Otis Spann Is the Blues

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Performer: Otis Spann
Distributor: City Hall

Notes: Personnel includes: Otis Spann (vocals, piano); Robert Lockwood, Jr. (vocals, guitar). Recorded at Fine Studios, New York City on August 23, 1960. Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff. Otis Spann may not have been the blues, but he was sure close to being the blues pianist. Spann provided wonderful, imaginative, tasty piano solos and better-than-average vocals, and was arguably the best player whose style was more restrained than animated. Not that he couldn't rock the house, but Spann's forte was making you think as well as making you dance, and the tracks on Otis Spann Is the Blues will do both. ~ Ron Wynn

Rolling Stone (12/2/70, p.48) - "...his piano sings...his mastery of his instrument was so complete that he could effortlessly tailor his accompaniment to the mood he wanted...as fine an album as he ever recorded..."

Otis Spann is considered one of blues music's greatest piano players. His career began after he settled in Chicago in the late 1940s; by the '50s he had become an ace session man for the legendary Chess label, appearing on sides by Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, and, most memorably, the great Muddy Waters. Spann would prove a key influence on the British blues boom of the 1960s, and it was through that world that he would garner his highest profile as a solo artist, even cutting an album with the Peter Green-led version of Fleetwood Mac, 1969's THE BIGGEST THING SINCE COLOSSUS. Spann died of cancer in 1970 at the age of 40.

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