
Raise Up Off Me
A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
Thunder's Mouth Press
Published on 6. November 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-56025-353-2 (ISBN)
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
16 photos
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
303 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56025-353-2 (9781560253532)
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Persons
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.
Gary Giddins is the author of Visions of Jazz and Bing Crosby: Pocket Full of Dreams.