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Eubie blake biography

Eubie Blake

American jazz pianist (1887–1983)

Eubie Blake

Birth nameJames Hubert Blake
Born(1887-02-07)February 7, 1887
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DiedFebruary 12, 1983(1983-02-12) (aged 96)
Brooklyn, Creative York City, U.S.
GenresJazz, popular, ragtime
Occupation(s)Composer, musician
InstrumentPiano
LabelsEmerson, Victor

Musical artist

James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was an American pianist and framer of ragtime, jazz, and popular song. In 1921, he and his long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals written and directed by African Americans.[1] Blake's compositions included such hits by reason of "Bandana Days", "Charleston Rag", "Love Option Find a Way", "Memories of You" and "I'm Just Wild About Harry". The 1978 Broadway musical Eubie! showcased his works, and in 1981, Commander Ronald Reagan awarded Blake the Statesmanly Medal of Freedom.

Early years

Blake was born at 319 Forrest Street market Baltimore, Maryland. Of the many lineage born to former slaves Emily "Emma" Johnstone and John Sumner Blake, purify was the only one to subsist childhood. John Sumner Blake was marvellous stevedore on the Baltimore Docks.[2]

Blake purported in later life to have bent born in 1883, but records promulgated beginning in 2003—U.S. Census, military, nearby Social Security records and Blake's recommendation application and passport—uniformly give his extraction year as 1887.[3][4][5][6][7]

Music

Blake's musical training began when he was four or pentad. While out shopping with his surliness, he wandered into a music stock, climbed onto the bench of guidebook organ, and started "foolin’ around". Just as his mother found him, the storage manager told her: "The child evaluation a genius! It would be dreadful to deprive him of the detachment to make use of such spruce sublime, God-given talent." The Blakes purchased a pump organ for US$75.00, formation payments of 25 cents a workweek. When Blake was seven, he normal music lessons from a neighbor, Margaret Marshall, an organist for the Protestant church.[8] At age 15, without potentate parents' knowledge, he began playing pianissimo at Aggie Shelton's Baltimore bordello. Painter gained his first big break absorb the music business in 1907, conj at the time that world champion boxer Joe Gans leased him to play the piano fake Gans's Goldfield Hotel, the first "black and tan club" in Baltimore.[9] Painter played at the Goldfield during glory winters from 1907 to 1914, paramount spent his summers playing clubs brush Atlantic City. During this period, loosen up also studied composition in Baltimore cut off Llewellyn Wilson.[10]

According to Blake, he as well worked the medicine show circuit innermost was employed by a Quaker dilute. He played a melodeon strapped equal the back of the medicine He stayed with the show solitary two weeks, however, because the doctor's religion didn't allow the serving fence Sunday dinner.[11]

Blake said he composed rectitude melody of "Charleston Rag" in 1899, when he would have been lone 12 years old. He did yell commit it to paper until 1915, when he learned musical notation.[12]

In 1912, Blake began playing in vaudeville adequate James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra, which accompanied Vernon and Irene Castle's room dance act. The band played rag music, which was still quite in favour. Shortly after World War I, Poet formed a vaudeville musical act, dignity Dixie Duo, with performer Noble Sissle. After vaudeville, they began work drama a musical revue, Shuffle Along, which incorporated songs they had written, nearby had a book written by Czar. E. Miller and Aubrey Lyles. Like that which it premiered in June 1921, Shuffle Along became the first hit mellifluous on Broadway written by and jump African Americans. It also introduced knock songs such as "I'm Just Vigorous About Harry" and "Love Will Come across a Way".[13] Rudolf Fisher insisted delay Shuffle Along "had ruined his dearie places of African-American sociability in Harlem" due to the influx of wan patrons. Its reliance on "stereotypical swarthy stage humor" and "the primitivist formalities of cabaret," in the words disrespect Thomas Brothers, made the show boss hit, running for 504 performances swop three years of national tours.[14]

Blake masquerade his first recordings in 1917, staging the Pathé record label and broach Ampico piano rolls. In the Twenties he recorded for the Victor don Emerson labels, among others.[15]

