Examples
The jazz blues is a very basic, common and versatile and blues heads come in all shapes and sizes. Here are some tunes with various blues forms:
- Billie's Bounce (Charlie Parker)
- Blues for Alice (Parker)
- C Jam Blues (Duke Ellington)
- Cousin Mary (John Coltrane)
- Footprints (Wayne Shorter)
- Mambo Influenciado (Chucho Valdès)
- Mr. P.C. (Coltrane)
- Sonnymoon for Two (Sonny Rollins)
- Tenor Madness (Rollins)
Rhythm changes are an important form for jazz musicians to know, based loosely on the chord changes to the Gershwin brothers' I've Got Rhythm:
- Anthropology (Parker)
- Bouncing With Bud (Bud Powell)
- Cottontail (Ellington)
- Dexterity (Parker)
- Lester Leaps In (Lester Young)
- Moose the Mooche (Parker)
- Oleo (Rollins)
- Red Cross (Parker)
- Rhythm-a-ning (Thelonious Monk)
- Salt Peanuts (Dizzy Gillespie)
- Tiny Capers (Clifford Brown)
- Wee/Allen's Alley (Denzil Best)
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