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| | Fate Marable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | 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. |
 | | Noted musicians who spent time in Marable's bands included Red Allen, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, Johnny Dodds, Pops Foster, Al Morgan and Zutty Singleton, among others. |
 | | 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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