Keeper1st | Last of the Ragtime Pioneers, played by Monty Suffern @Keeper1st | Uploaded April 2018 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
This piece was written by our friend Galen Wilkes in 1983/84 following the death of ragtime legend Eubie Blake at the age of 96 (it was believed to have been the age of 100 at the time; only in recent years has Blake's true age been discovered).
Monty plays it here at the 2017 Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival.
suttercreekragtime.com
Sheet music is available in Galen's "Authentic Ragtime" folio: galenwilkes.com/store.html
See also this early film of Eubie Blake playing piano with his long-time singing partner Noble Sissle, in an experimental early sound film technique made in 1923. youtube.com/watch?v=YZtzr7LSL1s
...and a film of him performing and talking about his life at age 92 (though of course the years were fibbed, we now know): youtube.com/watch?v=q2zIDCFjIGU
This piece was written by our friend Galen Wilkes in 1983/84 following the death of ragtime legend Eubie Blake at the age of 96 (it was believed to have been the age of 100 at the time; only in recent years has Blake's true age been discovered).
Monty plays it here at the 2017 Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival.
suttercreekragtime.com
Sheet music is available in Galen's "Authentic Ragtime" folio: galenwilkes.com/store.html
See also this early film of Eubie Blake playing piano with his long-time singing partner Noble Sissle, in an experimental early sound film technique made in 1923. youtube.com/watch?v=YZtzr7LSL1s
...and a film of him performing and talking about his life at age 92 (though of course the years were fibbed, we now know): youtube.com/watch?v=q2zIDCFjIGU
