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Marable, Fate, 1890-1947

LC control no.n 87131592
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Personal name headingMarable, Fate, 1890-1947
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date18901202
Death date19470116
Place of birthPaducah (Ky.)
Place of deathSaint Louis (Mo.)
AffiliationFate Marable's Society Syncopators Streckfus Steamers, Inc.
Kentucky Jazz Band (Musical group) Fate Marable and His Jazz Maniacs (Musical group)
Profession or occupationPianists Jazz musicians Boaters (Persons)
Found inJazz from St. Louis [SR] p1982: container (Fate Marable, piano and leader)
Chilton, J. WW jazz (Marable, Fate; piano/calliope/leader; b. Paducah, Ky., 2 Dec. 1890; d. St. Louis, Mo., 16 Jan. 1947)
African American National Biography, accessed February 25, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Marable, Fate; pianist, bandleader, jazz musician; born 02 December 1890 in Paducah, Kentucky, United States; received strict training in music from his mother; played piano in a duo with the violinist Emil Flindt; the only African American in the bands of the Streckfus line; formed the Kentucky Jazz Band (1917); formed His Jazz Syncopators, soon to be called Fate Marable and His Jazz Maniacs; worked on several boats in the Streckfus line for another two decades; died 16 January 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States)