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	Eubie Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		James Hubert Blake was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 7, 1883.
		Eubie started taking Organ lessons at the age of six and by the time he was sixteen he was playing professionally in Baltimore saloons and bordellos.
		Eubie's popularity soared and he was much in demand at Jazz festivals and concerts.
	multirace.org /firstday/first5.htm (278 words)

	Jass.com: Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
		In 1905, Blake moved to New York City, where he decided to try to publish his first song, "Sounds of Africa." He asked the influential but fiery Will Marion Cook to accompany him to the publisher, and his song was accepted for $100.
		Blake went home to Baltimore where he played in local establishments, performing with and learning from such great African-American pianists as "Willie the Lion" Smith, C. Luckeyeth Roberts, and James P. Johnson.
		Blake lived on to be 100, playing piano and entertaining until the very end, which came on February 12, 1983.
	www.jass.com /sissle.html (1434 words)

	Author Biography: Music Theatre International - MTI - Musical Theatre Broadway Shows Available for Licensing
		Eubie Blake, christened James Hurbert Blake, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 7, 1883, the son of John Sumner Blake, a stevedore and laundress.
		But that was Eubie Blake, a gentle man of incredible abilities and talents whose career spanned the horse and buggy days to the space age.
		Eubie’s mother, a very religious woman, took great exception to the syncopation that he put into playing her church hymns.
	www.mtishows.com /bio.asp?bID=3284 (1557 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Eubie Blake \| PBS
		Blake early exhibited a natural aptitude for the keyboard.
		As a teenager, he played piano in cafés and brothels, and in 1899 he played his first rag, “Sounds of Africa,” published in 1919 as “Charleston Rag.” His meeting with the lyricist and vocalist Noble Sissle in 1915 resulted in a long association between the two entertainers.
		Blake continued his career as an entertainer, making both piano rolls and records and appearing in concerts.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/eubie_blake.html (262 words)

	James (Eubie) Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Eubie Blake was born in 1883 in Baltimore to former slaves, and the only child of 11 that would survive to adulthood.
		Blake was already an exceptional pianist by the early 1900's, and he had to simplify his music drastically to get it published.
		Eubie Blake was the last surviving ragtimer from the golden age of ragtime.
	www.amica.org /amica_Organization/amica-Hall-of-Fame_Members/Blake.htm (947 words)

	Eubie Blake - Music Downloads - Online
		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.
		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.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/300/004/34/30000434.html (266 words)

	Classic Jazz Excerpt on Eubie Blake
		Blake was born in 1883 in Baltimore, Maryland; his parents were both freed slaves.
		"Memories of You," Eubie Blake's most successful ballad, written in collaboration with lyricist Andy Razaf, was in the Broadway show "Lew Leslie's Black Birds of 1930." Eubie was always generous in his praise for the Casa Loma Orchestra's trumpet star, Sonny Dunham, who championed "Memories of You" as a jazz tune in the late '30s.
		Blake, stricken with pneumonia, was unable to attend the hundredth-birthday concert; he watched a special closed-circuit broadcast of the event.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8735/8735.excerpt.html (2333 words)

	Eubie Blake, Ragtime Musician, Marylander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Eubie Blake, ragtime composer and performer, was born on February 7,1883 in Baltimore, Md. At the age of four or five, Blake began playing his family's pump organ.
		In 1898, at the age of 15, Blake became interested in ragtime, to his mother's dismay.
		Blake's work led him to meet the major musicians of the time.
	library.advanced.org /10854/blake.html (319 words)

	Radio Projects: The American Popular Song Series: Eubie Blake Transcript
		Dick Hyman: Eubie Blake was born in Baltimore on February 7, 1883.
		Dick Hyman: Eubie felt that this was the way it should be, and he said it was very difficult for fl artists to write in styles that are associated with the white culture, the high culture.
		Eubie was a pianist and leader for some of the Europe bands that performed, and Sissle was a vocalist.
	www.neh.gov /projects/transcripts/eubieblaketranscript.html (2808 words)

