Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait Of Hampton Hawes (A Da Capo paperback)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0306801019
ISBN 13
9780306801013
Category
Jazz
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Publication Year
1979
Publisher
Pages
180
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. - from Amzon
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