Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes

Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
by Hampton Hawes, Don Asher

Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
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Author: Don Asher, Hampton Hawes
Introduction: Gary Giddins
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-11-09
ISBN: 1560253533
Number of pages: 216
Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary of Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes

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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