Originally posted in 2009. (Today is the birthday of Noble Sissle). Apparently composing ragtime causes you to live to be a hundred. Like Irving Berlin, Eubie Blake also managed to hit the century mark, lucid until the end " which was merciful, for his last decade saw a great groundswell of interest in his long-neglected work. […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:40AM on July 10, 2013