Raise Up Off Me
A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
$53.13
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2001
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781560253532 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1560253533 |
| Author: | Hampton Hawes, Don Asher, Gary Giddins |
| Publisher: | Thunder's Mouth Press |
| Imprint: | Thunder's Mouth Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm x 14mm |
About The Author
Hampton Hawes
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.
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