SHUGGIE OTIS レコード& CD

Review: The son of the legendary r&b bandleader Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shuggie Otis carried his father's funk-r&b torch when he dropped his debut album Introducing. Emerging in 1969 when Shuggie was just 15 years old, he certainly sounds wiser beyond his years on record, with his voice a stark and low fixture of this otherwise masterwork in album form, and the many arrangements sounding like they'd come from a musician with decades of practice under their belt, not less than two. Modern listeners are likely to still be captivated by its stylistic breadth, not least by the dazzling instrumental flourishes of 'Sweet Thang' or the proto-neo-soul chromatics of 'Island Letter'.