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BLUES HEADS (nothing but the blues!)


Below are all tunes based on the 12-bar Blues. Have your music ready and watch the music as you listen to the audio references:
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Dates shown are recording dates, not release dates


Tune Title (audio) Composer (Bb parts) Concert Key


Route 66 Bobby Troup F Major


Au Privave Charlie Parker F Major
Barbados (1949) Charlie Parker F Major
Billie's Bounce Charlie Parker F Major
Bloomdido (1950) Charlie Parker Bb Major
Blues For Alice Charlie Parker F Major
Now's The Time Charlie Parker F Major


Mumbles Clark Terry Eb Major


The Blues Walk Clifford Brown Bb Major
Sandu Clifford Brown Eb Major


Blue 'N Boogie, Miles Davis ver. Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli Bb Major
Trumpet Blues Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge G Major


C Jam Blues (1942) Duke Ellington C Major


Birdlike Freddie Hubbard F Major
Blues For Brenda Freddie Hubbard Bb Minor


Dr. Jackle (1966) Jackie McLean F Major

Isotope Joe Henderson C Major


Israel John Carisi D Minor


Bass Blues John Coltrane Ab Major
Bessie's Blues John Coltrane Eb Major
Blue Train John Coltrane Eb Major
Chasin' The Train (1961) John Coltrane F Major
Cousin Mary John Coltrane Ab Major
Equinox John Coltrane C# Minor
Mr. P.C. (1960) John Coltrane C Minor
Some Other Blues John Coltrane F Major
Trane's Blues (1956) John Coltrane Bb Major


Blues By Five Miles Davis Bb Major
Vierd Blues Miles Davis Bb Major
Walkin' Miles Davis F Major


Bag's Groove (1954) Milt Jackson F Major


Blues in the Closet Oscar Pettiford G Major (the audio is in G; some books have it in F or Ab)


Blue Seven Sonny Rollins Bb Major
Tenor Madness (1956) Sonny Rollins Bb Major


Blue Monk (1954), 2nd audio ref Thelonious Monk Bb Major


The Thumb Wes Montgomery G Major









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