Eubie Blake

[EKE BBB]

Being such a giant, and with that amazingly long-lived career, the ammount of Eubie Blake´s music available on CD is embarrassingly scarce, IMHO.

-We have that Biography CD with piano rolls, "Memories of you"

later reissued by Shout! as

-And the AIE release "That´s ragtime!", taken from a Stereodditty LP plus a two LP set intended for broadcast and never issued commercially:

-And there´s some live Eubie Blake in this Chiaroscuro CD, "Jazz piano masters" (alongside Dill Jones, Teddy Wilson and Claude Hopkins):

-"Tricky Fingers" on Quicksilver:

And what more is on CD?

Edited October 18, 2005 by EKE BBB

[EKE BBB]

To my knowledge, "The eighty-six years of Eubie Blake" (Columbia C2S847/22223) recorded December 1968-March 1969 [Eubie Blake, Piano solo] hasn´t made it to CD.

Neither have made it any of the LPs he made for his own label, Eubie Blake Music:

-Eubie Blake, Vol. 1 Featuring Ivan Harold Browning

[Eubie Blake Music: EBM1], recorded 1971 by Eubie Blake and Ivan Harold Browning.

-Rags to Classics

[Eubie Blake Music: EBM2], recorded 1921 & 1971 by Eubie Blake.

-Eubie Blake and his Friends Edith Wilson and Ivan Harold Browning

[Eubie Blake Music: EBM 3] recorded 1971, performed by Eubie Blake, Edith Wilson and Ivan Harold Browning.

-Sissle and Blake: Early Rare Recordings, Vol. 1

[Eubie Blake Music: EBM 4], recorded 1921- 1927 by Sissle and Blake.

-Eubie Blake: Live Concert

[Eubie Blake Music: EBM 5], recorded May 22, 1973 by Eubie Blake.

-Eubie Blake Introducing Jim Hession

[Eubie Blake Music: EBM 6], recorded 1974 by Eubie Blake and Jim Hession.

-Sissle and Blake: Early Rare Recordings, Vol.. 2

[Eubie Blake Music: EBM 7], recorded 1919-1931 by Sissle and Blake.

-Eubie Blake and his Protégés

[Eubie Blake Music: EBM 8], recorded March 18, 1974, by Eubie Blake, Jim Hession, Mike Lipskin, and Terry Waldo

-Eubie Blake Song Hits

[Eubie Blake Music: EBM 9], recorded 1975 by Eubie and His Girls.

Right?

[Fer Urbina]

Hola

You may want to add this to your list

F

[EKE BBB]

Gracias, Fernando.

There are also three tracks by Eubie Blake and his orchestra on this Frog CD, "Thumpin´ and bumpin´" [DGF11]:

[EKE BBB]

There´s also Eubie Blake on CD, as an accompanist for Alberta Hunter:

[EKE BBB]

Eubie Blake is included, leading a trio on "Maple Leaf Rag" and "Maryland, My Maryland", in this Jazzology release, "Jammin´ at Rudi´s", recorded on 1951.

[EKE BBB]

Eubie Blake playing "Charleston Rag" to be found here (1979): "10th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival" (Flying Fish):

[EKE BBB]

Looks like the Golden Reunion in Ragtime LP [stereoddities: C1900] recorded on 1962 by Eubie Blake, Joe Jordan and Charlie Thompson has been reissued on CD by Hapi Skratch (???) :

Edited October 18, 2005 by EKE BBB

[AllenLowe]

the most important records are the early ones put out on Eubie's label, for ca. 1919-1921 - you get a real idea of what he sounded like - interesting for a number of reasons; from this we get a sense that early eastern ragtime was a little bit stiff, not quite as swinging as it would become post-Armstrong or after the influence of the early New Orleanians who came north. Even James P. changed a lot after 1923 or so. And it's also interesting to compare Blake's early recording with the 1921 solo recordings of Zez Confrey, who has been disparaged as a novelty composer/player; they sound amazingly alike.

[EKE BBB]

Thanks for your input, Allen. Let´s hope someday the Eubie Blake Music LPs will be reissued on CD.