Contrafact | Year | Contrafact composer | Original Tune | Year | Original composer |
"26-2" | 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, Maceo Pinkard |
"Bud's Bubble" | | Bud Powell | "I Got Rhythm" | 1930 | George Gershwin |
"Byas a Drink" | | Don Byas | "Stompin' at the Savoy" | 1934 | Edgar Sampson |
"Casbah" | | Tadd Dameron | "Out of Nowhere" | 1931 | Johnny Green |
"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 |
"Coffee Pot" | | J. J. Johnson | "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" | 1937 | Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn |
"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 |
"Dextivity" | 1947 | Dexter Gordon | "Take the "A" Train" | 1939 | Billy Strayhorn |
"Dextrose" | 1947 | Dexter Gordon | "Fine and Dandy" | 1930 | Kay Swift |
"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 |
"Fats Blows" | 1947 | Fats Navarro | "Oh, Lady Be Good" | 1924 | George Gershwin |
"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" | 1947 | Miles Davis | "Lady Bird" | 1939 | 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 |
"Jayne" | | Ornette Coleman | "Out of Nowhere" | 1931 | Johnny Green |
"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 |
"Kokochee" | | Teddy Charles | "Cherokee" | 1938 | Ray Noble |
"Lazy Bird" | | John Coltrane | "Lady Bird" | 1939 | 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 |
"Lester Leaps In" | 1939 | Lester Young | "I Got Rhythm" | 1930 | George Gershwin |
"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" | 1947 | 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 | Antônio 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 |
"Never Felt That Way Before" | | Sonny Stitt | "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" | 1937 | Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn |
"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 |
"Suburban Eyes" | 1947 | Ike Quebec | "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" | 1937 | Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn |
"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, Maceo Pinkard |
"Sweet Thing" | | Rory Stuart | "In Your Own Sweet Way" | 1955 | Dave Brubeck |
"Tangibility" | | Arun Luthra | "I Got Rhythm" | 1930 | George Gershwin |
"Teapot" | | J. J. Johnson | "Sweet Georgia Brown" | 1925 | Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard |
"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 |
"Tide" | 1970 | Antônio Carlos Jobim | "Wave" | 1967 | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
"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" | 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 |