Edward Inge

Edward Frederick Inge ( born May 7, 1906 in Kansas City, † October 8, 1988 ) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist ( alto, tenor ) and arranger of the Swing.

Inge learned from twelve years of clarinet and first worked in the orchestra of George Reynolds in Kansas City. In the 1920s he played with Dewey Jackson, Art Sims and his Creole Roof Orchestra and Oscar Young. 1929 to 1931 he was with McKinney 's Cotton Pickers and 1931-1939 in the band of Don Redman. 1940-1943, he was a successor of Don Byas to the band by Andy Kirk.

After that, he worked primarily as an arranger. His arrangements were used by Louis Armstrong, Don Redman, Jimmie Lunceford, and many others. Mid -1940s he had his own band in Cleveland and lived and worked from the 1950s in the Buffalo area (New York). He headed his own bands and played at Cecil Johnson in the 1960s and in the 1970s at CQ Price.

Inge took, among others, Redman, Sims, Red Allen, McKinney 's Cotton Pickers, Lunceford, Benny Morton, Coleman Hawkins, Mary Lou Williams, the Mills Brothers, Cab Calloway, and the Boswell Sisters on.