Ornithology is a contrafact of "How High The Moon"
"Oleo" and "Moose the Mooche" are contrafacts of "I Got Rhythm"--there
are many, many others
"Au Privave" and "Now's the Time" are blues contrafacts. Gosh, how many
of those must there be?
The list goes on. Most of the early bebop tunes were contrafacts, which
really were a means of getting around copyright restrictions. That is,
jazz musicians were accustomed to soloing over standard changes, but
could not record (or really even play, technically) the tunes without
paying royalties. Since you can't copyright a set of changes, they
simply wrote new melodies over the familiar chords, and voila--
contrafacts were born. Actually, our classically trained colleagues
would probably tell you that contrafacts predate jazz by a good measure
-- many of our best-known composers wrote pieces based on folk tunes,
traditionals, hymns, and so on.
If anyone is interested, I'll post a (hopefully one day
comprehensive) list of contrafacts and their sources on Reed's or Dan's
website (if they'll permit).
peace,
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