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The Hot Spot: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Verve
Category: Music
Buy New: $14.98
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 71555
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 846813
UPC: 042284681322
EAN: 0042284681322
ASIN: B0000047BA
Release Date: August 31, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Coming To Town - John Lee Hooker, Earl Palmer, Tim Drummond, Miles Davis, Roy Rogers | | • | Empty Bank - Taj Mahal, Miles Davis, Earl Palmer, Tim Drummond, Roy Rogers | | • | Harry's Philosophy - John Lee Hooker | | • | Dolly's Arrival - Earl Palmer, Tim Drummond, Roy Rogers, Taj Mahal | | • | Harry And Dolly - John Lee Hooker, Tim Drummond, Miles Davis, Roy Rogers, Taj Mahal | | • | Sawmill - John Lee Hooker, Tim Drummond, Miles Davis, Roy Rogers | | • | Bank Robbery - Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Earl Palmer, Tim Drummond, Roy Rogers, Taj Mahal | | • | Moanin' - John Lee Hooker | | • | Gloria's Story - Miles Davis, Bradford Ellis | | • | Harry Sets Up Sutton - John Lee Hooker, Tim Drummond, Miles Davis, Roy Rogers, Taj Mahal | | • | Murder - John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, Tim Drummond, Roy Rogers, Bradford Ellis | | • | Blackmail - Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Earl Palmer, Tim Drummond, Roy Rogers, Taj Mahal | | • | End Credits - John Lee Hooker, Earl Palmer, Tim Drummond, Miles Davis, Roy Rogers, Taj Mahal |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 A strange mix January 9, 2008
Miles Davis' trumpet combined with J L Hooker's mumbling and groaning Delta-Blues? Plus Taj Mahal... What a strange idea! Than again, Miles loved strange musical mixes...
I guess in a contemporary film noir this might work very well (I don't recall seeing the movie) and, indeed, at times it even works well as independent music, but basically, it's much more of a pleasant background music for blues fans...
 the ' HOT SPOT ' flopped March 1, 2006
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
'some times ago, I bought the 'HOT SPOT' CD after watching the frugal Hopper film with the same title, featuring Don Johnson.
The music itself makes me always missing the singings.
The Instrumentalists will be as good as ever, but the whimpering from the selfnamed 'Father of the Electric Blues' will not !!! do.' AH
my favourite title on the 'HOT SPOT CD' is the last one: 13 'End Credits'. TAH
 an ultimate blues CD March 11, 2005
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is one of the ultimate blues albums of all time. It is deep blues; for those who love it. The movie should be ignored.
Still great blues. But what about the price??? June 10, 2002
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I wrote a review of this CD on here 3 years ago. I loved it then, and I love it now. Looking for something else, I came across it today at Amazon.co.uk,... If you blues-loving Americans have anything else to buy across the pond, add this CD to the list. Even with import duty it'll save you a dollar or two on buying it in the States, if you don't pay a fortune on freight. Quite why an American CD is so much cheaper in the UK than in its country of origin is a question Amazon might like to address sometime. I'd love to know the answer!
 A lost opportunity... October 9, 2001
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker and Taj Mahal together on the same album: Wow!... well not quite. The problem is that this eclectic combination was put together specifically to play a Jack Nitzchse composed movie score. As soundtracks go it's good - lot's of drifting, atmospheric playing that's ideally suited to building cinematic moods - but, out of context, a great deal of it sounds like what, of course, it is: the music without the movie.On track after track John Lee Hooker puts in a tour-de-force of deep blues "groans" (so good that they're regularly sampled), Miles Davis inserts trumpet stabs to die for and Taj Mahal (supported by Tim Drummond, Earl Palmer & Roy Rogers) provides superbly earthy backings. But... after 13 often quite similar, low-key offerings it gets (dare I say it) a bit boring. So, why buy it? Well... it's an intriguing one-off mix of brilliant artists, it's great background music and, it contains three real gems: "Gloria's Story" (featuring some beautiful solos from Miles Davis) and the virtually identical "Bank Robbery" & "End Credits" where the group let rip with some wonderfully burning jazz-blues to provide an insight into what treats could have been on offer in a less constrained situation. A lost opportunity but worth the money all the same.
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