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Otis Spann

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Otis Spann was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. An integral member of the nonpareil Muddy Waters band of the 1950s and '60s, pianist Otis Spann took his sweet time in launching a full-fledged solo career. But his own discography is a satisfying one nonetheless, offering ample proof as to why so many aficionados considered him then and now Chicago's leading post-war blues pianist. Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 – April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist.

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Otis Spann

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1970-04-24

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1930-03-21

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Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 – April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. Otis Spann was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. An integral member of the nonpareil Muddy Waters band of the 1950s and '60s, pianist Otis Spann took his sweet time in launching a full-fledged solo career. But his own discography is a satisfying one nonetheless, offering ample proof as to why so many aficionados considered him then and now Chicago's leading post-war blues pianist. Spann played on most of Waters' classic Chess waxings between 1953 and 1969, his rippling 88s providing the drive on Waters' seminal 1960 live version of "Got My Mojo Working" (cut at the prestigious Newport Jazz Festival, where Spann dazzled the assembled throng with some sensational storming boogies). The Mississippi native began playing piano by age eight, influenced by local ivories stalwart Friday Ford. At 14, he was playing in bands around Jackson, finding more inspiration in the 78s of Big Maceo, who took the young pianist under his wing once Spann migrated to Chicago in 1946 or 1947.