Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, circa 1930

Item Overview

Title

Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, circa 1930

Alternative title

Vaudeville Performers, Variety Entertainment, and Theatrical Actors

Date Created

[circa 1930]

Date

1930

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Eubie Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, he and his long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans
Noble Lee Sissle was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical "Shuffle Along" (1921), and its hit song I'm Just Wild About Harry.
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake seated at a piano in a publicity still for an early Vitaphone movie short.

Caption

Typescript on back of photo: Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake as they appeared in an early vitaphone movie short about 1930. From the H.T. Sampson Collection.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

photographs

Names

Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975
Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American composers
African American musicians
African American singers