Floyd R. Bean (August 30, 1904,

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– March 9, 1974,

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, Iowa) was an American

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pianist. Bean led his own band as a teenager and played at the Linwood Inn in

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. in the mid-1920s, where

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would occasionally sit in. He played with local Iowa bands and on the radio station WOC for several years thereafter. He relocated to

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in 1933, working with

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, then

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and

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. In 1940 he played with

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and then led a trio of his own. For most of 1943 he worked under

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, then put together another ensemble to play at the club Brass Rail; soon after this he played with Eddie Stone and

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, working as an arranger as well as a pianist. Late in the 1940s he played with

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and

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, and in the early 1950s with

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and

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. He joined 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

*Mike Hazeldine, "Floyd Bean". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

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