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| Memories of You |
| Eubie Blake |
| első megjelenés éve: 2003 |
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| (2003)
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| 4.089 Ft
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| 1. | Charleston Rag
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| 2. | Chevy Chase
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| 3. | Mirandy
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| 4. | Fizz Water
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| 5. | Crazy Blues
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| 6. | Memphis Blues
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| 7. | Dangerous Blues
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| 8. | Arkansas Blues
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| 9. | The Down Home Blues
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| 10. | The Good Fellow Blues
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| 11. | Don't Tell Your Monkey Man
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| 12. | Boll Weevil Blues
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| 13. | If You Don't Want Me Blues
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| 14. | I'm Just Wild About Harry
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| 15. | Memories of You
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Jazz / Ragtime
Eubie Blake - Main Performer, Piano, Piano Rolls, Rolls
Gertrude Baum - Piano, Piano Rolls, Rolls
Noble Sissle - Vocals
Steve "Syco Steve" Williams - Piano
Steve Williams - , Piano Rolls, Rolls
* Alan Caplin - Art Direction
* Arnold S. Caplin - Producer
* Dr. Toby Mountain - Digital Engineer, Engineer
* Felix Klempka - Engineer
* Lawrence Boylan - Liner Notes
* Mike Montgomery - Liner Notes
Eubie Blake -- Memories of You features his first piano roll "Charleston" composed in 1899. This release also contains 9 of his best piano roll performances from 1917 to 1921 and two early rags "Fizz Water" and "The Chevy Chase". Rounding out this package are his last two music roll recordings "Memories of You" and "I'm Just Wild about Harry" performed in May of 1973 at the age of 90 years old.
A link to 19th-century ragtime who was still at the keys 75 years after the composition of his "Charleston Rag" (1899), Eubie Blake lived on yet longer thanks to his piano-roll recordings, including the 15 heard here. Most date from the 1910s -- though they've often been replayed for subsequently updated masterings -- and reflect one of the most buoyant piano styles of any in recorded jazz. Opening with "The Charleston Rag," Memories of You consists mostly of blues, though there's an ebullience and character in effect here that has little to do with the variety of blues heard during the late '20s, whether from acoustic Delta guitarists or Tin Pan Alley pianists. Blake's rendition of W.C. Handy's "The Memphis Blues" has a rollicking, syncopated charm, while "Boll Weevil Blues" is perhaps his best recording. One of the chestnuts, "I'm Just Wild About Harry," was actually recorded by Blake in 1973, more than 50 years after its first brush with popularity. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
Eubie Blake
Active Decades: '10s, '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s
Born: Feb 07, 1883 in Baltimore, MD
Died: Feb 12, 1983 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Ragtime, Show Tunes
Eubie Blake had a rather unique career. Although his main importance was as a songwriter for Broadway shows in the 1920s, late in life he became known as the last living link to ragtime. Blake always had a colorful life. He wrote his first rag, "The Charleston Rag," in 1899, spent years playing with medicine shows and in sporting houses, and by 1915 was teaming up with singer Noble Sissle in vaudeville. Sissle and Blake wrote for the 1921 hit show Shuffle Along (the first all-black musical) and it was followed by Revue Negre, Plantation Review, Rhapsody in Black, and Bamville Review. The team of Sissle and Blake, in addition to making recordings, were filmed for some early experimental sound shorts. Among Blake's hit songs of the 1920s were "I'm Just Crazy About Harry," "You're Lucky to Me," and "Memories of You."
Although he made some recordings in 1931, Eubie Blake generally had a lower profile for the next three decades. He worked with Sissle now and then and earned a degree from New York University, but was largely forgotten until 1969. That year he recorded a double LP for Columbia (The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake) that amazed listeners who had never heard of him. During his remaining 14 years, Eubie Blake was a very popular performer, playing and singing ragtime-era pieces, charming audiences, making new records, appearing on Broadway in the 1978 show Eubie (he was 95 at the time), and running his own label, Eubie Blake Music. He continued performing until he was 98, and Eubie Blake made it to his 100th birthday with five days to spare.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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