I have a bass chart for "So What" that someone wrote down for me and most of it consists of nothing more than "D-7" and underneath it is "16" bracketed between two lines. Then next to it says "Eb-7" with an "8" underneath it bracketed between two lines. It just means to walk a D-7 (really a Dorian D) for 16 bars and then an Eb-7 for 8 bars. No staff lines, no slash marks, no nothing. It's up to the player to chose what walk to do and to count it off correctly. Stripped down anymore than that is pretty much a head arrangement.
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