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  Fate Marable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fate Marable (2 December, 1890 - 16 January, 1947) was a jazz pianist and bandleader.
Members of Marable's bands were expected to be able to play a wide variety of music, from hot numbers to light classics, both play by head and from sheet music, and above all keep the dancers happy.
In addition to piano and bandleading, Marable played the boats' steam calliope, a contraption that could be heard for miles up and down the river and poured down so much water from condencating steam that Marable performed wearing a raincoat and hood.
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 Fate Marable -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fate Marable (2 December, 1890 - 16 January, 1947) was a (A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles) jazz (A person who plays the piano) pianist and bandleader.
Marable was born in (additional info and facts about Paducah, Kentucky) Paducah, Kentucky and learned (A stringed instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds) piano from his mother.
Fate Marable died of (Respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants) pneumonia in (additional info and facts about Saint Louis, Missouri) Saint Louis, Missouri.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/fate_marable.htm   (301 words)

  
 Fate Marable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marable was born in Paducah, Kentucky and learned piano from his mother.
He soon became bandleader for boats on the Strekfus Line which ran several paddlewheelers which held dances and excursions along the river from New Orleans, Louisiana to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Marable appreciated the new "jazz" sound being played by the New Orleans musicians, and the bulk of his bandmembers were recruited from that city.
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 Read about Fate Marable at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Fate Marable and learn about Fate Marable here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fate Marable (2 December 1890 - 16 January 1947) was a
Marable was born in Paducah, Kentucky and learned
In addition to piano and bandleading, Marable played the boats' steam calliope, a contraption that could be heard for miles up and down the river and poured down so much water from condencating
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Fate_Marable   (211 words)

  
 Dawn Of Fate -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fate is located at 32°56'2" North, 96°23'4" West (32.933781, -96.384482).
Mercyful Fate is a Progressive/heavy metal group, and helped inspire fl metal (by playing a form of proto-fl metal) founded in Denmark in 1980.
Most people will probably have heard of them in the context of the commercially successful heavy metal band Metallica doing a medley of Mercyful Fate covers on the album Garage Inc. The band is infamous for their satanic stage shows, and their excessive use of corpse paint.
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 Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/"Jazz on the River" author William Kenney interview
Marable was not going to employ musicians who would drunkenly play their instruments in some bar at three o'clock in the morning.
Marable would have held up the highest ideals to them, and he then tended to be pretty difficult on them if they didn’t match those ideals.
Marable and the members in the band were dealing with the mass public, and because of the racial tension of the era, there was no telling what would happen at any given moment.
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 Fate Marable: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
In the 1930s, Marable sometimes co-led bands with Charlie Creath and, although based in St. Louis, he constantly recruited some of the best New Orleans jazzmen for his groups.
Marable was active again by the mid-'40s, playing piano in St. Louis-area clubs before dying from pneumonia.
Unfortunately, the only recordings of Marable's band, Frankie and Johnny and Pianoflage from 1924, are quite poor musically and technically, so the power and beauty of his bands are lost to history.
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 Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
Marable, who worked for the Streckfus Steamer Company, took a chance on Armstrong who at the time--it's said--couldn't read a note.
There is a--perhaps apocryphal--story that the young Bix Beiderbeck, then of Davenport Iowa, heard these showboats and Marable's Orchestra and the incredible tone of a then-unknown horn player who hit notes higher and cleaner than Bix had imagined possible.
As a calliope player, he is very knowledgeable about Fate Marable and I believe may have even worked with him.
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 A Life in tune: Collector goes on the record about his jazz-infused 90 years
Marable was a respected band leader whose group became known as the "floating conservatoire" because of the incredible talent he assembled, which included everyone from Louis Armstrong to Jimmy Blanton.
"Fate's music was a revelation for Bill," says his sister, Wilma Dougherty, a former general assignment reporter for Newsweek magazine, from her home in Florida.
Marable was so impressed with what he heard that he hired Armstrong on the spot.
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 National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
In 1918, Fate Marable, a bandleader for the Streckfus Steamboat Line, hired Armstrong.
Marable had a reputation of being a stern taskmaster, and took a challenge with the rough, untutored Armstrong.
Though he spent only five years on the boats, this was a pivotal period for Armstrong's musical development and accordingly, for all of jazz.
www.mississippirivermuseum.com /fame/armstrong.cfm   (253 words)

