Felix and All the Cats

BEAN, CLARENCE "TOOTSIE": Drums.

Tootsie Bean at Washington Square Festival 2000

Born in Bermuda, "Tootsie" has been in the music business for over 40 years, playing all over the United States and abroad to critical and popular acclaim. He has performed in the Bern Festival in Frankfurt, and in Japan, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, The Netherlands, France, England, Italy, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. In the U.S. he played the Telluride Film Festival, The Smithsonian, Wolf Trap, the Hollywood Bowl and the Washington Square Music Festival among others.
"Tootsie" has performed with such musicians as B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, George Coleman Clark Terry, Lionel Hampton, Bill Doggett, Clark Terry, and Al Grey, and dancers Honi Coles, Gregory Hines, Jimmy Slyde and the Copasetics.
He has recorded extensively with such artists as Earl Warren and the Countsmen, Ruth Brown, Ann Hamilton Calloway, Andy Farber and Felix Endico, and has been seen on the Johnny Carson and Good Morning America shows.
He is featured on soundtracks for "Bright Lights, Big City" and "That Rhythm, Those Blues."
"Tootsie" Bean has played The Village Gate, Blue Note, Fat Tuesdays, Eddie Condon's, Birdland, Baby grand, Apollo Theatre, West End Gate, the Waldorf Astoria and the Westbury Music Fair.