Watching Eubie Blake play piano on his 89th birthday

Description

Eubie Blake playing piano (facing the right) with Jo Jones, Tyree Glenn, Maxine Sullivan, Billy Taylor, and Bill Bolcom gathered around him watching while celebrating his 89th birthday at the Oversea Jazz Club; Joe Jones is holding a set of drumsticks and a banner with the name of the club can be partly seen behind the group and a clarinet is lying on the space above the piano's keyboard.
February 7, 1972
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.