# Raise Up Off Me

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- Book: [Raise Up Off Me](https://www.bookquiver.com/don-asher/raise-up-off-me) ([Raise Up Off Me.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/don-asher/raise-up-off-me.md))
- Authors: [Don Asher](https://www.bookquiver.com/don-asher), [Gary Giddins](https://www.bookquiver.com/gary-giddins), [Hampton Hawes](https://www.bookquiver.com/hampton-hawes)
- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-15-6025-353-2
- Published: 2001-11-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.