| |
| | LivinBlues- Otis Spann |
 | | Otis Spann was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 21, 1930 and passed on in Chicago's Cook County Hospital on April 24, 1970. |
 | | When his mother died in 1947, Spann was sent north to stay with relatives in Chicago, where he finally met his idol and stylistic mentor, Big Maceo Merriweather, who accepted the young man as his prodigy. |
 | | Just as Spann's superb and singular talent was being recognized as worthy of far more than sideman status, his health started to fail. |
| www.livinblues.com /bluesrooms/otisspann.asp (328 words) |
|