Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930 – 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 Is the Blues is an album by blues pianist and vocalist Otis Spann, recorded in New York in 1960 and released by the Candid label. AllMusic reviewer...
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Otis Spann's Chicago Blues (also released as Nobody Knows My Troubles) is an album by blues pianist and vocalist Otis Spann recorded in Chicago at two...
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The Blues Never Die! (category Otis Spann albums)
The Blues Never Die! is an album by the blues pianist and vocalist Otis Spann, recorded in Chicago in 1964 and released by the Prestige label the following...
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Kirwan "Someday Soon Baby" (Otis Spann) – 7:36 – vocals: Otis Spann "Hungry Country Girl" (Otis Spann) – 5:46 – vocals: Otis Spann Side D "Black Jack Blues"...
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The Blues of Otis Spann is an album by blues pianist and vocalist Otis Spann recorded in London in 1964 and released by the UK Decca label. AllMusic reviewer...
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Otis Smith (disambiguation) Otis Spann (1930–1970), American pianist Otis Taylor (musician) (born 1948), American musician Otis Taylor (American football)...
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Danny Kirwan (section Otis Spann, Spencer, McVie)
three albums as a solo artist from 1975 to 1979, recorded albums with Otis Spann, Chris Youlden, and Tramp, and worked with former Fleetwood Mac colleagues...
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group until 1965. In 1965, he formed the Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet, with Otis Spann on piano, to record between gigs with the Muddy Waters band. He eventually...
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Waters also contributed to recordings by Little Walter, Junior Wells, Otis Spann, and others. After Waters's death in 1983, a large number of compilation...
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operations officer Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher Otis Spann, American blues musician Pervis Spann, American radio broadcaster Scott Spann (swimmer), American...
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The Blues Is Where It's At (category Otis Spann albums)
blues pianist/vocalist Otis Spann recorded in 1966 and originally released by the BluesWay label. All compositions by Otis Spann except where noted "Popcorn...
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(recorded 2003, M.C.). A duet session with the pianist Otis Spann in 1960 resulted in Otis Spann Is the Blues and Walking the Blues, released by Candid...
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Pretty Girls Everywhere (section Otis Spann recording)
touring Britain with the Muddy Waters Blues Band in 1964 piano player Otis Spann recorded a version of the song. The song was released in 1967 on the Decca...
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Super Black Blues (category Otis Spann albums)
Super Black Blues is an album by the Super Black Blues Band featuring Otis Spann, Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker recorded in Los Angeles in 1969 and originally...
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Rogers on guitar, Elga Edmonds (also known as Elgin Evans) on drums and Otis Spann on piano—recorded several blues classics, some with the bassist and songwriter...
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guitar, vocals Herman Hassell – bass Frank Kirkland – drums Otis Spann's South Side Piano Otis Spann – piano, vocals S. P. Leary – drums The Jimmy Cotton Quartet...
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AllMusic. Retrieved 6 November 2022. Live at Montreux 1986 (Album notes). Otis Rush and Friends. Eagle Rock. 2006. p. 4. EAGCD313.{{cite AV media notes}}:...
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The Bottom of the Blues (category Otis Spann albums)
blues pianist/vocalist Otis Spann recorded in 1967 and originally released by the BluesWay label. All compositions by Otis Spann except where noted "Heart...
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alongside Otis, Muddy Waters, Luther Johnson, Sammy Lawhorn, Paul Oscher, Pee Wee Madison, S. P. Leary and Willie Smith. After Otis Spann's death in 1970...
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performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, his electric blues band consisted of Otis Spann (piano, vocals), Pat Hare (guitar), James Cotton (harmonica), Andrew Stevens...
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Butterfield Blues Band, Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Otis Spann, and Sam Lay. The album was Waters's biggest mainstream success, reaching...
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Waters on vocals are Little Walter on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Otis Spann on piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Fred Below on drums. Waters recorded...
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Campbell, Ella Fitzgerald, the Partridge Family, James Brown, Diana Ross, Otis Spann, Whitney Houston, Joe Cocker, Kenny Rogers, Henry Mancini, Dave Grusin...
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The Biggest Thing Since Colossus (category Otis Spann albums)
album by American blues musician Otis Spann, released in 1969. The album is also notable for the fact that Spann's backing band on this occasion were...
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Sweet Giant of the Blues (category Otis Spann albums)
Sweet Giant of the Blues is an album by blues pianist and vocalist Otis Spann recorded in New York in 1969 and released by the BluesTime label. AllMusic...
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York City when Malick was sixteen. He played guitar with blues pianist Otis Spann, who invited Malick to live with his family in Chicago. Over the years...
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Walking the Blues (category Otis Spann albums)
Otis Spann except where noted "It Must Have Been the Devil" − 3:50 "Otis' Blues" − 4:16 "Going Down Slow" − 3:57 "Half Ain't Been Told" (Otis Spann,...
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many famous blues musicians backing Williamson, including Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, and Willie Dixon. The first session that Williamson recorded for Checker...
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1 (Capri, 1989) Evie Sands, Any Way That You Want Me (Rev-Ola, 1970) Otis Spann, Sweet Giant of the Blues (BluesTime, 1970) Dusty Springfield, Cameo (ABC...
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