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010 a| 73093765;

020 a| 0698105907 :c| $7.95;

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100 1 a| Hawes, Hampton,d| 1928-1977.=| ^A59941;

245 10 a| Raise up off me /c| by Hampton Hawes and Don Asher.;

260 a| New York :b| Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,c| [1974];

300 a| 179 pages ;c| 22 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

505 0 a| Flash Gordon of the niggers -- Come by my house -- At the hi-de-ho -- University of the streets of New York -- Lady -- Seventeen green Buicks -- Keepers of the flame -- Meet me in Albuquerque -- The Mariana Islands turkey shoot -- Ambassador -- Doko-e-ikima-su-ka? -- New faces of 1952 -- Black wreath -- On the road -- You got shoes, I got shoes -- Son, you hot -- Cattin' with Nica -- B-29 -- Five Christmases -- Autumn leaves turning blue -- Swimming pool -- Watts burning -- Lillian 527-1083 -- Roses -- Blue strings -- Watts and white fence -- Receipt -- Magi.;

520 a| A virtuoso performance of astonishing range, this book is the unsparingly honest and deeply moving account of a life lived allegro con brio, the autobiography of a brilliant musician whose story transcends the glittery jazz world with its dark netherside of drugs and despair, to speak directly to the black experience in postwar America.;

545 a| Hampton Hawes was a near-legendary performer, hailed by critic John Tynan as "one of the foremost jazz piano talents of our generation." Of that fraternity of dedicated and pioneering black musicians who made their rebellion through music, and one of its few survivors, Hampton Hawes has maintained, through his harrowing, both his unique artistic sensibility and a rare comic vision, which find new expression in his writing debut. A fellow musician, who led the house trio at San Francisco's famous hungry i in the sixties, Don Asher is the distinguished author of three novels and the critically acclaimed reminiscence The Eminent Yachtsman and the Whorehouse Piano Player. His short work has appeared in Harper's, Paris Review, and the Saturday Evening Post.;

600 10 a| Hawes, Hampton,d| 1928-1977.=| ^A59941;

650 0 a| Jazz musiciansz| United Statesv| Biography.=| ^A413048;

700 1 a| Asher, Don.=| ^A548979;

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Raise up off me / by Hampton Hawes and Don Asher.

Author/creator	Hawes, Hampton
Other author	Asher, Don.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, [1974]
Description	179 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	Hawes, Hampton, 1928-1977. Jazz musicians--United States. --Biography.

Contents	Flash Gordon of the niggers -- Come by my house -- At the hi-de-ho -- University of the streets of New York -- Lady -- Seventeen green Buicks -- Keepers of the flame -- Meet me in Albuquerque -- The Mariana Islands turkey shoot -- Ambassador -- Doko-e-ikima-su-ka? -- New faces of 1952 -- Black wreath -- On the road -- You got shoes, I got shoes -- Son, you hot -- Cattin' with Nica -- B-29 -- Five Christmases -- Autumn leaves turning blue -- Swimming pool -- Watts burning -- Lillian 527-1083 -- Roses -- Blue strings -- Watts and white fence -- Receipt -- Magi.
Abstract	A virtuoso performance of astonishing range, this book is the unsparingly honest and deeply moving account of a life lived allegro con brio, the autobiography of a brilliant musician whose story transcends the glittery jazz world with its dark netherside of drugs and despair, to speak directly to the black experience in postwar America.
Local note	Little-94378 - $7.95
Biographical note	Hampton Hawes was a near-legendary performer, hailed by critic John Tynan as "one of the foremost jazz piano talents of our generation." Of that fraternity of dedicated and pioneering black musicians who made their rebellion through music, and one of its few survivors, Hampton Hawes has maintained, through his harrowing, both his unique artistic sensibility and a rare comic vision, which find new expression in his writing debut. A fellow musician, who led the house trio at San Francisco's famous hungry i in the sixties, Don Asher is the distinguished author of three novels and the critically acclaimed reminiscence The Eminent Yachtsman and the Whorehouse Piano Player. His short work has appeared in Harper's, Paris Review, and the Saturday Evening Post.
LCCN	73093765
ISBN	0698105907 :

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