Published on Feb 27, 2013
William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree (1909?-1992) was the embodiment of the New Orleans blues and boogie woogie pianist, a barrelhouse "professor". His father was from the Belgian Congo and his mother was part African American and Cherokee. He was orphaned at the age of two, and sent to the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs also the alma mater of Louis Armstrong. (More at Wikipedia)
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