Editing Eubie Blake (section)

==Death==
Blake continued to play and record until his death, on February 12, 1983, in [[Brooklyn]], five days after events celebrating his purported 100th birthday<ref>{{cite news|title=Eubie Blake, Ragtime Composer, Dies 5 Days After 100th Birthday|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/13/obituaries/eubie-blake-ragtime-composer-dies-5-days-after-100th-birthday.html|quote=Mr. Blake's lawyer, Elliot Hoffman, said the composer died shortly after noon. Mr. Blake, who had suffered a bout of pneumonia, was too ill to attend Monday's birthday celebrations but he heard a concert in his honor at the Shubert Theater by way of a special telephone hookup.|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 13, 1983 |access-date=December 5, 2014|last1=Wilson |first1=John S. }}</ref> (which was actually his 96th birthday).

He was interred in [[Cypress Hills Cemetery]] in [[Queens, New York]]. His headstone, engraved with the musical notation of "I'm Just Wild About Harry", was commissioned by the African Atlantic Genealogical Society.

Blake was reported to have said, on his birthday in 1979, "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself",<ref>{{cite news|author1=Haberman, Clyde|author2=Krebs, Albin|date=February 5, 1979|title=Notes on People: Eubie Blake Is Almost Not at the Show on Time|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|page=C12|id={{ProQuest|120969930}}}}</ref> but this has been attributed to others and has appeared in print at least as early as 1966.<ref>{{cite news|author=Gold, Bill |date=November 24, 1966|title=The District Line......|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|page=G20|id={{ProQuest|142887941}}}}</ref>