List of jazz contrafacts

A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by musicologists in the 1970s and 1980s.^{[citation needed]}

Contrafacts by notable jazz artists include:

See also

• '50s progression

References

Further reading

• Aebersold, Jamey (1982). Charlie Parker Omnibook. Criterion. ISBN 0-7692-6053-5.
• Baker, David (2006). How To Play Bebop, Volume 3. Alfred. ISBN 0-7390-2182-6.
• Crawford, Richard (June 30, 2000). "George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (1930)". The American Musical Landscape: The Business of Musicianship from Billings to Gershwin. Ernest Bloch Lectures. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. pp. 213 ff. ISBN 9780520224827. OCLC 44421950. Retrieved 22 December 2023. A less formatted but complete version can be found at The American Musical Landscape: The Business of Musicianship from Billings to Gershwin.
• Markewich, Maurice (Reese) (1974). The new expanded bibliography of jazz compositions based on the chord progressions of standard tunes. Markewich. ISBN 0960016058.
• Owens, Thomas (1982). Bebop: The Music and Its Players. Oxford. ISBN 0-1951-0651-2.
• Sher, Chuck (2005). The New Real Book, Volume 1. Sher Music. ISBN 0-9614701-4-3.
• Sher, Chuck (2005). The New Real Book, Volume 2. Sher Music. ISBN 0-9614701-7-8.
• Sher, Chuck (2005). The New Real Book, Volume 3. Sher Music. ISBN 1-883217-03-2.

External links

• Searchable Realbook Index at www.seventhstring.co.uk
• Jazz era transition to Bebop: "Hot House" and the revolutionary aspect "Charlie Parker I: – Hot House", article by Bernard Chazelle (Princeton, Collège de France), Sep. 9, 2008