Raise Up Off Me : A Portrait of Hampton Hawes Paperback / softback
by Don Asher, Gary Giddins, Hampton Hawes
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:216 pages, 16 photos
- Publisher:Thunder's Mouth Press
- Publication Date:06/11/2001
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- ISBN:9781560253532
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:216 pages, 16 photos
- Publisher:Thunder's Mouth Press
- Publication Date:06/11/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9781560253532