It's a shame that there are only a few CDs currently available by the great pianist Eubie Blake. Blake, born in 1883, began playing ragtime when the music was born, and he continued to keep the art form alive until his passing just five days after his 100th birthday, with his prodigious skills at the keyboard undiminished. Along the way, he wrote such classic tunes as "Charleston Rag," "Memories of You" and "I'm Just Wild About Harry." Biograph's Memories of You, which features piano rolls cut early in Blake's career, is the best title available in a criminally neglected oeuvre. (Karl Pallmeyer)