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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 Backing tracks: Blues in concert Bb: (qn=100, qn=120, qn=140, qn=160) Blues in concert C: ( qn=90, qn=100, qn=120, qn=140, qn=160) Blues in concert F: (qn=120, qn=140, qn=160) Blues in concert E: (qn=120, qn=140, qn=160) No bass: Blues in concert E: (qn=108, qn=120, qn=140, qn=160) Tune Title (audio) Composer (concert parts) (Bb parts) Concert Key Au Privave (1951) Charlie Parker F Major Bag's Groove (1954) Milt Jackson F Major 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 7 (1956) Sonny Rollins Bb Major Blue Trane (1957) John Coltrane C Minor 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) The Blues Walk (1955) Clifford Brown Bb Major C Jam Blues (1942) Duke Ellington C Major Chasin' The Trane (1961) John Coltrane F Major Cousin Mary (1959) John Coltrane Ab 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 Vierd Blues (19??) Miles Davis Bb Major Walkin' (1954) Miles Davis F Major

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