  
 Marable Family History Comments and Queries
Marable was a prominent resident of Bastrop for more than 40 years and a principal street near the center of town there bears the Marable name.
Marable and Martha Whetstone went west, and Gloria is descended from the younger, William Culbert Marable, who settled in the Pecos Valley of New Mexico and married into the pioneer Coe family and their legends of John Chisum and Billy the Kid.
CCM Marable is found in Lunenburg Co., VA in the 1820's, where he stood as surety on the marriage bonds of Ellison Clarke and Elizabeth Crymes (1823) and Henry Farmer and Martha Walton (1824).
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 Fate Marable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fate Marable is a very important figure in the early history of Jazz.
The bands he led on the Strekfus Mississippi river boat lines served as a training grounds for many of the great Jazz musicians of the 1920s including Louis Armstrong, Baby and Johnny Dodds, Zutty Singleton, King Oliver, Johnny St. Cyr, Tommy Ladnier, Red Allen and Pops Foster to name a few.
Fate played piano and was renowned for his steam calliope playing on the river boats.
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 Southern California Genealogical Society: Research Assistance and Resouces
In 1918 Peter helped Fate Marable (a renowned New Orleans musician) organize the first ten-piece orchestra of color to play on the ship.
He took Fate to the Co-operative Hall in New Orleans to meet the person he had chosen to take his place on the trip to St. Louis.
Fate Marable immediately liked and signed the up and coming Louis Armstrong.
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 The Bixography Discussion Group
As far as the second meeting is concerned, Louis was playing in the Fate Marable Orchestra for a second summer-season on the Mississippi in 1921.
Armstrong is never mentionned in Bix's letters at that time, and Bix obviously puts higher than the Fate Marable band some unknown musicians heard in Chicago in september 1921.
The reason for this is probably that the music played by the Fate Marable band on the riverboats was fully "directed" the Streckfus brothers.
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 Red Allen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At this time he also made recordings on the side in the band of Clarence Williams.
After returning briefly to New Orleans where he worked with the bands of Fate Marable and Fats Pichon, he was offered a recording contract with Victor Records and returned to New York, where he also joined the Luis Russell band, which was fronted by Louis Armstrong in the late 30's.
Red Allen's trumpet style has been said by some critics to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong and then go beyond Armstrong.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Allen   (441 words)

