“My Little Suede Shoes” by Charlie Parker and it was released in 1952 on his album South Of The Border.
It is very possible that Bird was very much inspired by these two French songs “Pedro Gomez” (melody of the A section) and “Le Petit Cireur Noir” (melody of the B section). Listen to these tracks in the playlist and let me know what you think!
This 32-bar AABA song has a simple melody and the harmonic progression is also fairly simple as it does not modulate but it has secondary dominants and we can have fun with reharmonization.
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14 comments on “My Little Suede Shoes”
Here I practice the first II subV I phrase in the whole tone transposing cycle and then in the major third cycle using the harmonic progression from Have You Met Miss Jones:
Nice Alex to play a duo with you, your musicianship and your skill woah !!!
My duo with Pierre 🙂
A first quick try on my little suede shoes
it’s not perfect, there are some mistakes…
My Play Along with my bassline 2 latin choruses 2 swing choruses and a final latin chorus
Great Pierre! I’ll try to record a version with your bass line this month 🙂
Thanks Pierre. I try to play with you!
Hello Alex, i’ll do it!!!
Play along with Mr Sunny bassline
Maybe Pierre Gros could provide us his bass line!
and this one by Paul Bley https://youtu.be/5ERnDW7IP0Y
another version Eddie Daniels, Hank Jones, Kenny Washington, Richard Davis with some nice licks by Eddie https://youtu.be/esLhjbxXhnM