got Rhythm

Love Me or
Leave Me

Jurmann,Gus Kahn

Walter Donaldson

The Man from Hyde Park Harold Mabern

The Song is You Jerome Kern

Marshmallow

Warne Marsh

Cherokee

Mayreh

Horace Silver

Meiji Stunt

Ray Noble

All God's Chillun Bronislaw Kaper, Walter

Got Rhythm

Jurmann,Gus Kahn

Jim McNeely

Just in Time

Jule Styne

Mirror Lake

Idrees Sulieman

Wave

Antonio Carlos Jobim

Moose the Mooche

Charlie Parker

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

My Little Suede Shoes

Charlie Parker

Jeepers

Johnny Mercer

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Original Tune

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Composer

Creepers

Nostalgia

Fats Navarro

Not You Again

John Scofield

Off the Cuff

Jim McNeely

Oleo

Sonny Rollins

On a Misty Night

Tadd Dameron

Ornithology

Out of Nowhere

There Will Never

Be Another You

It's You or No
One

I Got Rhythm

September in the
Rain

Charlie Parker, Benny How High The

Johnny Green

Harry Warren

Jule Styne

George Gershwin

Harry Warren

Morgan Lewis

Harris

Moon

Parker 51

Jimmy Raney

Cherokee

Prince Albert

Kenny Dorham

The Protagonist

Jack Cooper

Lover

Richard Rodgers

Quasimodo

Charlie Parker

Embraceable

George Gershwin, Ira

All the Things

You Are

Ray Noble

Jerome Kern

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Original Tune

You

Quicksilver

Horace Silver

Lover Come
Back to Me

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Composer

Gershwin

Sigmund Romberg

I Didn't Know
Raeba

Jimmy Halperin

What Time It

Richard Rodgers

Was

Re-Re

Bob Mintzer

Back Home
Again in Indiana

Ballard
MacDonald, James F.
Hanley

Rhythm-a-Ning

Thelonious Monk

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Room 608

Horace Silver

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Salt Peanuts

Dizzy Gillespie

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Salute to Birdland AKA

Salute to the Bandbox

Gigi Gryce

Split Kick

Horace Silver

Suspone

Mike Stern

I'll Remember
April

There Will Never

Be Another You

I Got Rhythm

Gene de Paul

Harry Warren

George Gershwin

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Contrafact

Sub-Atomic Dominant

Contrafact
Composer

Jimmy Halperin

Original Tune

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Composer

Sweet Georgia

Ben Bernie, Maceo

Brown

Pinkard

What Is This
Subconscious Lee

Lee Konitz

Thing Called

Cole Porter

Love?

'S Wonderful

George Gershwin, Ira

Stupendous

Mel Broiles

Sweet Clifford

Clifford Brown

Sweet Thing

Rory Stuart

Tangibility

Arun Luthra

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

The Theme

Miles Davis

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Third Event

Arun Luthra

Giant Steps

John Coltrane

317 East 32nd Street

Lennie Tristano

Out of Nowhere

Johnny Green

Thriving from a Riff

Charlie Parker

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Sweet Georgia
Brown

In Your Own
Sweet Way

Gershwin

Ben Bernie

Dave Brubeck

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Original Tune

Jeepers

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Composer

Tour de Force

Dizzy Gillespie

Twelve

Peter Erskine

Easy to Love

Cole Porter

Two in Love

Jack Cooper

I Love You

Cole Porter

Vodka

Mal Waldron

Yesterdays

Jerome Kern

Wail

Bud Powell

I Got Rhythm

George Gershwin

Walk, Don't Run

Johnny Smith

Creepers

Softly, as in a
Morning Sunrise

Some Day My

Harry Warren

Sigmund
Romberg, Oscar
Hammerstein II

Waltz New

Jim Hall

Warmin Up a Riff

Charlie Parker

Cherokee

Ray Noble

Weeja

Elmo Hope

Confirmation

Charlie Parker

Wham Bam Thank You

Ma'am

Prince Will Come

Frank Churchill

What Is This
Charles Mingus

Thing Called
Love?

Cole Porter

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Contrafact

Contrafact
Composer

Original Tune

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Composer

What Is This
What Love?

Charles Mingus

Thing Called

Cole Porter

Love?

Yardbird Suite

Charlie Parker

Rosetta

Earl Hines

Zog's Jog

James Morrison

Cherokee

Ray Noble

Coupe de Ville

Mike Stern

There Is No

Isham Jones, Marty

Greater Love

Symes

One Liners

Mike Stern

Softly, as in a
Morning Sunrise

Sigmund Romberg

Jimmy Van Heusen

Psalm

Jimmy Halperin

Darn That Dream