Title: Eubie Blake | The Eighty-Six Years Of Eubie Blake

Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1969, Jazz, Ragtime, Baltimore

Matrix #: C2S 847

Condition: EX, sounds great, looks great (CC)

Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle Blake lived through segregation, the collapse of early Black theater circuits, and decades of being treated as a historical survivor rather than a still-vital artist.
2. Media Narrative This album arrived as Blake was being rediscovered late in life, with the culture suddenly celebrating a man it had largely sidelined for years.
3. Studio Lore The record helped frame him not as a relic but as a living link to ragtime, vaudeville, and the earliest era of Black American popular music.

4/18/2026 CC