	Eubie Blake and Ragtime
		Blake, a musician, composer, and performer born in Baltimore in 1883, published his first rags in 1914.
		Eubie Blake: So one day I was playing my mother'd gone out to work, see and what she was doing home that time in the morning, I don't know.
		Blake: No, not the music, because from whence it came.
	chnm.gmu.edu /courses/magic/saloon/blake.html (935 words)

	Selected Bibliography: Eubie Blake
		Blake, this is scheduled to go on.' 'No.' 'Why not?' 'Not without those officers sitting where they're supposed to sit.
		Eubie stood his ground, and the colonel had to go and see that the officers could return to their seats.
		Hal Leonard is the publisher of "Sincerely, Eubie Blake" a collection of 9 pieces by Eubie.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/cja/eubie.html (637 words)

	Eubie Blake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born as "James Hubert Blake" at 319 Forest Street in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 7, 1887, to Emma (1861-1927) and John Blake (1838-1917).
		Eubie said he first composed the melody to the "Charleston Rag" in 1899 (which would have made him 12 years old if he was born in 1887), but he did not commit it to paper until 1915, when he learned how to write musical notation.
		In 1910 Eubie brought Avis to Atlantic City, New Jersey, when he was working at the Boathouse nightclub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eubie_Blake (956 words)

	Drop Me Off in Harlem
		Composer and performer Eubie Blake had been playing piano in Baltimore bars and saloons when he began to experiment with ragtime, a jazz style featuring syncopated melodies.
		Blake met singer Noble Sissle in 1915, and the pair formed a vaudeville act called the Dixie Duo.
		Blake performed benefit concerts on behalf of the NAACP and the Urban League, as well as numerous fl youth groups and schools.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/harlem/faces/blake_text.html (440 words)

	Eubie Blake
		Eubie Blake was born in 1883 in Baltimore, Maryland; his parents were both freed slaves.
		Noble Sissle assumed leadership of the band for the remaining bookings, and he and Blake hit the vaudeville circuit when the tour ended.
		featured Blake's best remembered song, "I'm Just Wild About Harry," and introduced three entertainers whose later careers would be notable: Paul Robeson, Florence Mills, and Josephine Baker; show ran for 504 performances and spawned three "Shuffle Along" road companies, which broke color barriers in theaters all across the country.
	www.nathanielturner.com /eubieblake.htm (535 words)

	VH1.com : Eubie Blake : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		Sissle and Blake wrote for the 1921 hit show Shuffle Along (the first all-fl musical) and it was followed by Revue Negre, Plantation Review, Rhapsody in Black, and Bamville Review.
		Although he made some recordings in 1931, Eubie Blake generally had a lower profile for the next three decades.
		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.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/blake_eubie/bio.jhtml (315 words)

	African American Music Collection: the interviews
		This one is Eubie Blake alone playing piano alone.
		She came and told my mother, Sister Blake this boy is talented and he should learn how to read music.
		Blake together at home and ask you about some of these beautiful things that you have in your room.
	www.umich.edu /~afroammu/standifer/blake.html (4370 words)

	"It Was Considered Low Music": Pianist Eubie Blake on the Birth of Ragtime at the Turn of the Century
		Ragtime music, with its syncopated, polyrhythmic style, was born, according to cultural historian Robert Snyder, in the 1890s in the fl saloons and brothels of southern and Midwestern cities like Baltimore and St. Louis.
		Ragtime meant a tinkling piano and no one played the ragtime piano any better or longer than Eubie Blake, born in Baltimore in 1887.
		Blake: Now this is about, this is about couple of years, or years...
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/95 (969 words)

	AH HA! JAZZ: Eubie Blake
		Born in Baltimore,Maryland in 1883 James Hubert Blake is like no other in jazz history.
		In 1915 Eubie met lyricist Nobel Sissel and formed a songwritinng partnership.
		Eubie was the Peter Pan of the Overseas
	www.ahhajazz.com /eubieblake.html (215 words)

