Charleston Rag

Eubie Blake · 1969 · piece notated as early as 1915

Context

Late recording of a piece that Blake said he wrote in 1899, notated in 1915 and cut on piano roll in 1917. It appears on The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake, recorded between December 1968 and March 1969 for Columbia and selected in 2006 for the National Recording Registry. Blake was presented there as the last living link to the ragtime era.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Ragtime. Among the origins and influences of Ragtime: Blues, spirituals, work songs.

Sources

• EN: The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake
• syncopatedtimes.com

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