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Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes

Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes

Hawes, Hampton
Asher, Don
Giddins, Gary

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMusiciansJazz

ISBN10: 1560253533
ISBN13: 9781560253532
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: Nov 1 2001
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.22
Language: English

Hampton Hawes [1928-1977] was one of jazz's greatest pianists. Among his peers from California the self-taught Hawes was second only to Oscar Peterson. At the time of his celebration as New Star of the Year by downbeat magazine (1956), Hawes was already struggling with a heroin addiction that would lead to his arrest and imprisonment, and the interruption of a brilliant career. In 1963 President John F. Kennedy granted Hawes an Executive Pardon. In eloquent and humorous language Hampton Hawes tells of a life of suffering and redemption that reads like an improbable novel. Gary Giddins has called it a major contribution to the literature of jazz. This book includes a complete discography and eight pages of photographs.

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