Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes

Contributor(s): Hawes, Hampton (Author), Asher, Don (Author), Giddins, Gary (Introduction by)

ISBN: 1560253533 EAN: 9781560253532

Publisher: Da Capo Press (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 15.95 US

Binding: Paperback - Other Formats

Pub Date: November 01, 2001

Annotation: 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.