Floyd Bean
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Floyd Bean | |
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Born | August 30, 1904 Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. |
Died | 9 March 1971 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. | (aged 66)
Occupation | Jazz pianist |
Floyd R. Bean (August 30, 1904, Grinnell, Iowa – March 9, 1974, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) was an American jazz pianist.
Bean led his own band as a teenager and played at the Linwood Inn in
Georg Brunis in 1953 and worked with him through the end of the decade; other associations, in the 1950s and later, included Bob Scobey and Bill Reinhardt
.
References
- ^ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Floyd Bean Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
- Mike Hazeldine, "Floyd Bean". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.