Cyril "Midnight" Blake (22 October 1900 – 3 December 1951) was a Trinidadian jazz trumpeter.
Born in Trinidad, Blake first showed interest in music by taking up the banjo and guitar while visiting relatives in New York.
From 1921 he played guitar in a British group called the Southern Syncopated Orchestra.
Blake also played in bands led by Leon Abbey, the clarinetist Rudolph Dunbar, Leslie Thompson, Joe Appleton, and Lauderic Caton.
[3] In 1938 he formed his own band, which was centred on Jig's Club in London's Soho, where live performances were recorded several times, showing a growing involvement in African-Caribbean music.