RAISE UP OFF ME by Don Asher, Gary Giddins, Hampton Hawes ( 9781560253532 )

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Title:

RAISE UP OFF ME
A PORTRAIT OF HAMPTON HAWES

By:

Don Asher, Gary Giddins, Hampton Hawes

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1560253533

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9781560253532

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Publisher:

THUNDER'S MOUTH PRESS

Pub. date:

16 October, 2001

Pages:

216

Synopsis:

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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16 photos

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Thunder's Mouth Press

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