Eubie Blake

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Eubie Blake

Born 1887-02-07 Baltimore, Maryland, USA 8 films

Eubie Blake was born James Hubert Blake in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 7. He died later on February 12, 1983, having become one of the most important figures in early 20th-century African American music and a major contributor to ragtime and early jazz music and culture. Blake began his musical journey at age four playing a pump organ. At fifteen, he became a professional musician playing ragtime songs in a brothel. In 1905, he moved to New York Ci…

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Filmography

8 films
Music Inn poster

During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experim…

Music Inn

★ 10.0 2007

Vaudeville poster

Vaudeville is a 1997 PBS documentary under its American Masters program. Using film clips and photo…

Vaudeville

★ 8.0 1997

Scott Joplin poster

The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

Scott Joplin

★ 6.6 1977