Datri Bean

I am not much into Myspace- I sign on once a month or so. So, if you want to get a message to me, please email me through my website. I try to keep the calendar here correct, but, again, my website is really the place to be. http://datribean.com



Bean was raised in a rodeo family on the plains of Wyoming. Listening to her mother's scratchy Scott Joplin records, at the age of five, she began to study piano. She kicked around here and there, eventually landing in a big house in Austin, full of jazz musicians, hooligans, exchange students and bike mechanics, from whom she learned to play jazz, fix bicycles, speak Russian and drink hooch- all at the same time.



"Southern-fried vintage jazz," .with its languid melodies and sultry vocal lines, it does sound as if it could have floated off a Georgia porch and landed by accident in rainy, cold Seattle. Bean's vocals recall Billie Holiday, only with sheer joy replacing all that pain." The Seattle P.I.



"(Bean has a) seemingly innate ability to charm a packed house into quietude with infectious tunes about sweet tea and tamales." -About.com