Episode 47, Jazz Contrafacts
from Discovering Jazz Hosted by Larry Saidman
Contrafact refers to a new melody written over the chord sequence of an older tune. And there are a lot of very popular jazz tunes that have done just that! In this program I play a few of them. You’ll find out what old tune has had the most jazz
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