Fate played piano and was renowned for his steam calliope playing on the river boats. The keys of the steam calliope were so hot that the musician had to wear gloves to play the instrument. Marable led bands on the boats up until the 1940s. In the mid-1940s he played in clubs in St. Louis.
Also See: Fate Marable, Louis Armstrong, and the Big River
| Fate Marable’s Society Syncopators |
| Jazz On The River, by William Howland Kenney, University Of Chicago Press, 2005 |
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