Otis Spann
Otis Spann Is the Blues
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AMG Review of Otis Spann Is the Blues
Ron Wynn
All Music GuideOtis Spann may not have been the lues, but he was sure close to being the lues 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.
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