Will Davis Trio

[michel1969]

Who has ever seen it ? has it ? title "have mood, will call" on Sue Lp 1011.

[Peter A]

Never seen or heard it.

I read somewhere that Bill Davis was a pianoplayer from Detroit who played with Howard McGhee during the 40's. Would he be the same Bill Davis who played piano on Kenny Burrel's Soul Call?

[clifford_thornton]

I've never seen/heard of anything on "Sue." Strange...

[michel1969]

I think that it IS the Bill Davis from Detroit area that played with Howard Mc Ghee, because Bob Setlik from Carcityrecords on Detroit confirmed that to me. And Sue was a Detroit label. This record shows a beautiful cheese cake cover with a girl on the telephone, lying on a bed, and was the first issued by Sue on 1958. Sue was the label of Ray Bryant, Jimmy Mc Griff zmong other (more r'n'b soul oriented. Well it seems that i've answered to my own question.... But i'd like te get one copy of this one !!!!!!

[ejp626]

  Michel said:

I think that it IS the Bill Davis from Detroit area that played with Howard Mc Ghee, because Bob Setlik from Carcityrecords on Detroit confirmed that to me. And Sue was a Detroit label. This record shows a beautiful cheese cake cover with a girl on the telephone, lying on a bed, and was the first issued by Sue on 1958. Sue was the label of Ray Bryant, Jimmy Mc Griff zmong other (more r'n'b soul oriented. Well it seems that i've answered to my own question.... But i'd like te get one copy of this one !!!!!!

On the pricey side, but Dusty Groove does have this. I actually nearly picked it up but decided I had bought enough today.

[kh1958]

  clifford_thornton said:

I've never seen/heard of anything on "Sue." Strange...

I have two Ray Bryant LPs on Sue, but that's it.

[Big Beat Steve]

FWIW, Ike & Tina Turner did some stuff on Sue in the early 60s before the "River Deep Mountain High" etc. smash hits period. That alone (plus Jimmy McGriff and Ray Bryant) puts Sue firmly on the map of collectible labels.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Also Hank Jacobs, who made a good organ album ("So far away"), the Soul Sisters, Joe Thomas & Bill Elliott, some decent Baby Washington, and a GREAT Ernestine Anderson album, which I just HAD to play twice on the trot when I first got it - something I never do.

Lots of Sue stuff was reissued on Collectables; some has come out on Ace.

I didn't know Sue was a Detroit label. Its addresses in the fifties were 125 St, NY and Riverside Drive, NY.

MG

[Christiern]

Sue was a NY label—I visited their office once.

[Michael Weiss]

Barry Harris just played me this record today. I am astonished at how good it is. His playing and arrangements are something else. It's hard to imagine how playing of this caliber and originality has remained so obscure.

[jazztrain]

Here's a picture of the cover:

[Katharsis]

The Vinyl section may not be the right place, but you can listen to snippets of the music on different online-music-platforms. Sounded interesting indeed.