<p>A personal memoir of a life of obscurity in the music business chronicles the author's numerous gigs in hotel lounges, roadside honky-tonks, Mafia dens, and socialite clubs over the last fifty years. National ad/promo. Tour.</p>

Notes from a Battered Grand: A Memoir/Fifty Years of Music, from Honky-Tonk to High Society

Arts & Photography

Asher, Don

Music

Harcourt

The pianist and composer illuminates his world of jazz and drugs and shares his experiences growing up Black in America

Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait Of Hampton Hawes

Biographies & Memoirs

Hawes, Hampton

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

The Eminent Yachtsman and the Whorehouse Piano Player

Coward, McCann, Geoghegan

Honeycomb: Ballad of a North Beach cabaret

California Living Books

<p>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.</p>

Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes

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