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James Reese Europe
James Reese Europe
(22 February 1881 – 9 May 1919) was an American
ragtime
and early
jazz
bandleader
,
arranger
, and
composer
. He was the leading figure on the
African-American
music scene of New York City in the 1910s.
Eubie Blake
called him the "
Martin Luther King
of music".
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