https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=betIOVwks8s
I just love how JJ takes his ideas, connects them and develops them. I like how he uses runs functionally to move and develop ideas rather than just impress people by doing a lot of runs which I don’t like as much.
Here’s the list of 20 other contrafacts and my sources.
Sources:
1) wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_contrafacts ,
2) http://blindman.fr.yuku.com/topic/19791#.VQcRKGRR45g,
3) https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090322201138AA3FOqH
4) http://www.jazztrumpet.com/lessons/contrafacts.html
1 An Oscar for Treadwell
charlie parker
2 Anthropology
charlie parker
3 Apple Jump
dexter gordon
4 Dig
Miles Davis
5 Salt Peanuts
Charlie Parker – Dizzy Gillespie
6 Syntax
JJ Johnson
7 Tiptoe
JJ Johnson
8 Turnpike
JJ Johnson
Stay On It
Dizzy Gillespie
Cottontail
Duke Ellington
Passport
Bird
Moose The Mooche
Bird
Jumpin at the Woodside
Count Basie
Hoe Down
Oliver Nelson
Room 608
Horace Silver
O Go Mo
Kai Winding
Chant of the Groove
Fats Waller
XYZ
Earl Hines
Something In B Flat
Benny Golson
Theme of No Repeat
Tadd Dameron