Eubie Blake at The Molde Jazz Festival ,1973

Obtained through Sergey Ivzhenko and posted with permission.
Eubie Blake performs at The Molde Jazz Festival in Norway.
00:23 Classical Rag
06:10 Troublesome Ivories (Black Keys On Parade)
09:55 Merry Widow Waltz (In Ragtime)
17:30 I'm Just Wild About Harry
20:45 Love Will Find A Way
25:25 Charleston Rag
29:13 Memories Of You
34:12 Rhapsody In Ragtime
39:37 The Stars and Stripes Forever
I love this man.

[@YamajstiStl]

thanks sugar bear,for posting this! and thankyou gary brisky for telling us that story eubie blake was a craze since he came out of hiding,in68 or 69,a+ newport jazz festival.i tend to think he was helpless from grief,when noble sissle died,in46,and he compleley gave up whenhe hit that magical number of100,since his wife died

[@Mitchyboi]

This is a fucking rarity of awesomeness. Long live Eubie Blake!

[@SugarBearMosher]

Hopefully as the video processes more, the Quality increases to 720 P and the brightness restores. For some reason, this and another video I uploaded tonite have pretty cruddy visual quality compared to the raw file.

[@garybrisky9116]

Eubie was why I play the piano. I saw him on the television when I was 15 years old (1973ish) and said to my Dad that that is what I want to do. He told me to study and get a job. I was probably one of the few 25 year old who cried big tears when he died. Then I met his protege' (Eubie wrote the forward to his book, This is Ragtime) at a music workshop. There was a book of Blake's work transcribed. At breakfast with Terry Waldo the transcriber and teacher, little did I know who transcribed the works. Terry and I have been long friends ever since. The book? I have been working from it for 10 years. The wing span of Blake makes me wonder if I should go old fashioned and have my fingers broken to make the reach. uh...no. But what I have learned working from this book gives me all sorts of fills and textures in my playing I would have never ever had. Available on Hal Leonard "Sincerely Eubie" at the time of publication was the only transpositions of his work. You can catch Terry Waldo on youtube as well. Happy playing!!

[@Dave_Hepler]

Wonderful playing and fun!!

[@michaelreilly7635]

Such joy! Eubie is so funny, totally cracks me up, thank you for sharing

[@FrancodellaVittoria3567]

Che bella tecnica pianistica che aveva. Dita piatte e corpo inclinato in avanti di circa 45 gradi. Grazie a Sugar Bear Mosher che ha postato questo video che resterà come documento storico prezioso.

[@StrideLatinProgRick]

Great music and a great historic document. Many thanks Sugar Bear for posting this!

[@jakemcaleer1752]

Excellent

[@TheLemon333]

This makes me so happy. Thanks for the post.

[@SugarBearMosher]

I am waiting for the video to hopefully improve in quality...I may possible have to reupload this, just an FYI. I want to make sure that the film quality is as top notch as it can be. I am glad that even this makes people happy, though!

[@barrygordon5323]

Eubie Blake was a real legit pianist,look at his arpeggios how crisp they are as a old man ,he was also quite a composer and musician. . I remember talking to him and it took me 50 years to understand what he said,he said that fats waller played like a white man. I couldn't get that because to me fats had the best rhythm of all stride pianists,but eubie ment something different,he ment that fats used less rhythmic figures in the right hand ,and more melody.then lest say j p Johnson or the beetle Henderson..and still fats had the best rhythm,I asked eubie who he thought the best pianist was,I was just a kid at the time,,he said one leg Willie Joseph,I said better then morton...he said,better then Tatum . I t was a honor to have met him ...

[@SugarBearMosher]

I envy your experiences. I recently listened to a interview of Peter Ballance who recently passed apparently Donald Lambert did not like Fats because of his playing in F often? And Lambert also claimed elsewhere that Fats stole his melody and turned it into "Clothesline Ballet"

[@davidcurran-z8g]

He was somewhere between 85 and 90 in 1973

[@SugarBearMosher]

86

[@davidcurran-z8g]

Thanks. He always claimed he was born in 1883 but most historians say it was 1887. Either way, he was amazing for his age!

[@YamajstiStl]

in1982.in 1915 he was teaching music school,edward james ellington showed up to study with him ,and he asked eubie..."is there any difference between an Fa flat and an e sharp ?"and eubie said yes there is ! and the duke says,"like ,omigod!are you kidding?and he goes... i'm outta here! the duke took off to LA...i guess he hitch Hiked with the first horse and buggie.the duke knows all of his scales but he refuses to use formal sheet music.he used the three line musical staff,the "folk method" ,fer jotting down ideas