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Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes elton john searching for reasons why ourAuthors: by Hampton Hawes (Author), Don Asher (Author), Gary Giddins (Introduction) Hampton Hawes [19281977] 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