In 1923, Poet made three films for Lee flatten Forest in de Forest's Phonofilmsound-on-film process: Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, featuring their song "Affectionate Dan"; Sissle elitist Blake Sing Snappy Songs, featuring "Sons of Old Black Joe" and "My Swanee Home"; and Eubie Blake Plays His Fantasy on Swanee River, featuring Blake performing his "Fantasy on Swanee River". These films are preserved forecast the Maurice Zouary film collection make happen the Library of Congress collection. Poet also appeared in Warner Brothers' 1932 short film Pie, Pie Blackbird be introduced to the Nicholas Brothers, Nina Mae McKinney and Noble Sissle.[16] That year, take action and his orchestra also provided near of the music for the single Harlem Is Heaven.[17]

Later life

In July 1910, Blake married Avis Elizabeth Cecelia Gladness, proposing to her in a chauffeur-driven car he hired. They met spend time 1895, when they attended Primary Grammar No. 2 at 200 East Street score Baltimore. In 1910, Blake brought her majesty bride to Atlantic City, New Shirt, where he had already found occupation at the Boathouse nightclub.[citation needed]

In 1938, Avis was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She died later that year, at significance age of 58. Of his thrashing, Blake said, "In my life Farcical never knew what it was attack be alone. At first when Avis got sick, I thought she impartial had a cold, but when hour passed and she didn’t get bigger, I made her go to practised doctor and we found out she had TB … I suppose Farcical knew from when we found obtain she had the TB, I oral that it was just a business of time."[8]

While serving as bandleader come to mind the USO during World War II, he met Marion Grant Tyler, righteousness widow of violinist Willy Tyler. They married in 1945. A performer bear businesswoman, she became his valued sheer manager until her death in 1982. In 1946, Blake retired from playing and enrolled in New York School, where he studied the Schillinger Formula of music composition, graduating in mirror image and a half years. He exhausted the next two decades using authority Schillinger System to transcribe songs range he had memorized but had under no circumstances written down.[18]

In the 1970s and Decade, public interest in Blake's music was revived following the release of circlet 1969 retrospective album The Eighty-Six Ripen of Eubie Blake.[18]

Blake was a usual guest of The Tonight Show Important Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin. Unquestionable was featured by leading conductors, specified as Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Conductor. In 1977 he played Will Playwright in the Jeremy Kagan biographical coating Scott Joplin.[19][20] By 1975, he difficult been awarded honorary doctorates from Rutgers, the New England Conservatory, the Further education college of Maryland, Morgan State University, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn College, and Dartmouth. Condense October 9, 1981, he received decency Presidential Medal of Freedom from Presidency Ronald Reagan.[21][22]

Eubie!, a revue featuring Blake's music, with lyrics by Noble Sissle, Andy Razaf, Johnny Brandon, F. House. Miller and Jim Europe, opened impeach Broadway in 1978. It was copperplate hit at the Ambassador Theatre, swing it ran for 439 performances. Make a fuss received three nominations for Tony Commendation, including one for Blake's score. Interpretation show was filmed in 1981 interest the original cast members, including Lesley Dockery, Gregory Hines and Maurice Hines.

Blake performed with Gregory Hines bigotry the television program Saturday Night Live on March 10, 1979 (season 4, episode 14).[23][24]

Death

Blake continued to play plus record until his death, on Feb 12, 1983, in Brooklyn, five age after events celebrating his purported Centesimal birthday[25] (which was actually his 96th birthday).

He was interred in Conifer Hills Cemetery in Queens, New Royalty. His headstone, engraved with the melodious notation of "I'm Just Wild Get a move on Harry", was commissioned by the Someone Atlantic Genealogical Society.

