{{short description|1960 album by Ray Bryant}} {{distinguish|text=the track "Little Susie" on the Michael Jackson album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Little Susie | type = Album | artist = Ray Bryant Trio | cover = Little Susie.jpg | alt = | released = October 1960 | recorded = December 10, 1959 and January 19, 1960 | venue = | studio = Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Columbia <br /><small>CL-1449/CS-8244</small> | producer = | chronology = Ray Bryant | prev_title = Ray Bryant Plays | prev_year = 1959 | next_title = Madison Time | next_year = 1960 }} '''''Little Susie''''' is an album by pianist Ray Bryant released on Columbia Records in 1960.<ref>Watts, R., Callahan, M., Edwards, D. and Eyries, P. [https://www.bsnpubs.com/columbia/columbia12/columbia1400.html Columbia Main Series, Part 10: CL 1400-1499/CS 8196-8290 (1959-1961)], accessed April 25, 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.jazzdisco.org/ray-bryant/catalog/#columbia-cl-1449 Ray Bryant catalog], accessed April 25, 2017</ref><ref>[https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/ray-bryant-discography/ Enciclopedia del Jazz Ray Bryant discography], accessed April 26, 2017</ref>
== Reception == {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic" /> | rev2 = ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> }} The AllMusic review stated "Pianist Ray Bryant's debut for Columbia was named after 'Little Susie,' a hit single he had a short time earlier recorded for Signature. The trio LP with bassist Tommy Bryant and either Gus Johnson or Eddie Locke on drums has a remake of 'Little Susie,' a few other originals that did not catch on as hits".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id= mw0000596837 |title=''Little Susie'' – Review |accessdate=April 25, 2017}}</ref>
== Track listing == All compositions by Ray Bryant except where noted # "Little Susie"{{snd}}4:40 # "By Myself" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz){{snd}}3:20 # "Blues For Norine"{{snd}}4:35 # "Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed" (Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes){{snd}}3:27 # "Big Buddy"{{snd}}5:37 # "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell){{snd}}5:12 # "Greensleeves" (Traditional){{snd}}2:26 # "So In Love" (Cole Porter){{snd}}5:41 # "If I Can Just Make It" (Traditional){{snd}}2:12 # "Misty" (Erroll Garner){{snd}}4:04 *Recorded at Columbia Records, 30th Street Studio, NYC., on December 10, 1959 (tracks 1–3 & 10) and January 19, 1960 (tracks 4–9)
== Personnel == *Ray Bryant – piano *Tommy Bryant – bass *Oliver Jackson (tracks 1–3 & 10), Eddie Locke (tracks 4–9) – drums
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Category:1960 albums Category:Ray Bryant albums Category:Columbia Records albums