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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"

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later reissued by Shout! as

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

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

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-"Tricky Fingers" on Quicksilver:

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And what more is on CD?

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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?

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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.

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