"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.

Steeped in hot muggy weather, love, God and corn whiskey, songwriter Datri Bean's music blends 1930s jazz with folksy Americana, for a lazy afternoon on the porch feeling.

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 seriously. She studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music, but found it a bit stuffy, so she quickly high-tailed it for Austin, Texas. She kicked around here and there, eventually landing in a big house 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.

Shortly after the release of her debut album, Slow Down Summertime, About.com named her one of the "best folk artists you've never heard of ." She has been touring the Northwest and Southeastern United States, and sharing the stage with notables such as the Leon Redbone, the Ditty Bops and the Weepies. She was recently honored by the Kerrville New Folk, Telluride, and Rocky Mountain folk festivals for her songwriting. Slow Down Summertime was released in Japan on Americana label Buffalo Records (North Mississippi Allstars, Asylum Street Spankers) shortly after its U.S. release.

"Datri Bean creates a sound that makes me imagine a sunny, country afternoon sipping mint juleps on an old screened porch, the air moving ever so slightly under the ceiling fan. It's a nice place to be." - Vigilance Magazine