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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: Rest your mouse over the title link to see the personnel (or click here for a page showing personnel below each link) Dates shown are recording dates, not release dates Master file (all blues heads, .pdf file) Backing tracks: Blues in concert Bb: (qn=100, qn=120, qn=140, qn=160) (4 choruses each) Blues in concert C: (qn=100, qn=120, qn=140, qn=160, qn=180, qn=200, qn=220, qn=240, qn=260) (4 choruses each) Blues in concert F: (qn=100, qn=120, qn=140, qn=160, qn=180, qn=200) (6 choruses each) Blues in concert G: (qn=100, qn=120, qn=140, qn=160) Blues in concert Fmin: (qn=120, qn=144) (5 choruses each) Tune Title (audio) Composer (Bb parts) (concert) Concert Key Highest Trumpet Note Au Privave (1951) Charlie Parker F Major Bag's Groove (1954) Milt Jackson F Major Bags and Trane (1959) Milt Jackson C Minor Barbados (1949) Charlie Parker F Major Bass Blues (1957) John Coltrane Ab Major Bessie's Blues (1964) John Coltrane Eb Major Billie's Bounce (1945) Charlie Parker F Major Birdlike (1961) Freddie Hubbard F Major Birk's Works (1957) Dizzy Gillespie C Minor (F minor) Bloomdido (1950) Charlie Parker Bb Major Blue Monk (1966 v1), (1966 v2) Thelonious Monk Bb Major Blue 'N Boogie (Ver.1, 1945), (Ver.2, 1954) Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli Bb Major Blue Seven (1956) Sonny Rollins Bb Major Blue Train (1957) John Coltrane Eb Major Blues By Five (1956) Miles Davis Bb Major Blues For Alice (1955) Charlie Parker F Major Blues For Brenda (1960) Freddie Hubbard Bb Minor Blues in the Closet (1958) Oscar Pettiford G Major (the audio is in G; some books have it in F or Ab) Blues Walk, The (1955) Clifford Brown Bb Major C Jam Blues (1942) Duke Ellington C Major (in concert Bb) Chasin' The Trane (1961) John Coltrane F Major Cool Blues (1947) Charlie Parker C Major Cousin Mary (1959) John Coltrane Ab Major Doodlin' (1955) Horace Silver Db Major Dr. Jekyll (1955) Jackie McLean F Major Dr. Jackle (1958) Jackie McLean F Major Equinox (1960) John Coltrane C# Minor Isotope (1964) Joe Henderson C Major Israel (1949) John Carisi D Minor Mr. P.C. (1959) John Coltrane C Minor Mumbles (1990) Clark Terry Eb Major Now's The Time (1953) Charlie Parker F Major Route 66 (1946) Bobby Troup F Major Sandu (1955) Clifford Brown Eb Major Short Stop (1953) Shorty Rogers Eb Major Some Other Blues (1959) John Coltrane F Major Tenor Madness (1956) Sonny Rollins Bb Major The Thumb (1966) Wes Montgomery G Major Trane's Blues (1956) John Coltrane Bb Major Trumpet Blues (1954) Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge G Major Twisted (1949) Wardell Gray Bb Major Vierd Blues (19??) Miles Davis Bb Major Walkin' (1954) Miles Davis F Major (TTN ver 2)

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