Track Listing

1. Charleston Rag
2. Chevy Chase - Eubie Blake,
3. Mirandy
4. Fizz Water - Gertrude Baum, Eubie Blake
5. Crazy Blues
6. Memphis Blues
7. Dangerous Blues
8. Arkansas Blues
9. Down Home Blues
10. Good Fellow Blues
11. Don't Tell Your Monkey Man
12. Boll Weevil Blues
13. If You Don't Want Me Blues
14. I'm Just Wild About Harry
15. Memories of You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47824 in Music
• Released on: 2003-05-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Ragtime Recordings...
This is one of the best recordings of straight-ahead ragtime around. Eubie Blake rivals Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joe Lamb as one of the original American ragtimers. The recording is fine: original piano roll techne realized on a 1910 Steinway player piano, and recorded with DDD. The tracks are classic rags.

A little confusion on Amazon's listing, however: the label is not Sony, but Biograph--which also issued great piano roll tracks by James Scott, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, and James Johnson. All highly recommended.

Eubie Piano Rolls and Two Late Recordings
Eubie Blake recorded most of these piano rolls right before jazz emerged and ragtime fell back out of fashion. The sound is clangy and not very attractive, but gives some approximation of his style. For more sophisticated sound of recording pianos I suggest you consider the Pierian CDs. Both the Granados and the Debussy are superior reproduction to most of these things.
Eubie Blake lived a long full life, and made many regular recordings, so listeners are not limited to just the ersatz sound of piano rolls. While the selection of titles on this CD is first rate, the sound of the piano roll reproduction is too limiting to award it a top rating.