Eubie Blake

piano, composition · 1887–1983 · Baltimore

Pianist born in Baltimore, Eubie Blake played rags and popular tunes from 1902 before writing, with Noble Sissle, the music for Shuffle Along (1921), the first all-Black Broadway show. Rediscovered in the 1970s, he is celebrated as the last living link to the ragtime era.

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Styles

• Ragtime
• Stride (Harlem piano)

Landmark tracks

• Charleston Rag (1969)

Sources

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