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Cyril Blake's Calypso Band

Cyril "Midnight" Blake (22 October 1900 – 3 December 1951) was a Trinidadian jazz and calypso trumpeter.

Blake moved to England about 1918, where he played in a British group called the Southern Syncopated Orchestra. He worked in Paris and London as a musician throughout the 1920s, and in the 1930s played in the bands of Leon Abbey, Happy Blake, Rudolph Dunbar, Leslie Thompson, Joe Appleton, and Lauderic Caton. In 1938 he formed his own band, which was centred on Jig's Club in London; he recorded several times with this ensemble Cyril Blake And His Jig's Club Band. In the 1940s Blake led his band…

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