Deane Kincaide

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]