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Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes

Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes

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Availability:In StockContributor:Hampton Hawes, Don Asher, Gary Giddins (Introduction by)Publish date:2001-11-06Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9781560253532ISBN-10:1560253533UPC:9781560253532Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Music, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Genres & StylesBook Topic:JazzSize:8.22 x 5.48 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCAN1VVQ8D
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9781560253532ISBN-10:1560253533UPC:9781560253532Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Music, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Genres & StylesBook Topic:JazzSize:8.22 x 5.48 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCAN1VVQ8D
Don Asher is a pianist and the author of six novels and a memoir, Notes From a Battered Grand.
Gary Giddins is the author of Visions of Jazz and Bing Crosby: Pocket Full of Dreams.
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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