Eubie Blake

• Genre: Stride
• Hometown: New York

About

Eubie Blake's life could make a great miniseries. He wrote such standards as "Memories of You," played a mean ragtime piano and became the musical George Burns, filling concert halls around the world during his 80s and 90s. When he died at one hundred years old, he was widely considered a key figure in American popular music and a trailblazer for integrating the arts.

- Nick Dedina