Calloway, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Fats Waller, and Chick Webb. Members of Marable's bands were expected to be able to play a wide variety of music, from hot numbers to light classics, playing by memory or ear, and from sheet music. Above all they were expected to keep the dancers happy. Marable was a strict bandleader, demanding musical proficiency and rigid discipline from all his bandmembers, yet allowing them to develop their individual strong points. For instance, Louis Armstrong's gift for improvisation was recognised as such by Marable, and he allowed him to improvise his breaks rather than play them note for note. Marable's band served as an early musical education for many other players who would later become prominent in jazz, including Red Allen, Baby Dodds, Johnny Dodds, Pops Foster, Errol Garner, Narvin Kimball, Al Morgan, Jimmy Blanton, Elbert Pee Wee Claybrook, , and Zutty Singleton. In 1916, Marable published the only original composition of his career, Barrell House Rag, co-written with Clarence Williams. A young George Russell, later the deviser of the Lydian Concept, grew up listening to Marable's music. Death Fate Marable died of pneumonia in St. Louis, Missouri. He was 56 years old. He is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Paducah, Kentucky. Notes External links Fate Marable - Pittsburgh Music History 1890 births 1947 deaths African-American pianists American jazz pianists American male pianists American jazz organists American male organists American jazz bandleaders Musicians from Paducah, Kentucky 20th-century American conductors (music) Jazz musicians from Kentucky 20th-century American pianists 20th-century organists 20th-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians 20th-century African-American musicians