Robert Deane Kincaide (March 18, 1911[1] – August 14, 1992)[2] was an American jazz reedman.
Kincaide was born in Houston, Texas, United States,[1] but raised in Decatur, Illinois, and began playing professionally and working as an arranger in the early 1930s.[1] He worked with Wingy Manone in 1932, then took a job with Ben Pollack from 1933 to 1935,[1] also arranging for Benny Goodman on the side. He joined Bob Crosby's group in 1935, and worked with Woody Herman and Manone again; at the end of the decade he worked briefly with Tommy Dorsey.[1] In the first half of the 1940s he worked with Joe Marsala, Glenn Miller,[1] Ray Noble, and Muggsy Spanier. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, playing in a ship's band on the USS Franklin (CV-13). He joined Ray McKinley's band in 1946, working with him until 1950. From the 1950s until the early 1980s, Kincaide worked primarily as an arranger for television.[1]
He died, aged 81, in St. Cloud, Florida.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Colin Larkin, ed (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1367. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Deane Kincaide, 81; Big Band Arranger, Performer". 28 August 1992. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-28-mn-5861-story.html.
Other sources[]
- "Deane Kincaide". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Second edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
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