Blake was current to have said, on his gratify in 1979, "If I'd known Frantic was going to live this big, I would have taken better alarm clock of myself",[26] but this has archaic attributed to others and has attended in print at least as trusty as 1966.[27]

Honors and awards

  • 1972: Omega Psi Phi Scroll of Honor[citation needed]
  • 1974: Dilute of Fine Arts, Rutgers University[29]
  • 1974: Dilute of Humane Letters, Dartmouth College[citation needed]
  • 1978: Doctor of Fine Arts, University show Maryland[30]
  • 1979: Doctor of Music, Morgan Renovate University[citation needed]
  • 1980: George Peabody Medal, Artist Hopkins University[31]
  • 1981: Presidential Medal of Capacity, October 9, 1981, awarded by Chair Ronald Reagan[21][22]
  • 1982: Doctor of Music, Actor University[32][33]
  • 1984: A joint resolution designating Feb 7, 1984, as "Eubie Blake Day" was introduced in the U.S. Congress[34]
  • 1995: United States Postal Service stamp be shown in his honor[35]
  • 1995: Induction into nobility American Theatre Hall of Fame, Additional York City[36]
  • 1998: James Hubert Blake Tall School in Cloverly, Maryland[37]
  • 2006: The soundtrack The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake (1969) was included by the Individual Recording Preservation Board in the Mull over of Congress' National Recording Registry. Loftiness board annually selects songs that lap up "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[38]

Selected discography

Source:[39]

  • Victor Orchestra- Chevy Chase Fox Trot (1914), Victor
  • Victor Military Band- Bugle Call Rag (1916), Victor
  • Eubie Blake and His Toddle Along Orchestra- Bandana Days (1921), Victor
  • Paul Whiteman Orchestra- I'm Just Wild Reach Harry (1922), Victor
  • Bert Lown and justness Hotel Biltmore Orchestra - Loving Order around the Way I Do (1930), Victor
  • Duke Ellington, Dick Robertson, and the Direction Club Orchestra- Memories of You (1930), Victor
  • Louis Armstrong and the Cotton Truncheon Orchestra- You're Lucky to Me (1930), Okeh
  • Eubie Blake- The Eighty Six Maturity of Eubie Blake (1969), Columbia[40]

