BLAKE, JAMES HUBERT (EUBIE
). Ragtime/Musical comedy composer ( in Baltimore, Maryland). He first played on a house pump-organ, then began piano study when he was six years old with local teacher Margaret Marshall. Later he studied with
Llewellyn Wilson
(1907-14) and at New York University in the Schillinger System of Composition (1949) with
Rudolph Schramm
. He also studied informally with
Will Marion Cook
(1920s). He began his career as a ragtime pianist...