  
 Louis Armstrong and Riverboat Culture from Jazz on the River by William Howland Kenney
Black musicians were strictly segregated from the white passengers on the riverboats, as, later, from the patrons of the clubs and dance halls of the northern cities.
He liked and respected Fate Marable and made an on-going, two-and-one-half-year pass at learning to read his charts but stubbornly acted as if he knew that he would never live out his life and career as a section player.
Indeed, according to Marable, he was a "wild young man." Although such fl intellectuals as W. Du Bois and Alain Locke felt a strong attachment to the spirituals, or "sorrow songs," interpreting them as sacred expressions of a lost time of greater folk purity, Armstrong had grown up far from the halls of academe.
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 FATE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Search the FATE Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the FATE Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named FATE at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
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 DRAM - View Note for Narvin Kimball & Friends - Database of Recorded American Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Everything I learned from him he had written down in little study books." Ultimately, this disciplined and professional apprenticeship applied to local gigs led to the invitation to join Fate Marable on the steamers, a flattering indication in those days that you had "made it" as a musician.
This was the late '20s and early '30s and of course the beginning of hard times for everyone, but musicians already on a precarious financial ledge especially needed the bedrock of a steady income, so Kimball turned to the postal service.
Narvin Kimball did play jazz that week, proudly, with Fate Marable's prize graduate.
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 Dixieland Jazz Overview - Band Biographies Page - Page 1/4
From 1907 on, Fate worked continuously on the Mississippi Riverboats, and from 1917 on, formed his own band for these excursions (mainly aboard riverboats owned by the Strekfus Riverboat Lines).
One of his 1924 orchestras was billed as 'Fate Marable's Society Syncopators' and they only made one record.
Bostic, went on to have his own band, and Sedric is probably best recalled for his work with Fats Waller.
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 FYI - January 16, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fate Marable died in St. Louis, MO. at the age of 56.
He formed the Kentucky Jazz Band in 1917 and among his many sidemen during the next 20 years were Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, Pops Foster, Zutty Singleton, Henry "Red" Allen, Gene Sedric, Jimmy Blanton and Earl Bostic.
Ike Quebec died in New York City at the age of 44.
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 Paducah, Kentucky
During the American Civil War on September 6, 1861 forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly captured Paducah, which gave the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
Paducah was the birthplace of jazz pianist and bandleader Fate Marable, humorist Irvin S. Cobb, and contemporary Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman.
On December 1, 1997, a 14-year old boy named Michael Carneal carried five loaded guns to Heath High School in West Paducah, an unincorporated community about 10 miles from the city.
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 tabsmith
By the early 1930s he had decided on music as a profession and joined the Eddie Johnson Orchestra as a tenor sax player.Soon he switched to alto sax as his instrument of choice.
He made his way to St.Louis and played with Fate Marable and soon was a part of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band.
For a short time in the early forties he was in the Count Basie band and then went to the orchestra of Lucky Millinder.
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 Fate Marable/Tangley Air Calliope
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 The All Birthdays Jazz Thread - Page 179 - Jazz Bulletin Board
Fate Marable seems to have an interesting (indirect?) ancestry.
Sidewheeler, in operation from at least 1918, by which time Fate was the bandleader.
Fate Marable led a group on the President at various times.
forums.allaboutjazz.com /showthread.php?t=1651&page=179&pp=15   (601 words)

  
 Second4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1919 he joined Fate Marable's band in St. Louis, and stayed with him until 1921.
Marable headed a band that worked on the Strekfus Mississippi River Boat Lines.
When Louis returned to New Orleans he played in Zutty Singleton's Trio, Papa Celestin's Tuxedo Orchestra, The Silver Leaf Band, and from time to time with Kid Ory's band, he also played in parades with the Allen Brass Band.
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 Fate Marable's Society Syncopators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Unfortunately, this was the only record that Fate Marable made, and our only opportunity to hear what this important band really sounded like.
Fate Marable conducted bands on the Strekfus river boat lines that featured many of the great Jazz musicians of the 1920s like Louis Armstrong, Baby and Johnny Dodds, Zutty Singleton, King Oliver, Johnny St. Cyr, Tommy Ladnier and Pops Foster to name a few.
This is the first record that Zutty Singleton ever appeared on.
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 Johnny St Cyr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Johnny St. Cyr played both banjo and guitar and is recognized as a true jazz pioneer.
He had his own bands in New Orleans in 1905, played with A.J. Piron, the Superior, Olympia and Tuxedo bands, played on the river boats with Fate Marable and went to Chicago with King Oliver in 1923.
He recorded with King Oliver and Jelly Roll Martin, but is most recognized as a key member of Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions.
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 Fates -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 WHMC-St. Louis, Oral History T-033 Interview with Druie Bess, Novermber 5, 1971
So many people have remarked who have played with Fate Marable or heard him, that he was such a good technical man.
Louie Armstrong, in his autobiography, gives Fate Marable credit that it was, because it was Fate insisting he learn how to read music before he'd hire him on the boat.
But Fate Marable insisted that he study music.
www.umsl.edu /~whmc/guides/t033.htm   (9336 words)

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