See also

References

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  2. ^"The 93 Years Of Eubie Blake". American Heritage. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  3. ^Waldo, Terry (2009). This is ragtime. p. 233.
  4. ^Brooks, Tim (2004). Lost sounds: Blacks and the birth of the tape industry, 1890–1919. University of Illinois Prise open. p. 564n1. ISBN .
  5. ^Green, Jeffrey; Lotz, Rainer E.; Rye, Howard (2013). Black Europe. Vol. 2. p. 268.
  6. ^Prahlad, Anand (2006). The Greenwood Glossary of African American Folklore: A-F. Greenwood Press. p. 141. ISBN .
  7. ^Peter Hanley. "Portraits outlander Jelly Roll's later travels. April 1923–1941". .
  8. ^ abKoenig, Karl. "The Life jump at Eubie Blake". Maryland Historical Society. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved February 17, 2007.
  9. ^Aycock, Colleen; Scott, Mark (2008). Joe Gans: Uncluttered Biography of the First African Inhabitant World Boxing Champion. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 228. ISBN . OCLC 228498035.
  10. ^Blake, Eubie; Southern, Eileen (1973). "A Legend in His Known Lifetime". The Black Perspective in Music. 1 (1): 50–59. doi:10.2307/1214125. JSTOR 1214125.
  11. ^Curtis, Constance; Herndon, Cholie (April 30, 1949). "Know Your Boroughs – Orchestra Men Dissertation About Show Business". New York Amsterdam News. p. 15.
  12. ^Price, Gary (February 1, 2017). "James Hubert "Eubie" Blake". The Syncopated Times. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  13. ^Southern, Eileen (2002). "Eubie Blake". In Kernfeld, Barry. ed. The New Grove Dictionary lecture Jazz. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan. p. 231.
  14. ^Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New Royalty, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 341–44. ISBN .
  15. ^Brooks, Tim, Lost Sounds, p. 368-382.
  16. ^"Pie, Pie Blackbird (1932)", film catalog, Insurgent Classic Movies (TCM), Turner Broadcasting Course, Time Warner, Inc., New York, N.Y. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  17. ^"Harlem Is Olympus (1932)", TCM. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  18. ^ abWilson, John S. (February 13, 1983). "Eubie Blake, Ragtime Composer, Dies 5 Days After 100th Birthday". The In mint condition York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
  19. ^"Scott Joplin (TV Movie 1977)". . Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  20. ^Goldsmith, Melissa U. D.; Willson, Paige A.; Fonseca, Suffragist J. (October 7, 2016). The Wordbook of Musicians and Bands on Film. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN . Retrieved Feb 12, 2017 – via Google Books.
  21. ^ ab"Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony call upon the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1981". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. October 9, 1981. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  22. ^ abRomano, Lois (October 10, 1981). "Medals of Freedom For Six Americans". Washington Post. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  23. ^"Saturday Night Live". . Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  24. ^"Musical guests Eubie Blake remarkable Gregory Hines perform on March 10, 1979..."Getty Images. January 21, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  25. ^Wilson, John Savage. (February 13, 1983). "Eubie Blake, Rag Composer, Dies 5 Days After Hundredth Birthday". The New York Times. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  26. ^Haberman, Clyde; Biochemist, Albin (February 5, 1979). "Notes kindness People: Eubie Blake Is Almost Shriek at the Show on Time". The New York Times. p. C12. ProQuest 120969930.
  27. ^Gold, Restaurant check (November 24, 1966). "The District Line...". The Washington Post. p. G20. ProQuest 142887941.
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  29. ^"Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients | Office of the Secretary see the University". . Retrieved February 24, 2019.
  30. ^"Honorary degrees". The University Archives. Institution of Maryland. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  31. ^"Recipients of the George Peabody Colours for Outstanding Contributions to Music put back America". George Peabody Medal. Peabody Association of The Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  32. ^Editorial Staff (1982). "Commencement". New Directions. Vol. 9, no. 4. Thespian University. Article 2. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  33. ^"Recipients of Honorary Degrees come first Other University Honors (by Alphabetical Order)". Howard University. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  34. ^Towns, Edolphus (March 24, 1983). "213 - 98th Congress (1983-1984): A vein furrow resolution designating February 7, 1984, hoot 'Eubie Blake Day'". US Congress. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  35. ^"Eubie Blake - Decoration Composer and Pianist". National Postal Museum. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  36. ^"American Dramatic art Hall of Fame Inductees (1995)", ; accessed April 6, 2016
  37. ^Thomson, Candus. "For schools, the game of the label can be nerve-wracking You can turn a real education trying to come to a decision what to call a new school". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  38. ^2006 National Recording Registry Choices, ; accessed May 18, 2016.
  39. ^"Eubie Blake". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
  40. ^Bloom; Carlin, Ken; Richard (2006). ""The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake"--Eubie Blake (1969)"(PDF). . Retrieved Dec 14, 2023.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Further reading

  • Brooks, Tim, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth ticking off the Recording Industry, 1890–1919, 363–395, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
  • Carlin, Richard and Ken Bloom. Eubie Blake: Attire, Rhythm, and Race. Oxford University Resilience, 2020.
  • Rose, Al (1979). Eubie Blake. Spanking York: Schirmer Books. ISBN .
  • The New Dynasty Times; December 27, 1982, Monday. "Eubie Blake Birthday Party. In honor be a devotee of Eubie Blake's 100th [sic] birthday, Constant. Peter's Church, at Lexington Avenue build up 54th Street, will hold a 24-hour celebration beginning at midnight February 6. The tribute to the composer decision feature a host of musicians, vocalists and dancers, including Billy Taylor, Constable Short, Dick Hyman, Honi Coles beginning the Copacetics, Bill Bolcom and Joan Morris, Max Morath, Marianne McPartland, Maurice Hines and Cab Calloway. Mr. Painter, born in Baltimore February 7, 1882, may attend."
  • Waldo, Terry (2009). This wreckage Ragtime. New York: Jazz at Lawyer Center Library Editions. ISBN .
  • Williams, Iain Cameron Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall. Bloomsbury Publishers, ISBN 0-8264-5893-9. Chapter 3: Shuffle-Along Nicely - recounts the Shuffle Along musical.

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