| Contrafact |
Year |
Contrafact composer |
Original tune |
Year |
Original composer |
| "26-2"[citation needed] |
1960 |
John Coltrane |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
| "317 East 32nd Street" |
|
Lennie Tristano |
"Out of Nowhere" |
1931 |
Johnny Green |
| "52nd Street Theme" |
1944 |
Thelonious Monk |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
| "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 |
| "Anatomy" |
|
Mal Waldron |
"All the Things You Are" |
1939 |
Jerome Kern |
| "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 |
| "Back Home in Brooklyn with Donna" |
|
Arun Luthra |
"Back Home Again in Indiana" |
1917 |
James F. Hanley |
| "Background Music" |
|
Warne Marsh |
"All of Me" |
1931 |
Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons |
| "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'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 |
| "C.T.A." |
|
Jimmy Heath |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
| "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 |
| "Chasm" |
|
Julian Adderley |
"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 |
| "Dear John" |
1990 |
Freddie Hubbard |
"Giant Steps" |
1959 |
John Coltrane |
| "Denial" |
|
Miles Davis |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
| "Dewey Square" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"Oh, Lady Be Good!" |
1924 |
George Gershwin |
| "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] - partly]" |
1918 |
Bob Carleton |
| "Dream Step" |
|
Dick Oatts |
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" |
1940 |
Nacio Herb Brown |
| "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 |
| "Fifth House" |
|
John Coltrane |
"Hot House" |
1945 |
Tadd Dameron |
| "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 |
| "For Regulars Only" |
|
Dexter Gordon |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
| "Frantic Fancies" |
|
Bud Powell |
"'S Wonderful" |
1927 |
George Gershwin |
| "Freight Trane" |
|
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 |
| "Good Bait" |
1944 |
Tadd Dameron, Count Basie |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
| "Green St. Caper" |
|
Woody Shaw |
"Green Dolphin Street" |
1947 |
Bronislau Kaper |
| "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 |
| "I Want More" |
|
Dexter Gordon |
"All the Things You Are" |
1939 |
Jerome Kern |
| "Ice Freezes Red" |
|
Fats Navarro |
"Back Home Again in Indiana" |
1917 |
James F. Hanley |
| "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 |
| "Infinity Promenade" |
|
Shorty Rogers |
"Good Bait" |
1944 |
Tadd Dameron |
| "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 |
| "It's You" |
1996 |
Lee Konitz |
"It's You or No One" |
1963 |
Jule Styne |
| "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 |
| "Jayne" |
|
Ornette Coleman |
"Out of Nowhere" |
1931 |
Johnny Green |
| "Ju-Ju" |
|
Lennie Tristano |
"Back Home Again in Indiana" |
1917 |
Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley |
| "Juicy Lucy" |
|
Horace Silver |
"Confirmation" |
1946 |
Charlie Parker |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Liberia" |
1964 |
John Coltrane |
"A Night in Tunisia" |
1941 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
| "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 |
| "Omicron" |
1956 |
Donald Byrd |
"Woody'n You" |
1943 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
| "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 |
| "An Oscar for Treadwell" |
|
Charlie Parker |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
| "Out a Day" |
|
Franck Amsallem |
"Night and Day" |
1932 |
Cole Porter |
| "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 |
| "The Red Tornado" |
|
Red Rodney |
"Cherokee" |
1938 |
Ray Noble |
| "Reets and I" |
|
Benny Harris |
"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" |
1937 |
Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn |
| "Relaxin' With Lee" |
1950 |
Charlie Parker |
"Stompin' at the Savoy" |
1934 |
Edgar Sampson |
| "Rhodomagnetics" |
|
Wilbur Harden |
"Take the "A" Train" |
1939 |
Billy Strayhorn |
| "Rhythm-a-Ning" |
1957 |
Thelonious Monk |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
| "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 |
| "Satellite" |
1964 |
John Coltrane |
"How High the Moon" |
1940 |
Morgan Lewis |
| "Sax of a Kind" |
|
Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh |
"Fine and Dandy" |
1930 |
Kay Swift |
| "Scrapple from the Apple" |
1947 |
Charlie Parker |
"Honeysuckle Rose; bridge "I Got Rhythm" |
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 Feelin's" |
1960 |
Hank Mobley |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
| "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 |
| "Sub-Atomic Dominant" |
|
Jimmy Halperin |
"Sweet Georgia Brown" |
1925 |
Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard |
| "Suburban Eyes" |
1947 |
Ike Quebec |
"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" |
1937 |
Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn |
| "Subconscious Lee" |
|
Lee Konitz |
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" |
1929 |
Cole Porter |
| "Suspone" |
|
Mike Stern |
"I Got Rhythm" |
1930 |
George Gershwin |
| "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 |
| "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 (song)|Rosetta], except measure two]" |
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 |