	Eubie Blake - Moviefone
		Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center
		Promotes the unique history and continuing legacy of African-American art and culture in the city of Baltimore through programming and educational...
		Eubie Blake - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Eubie Blake Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/eubie-blake/82054/main (123 words)

	Eubie Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Eubie Blake, ragtime composer,and performer, was born on February 7,1883 in Baltimore, Md. At the age of four, Blake began playing his family's pump organ.
		Then, as the popularity of ragtime faded,Eubie Blake took a twenty-three year break from show business.
		After performing most of life Eubie Blake Died on February 12, 1983, in Brooklyn, New York.
	iat.ubalt.edu /courses/old/pbds660_sp99/students/reckley/ex5/people/eubie_blake.htm (292 words)

	EUBIE BLAKE - PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED
		The Jazz pianist, dancer and composer was 96 when this photograph was taken by Tom Caravaglia in 1979.
		The son of slaves, Blake (1883-1993) met musician Noble Sissle in 1915.
		Performing at concerts until he was 99, Blake died five days after his 100th birthday.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/6_2001/music/EUBIE_BLAKE.htm (179 words)

	Item #1702090FK - Sincerely Eubie Blake - Piano (Piano Solo) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Sincerely Eubie Blake" is a collection of 9 original compositions for piano solo transcribed by Eubie Blake's protege Terry Waldo.
		This book includes a complete essay of Eubie's career through photos, stories and his music.
		Eubie Dubie - Performed by: Eubie Blake - Composed by: Guarnieri and Blake - ©1972
	www.superdupermusic.com /1702090.html (398 words)

	Eubie Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This tribute to Eubie Blake was painted in the studio from sketches that Delaney made during visits with the famous composer/pianist.
		Vignettes running along the left border and bottom half of the painting were taken from magazine illustrations that portrayed Blake's popularity with the public.
		Delaney elaborated on Blake's international fame by painting Eubie Blake's name in the sky, expressing Blake's larger-than-life image.
	sunsite.utk.edu /delaney/eubie.htm (101 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Eubie Blake National Museum and Cultural Center
		Welcome to the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center.
		While here we would really appreciate it if you would fill out a membership form to receive information by mail.
	www.eubieblake.org (218 words)

	Eubie Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Harlem Is Heaven (1932) (as Eubie Blake and His Orchestra)....
		Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs (1923)....
		Eubie Blake Plays His Fantasy on Swanee River (1923)....
	imdb.com /name/nm0086549 (633 words)

	Eubie Blake
		This is the table of contents for the interview of Eubie Blake.
		It is part of the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive which is located in
		E-mail comments and inquiries about the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive to Therese Dickman at tdickma@siue.edu or call 618-650-2695.
	www.siue.edu /~tdickma/EubieBlake.htm (146 words)

	Eubie Blake — FactMonster.com
		Blake, Eubie (James Hubert Blake), 1883–1983, African-American pianist and composer, b.
		With the songwriter Noble Sissle he produced early African-American Broadway musicals, e.g.,
		February 7 Birthdays: Frederick Douglass - February 7 birthdays: Frederick Douglass, An Wang, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Eubie Blake, Charles Dickens, Sir Thomas More, Sinclair Lewis, John Deere, Garth Brooks
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0907107.html (145 words)

	Eubie Blake Tabs: 2 Tabs Total @ 911Tabs - Tabs Search Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Eubie Blake Tabs: 2 Tabs Total @ 911Tabs - Tabs Search Engine
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	Hexapedia - Eubie Blake (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (February 7, 1883 or 1887 - February 12, 1983) was a composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music, as well as a lyricist.
		Blake's authorized biography, Eubie Blake, was written by Al Rose.
		The student newspaper named the Blake Beat is among the most distinguished and celebrated in Maryland.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Eubie_Blake (365 words)

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