MARABLE, FATE

MARABLE, FATE. Jazz bandleader (2 December 1890 in Paducah, Kentucky; 16 January 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri). He came from a family that produced several professional musicians. He studied piano as a child with his mother. When he was seventeen he began playing piano on riverboats, working first with violinist Emil Flindt on a ship that sailed from Little Rock, Arkansas. During the 1920s-1930s he led bands on steamers sailing on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, primarily for the Streckfus...