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Champion Jack Dupree: Champion Jack Dupree - Rocks (CD)

1-CD DigiPac (6-plated) with 36-page booklet, 29 tracks, playing time 78:14 minutes.

• Multi-label compilation features Dupree classics originally on the Red Robin, Groove,Apollo, Vik, and Atlantic labels—all of them blistering rockers 
• Jack’s all-star sidemen include guitarists Brownie McGhee, his brother ‘Stick’ McGhee, and Larry Dale and sax blasters Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, King Curtis, and Pete Brown
• Dupree’s hybrid of New Orleans R&B and New York blues was singular
• No other Dupree collection encompasses so many vintage labels
• In-depth liner notes by compiler Bill Dahl cover the entirety of Dupree’s spectacular career as a pioneering blues and barrelhouse pianist
• Rare photos and illustrations in the booklet.


Champion Jack Dupree came by his pugilistic moniker naturally. Before the New Orleans-born piano pounder became a blues legend, he was a prolific prizefighter. But Dupree’s legacy resides not standing in the ring but sitting at the ivories. Over the course of an incredible career that stretched across more than half a century, Jack did an amazing amount of recording - and a whole lot of rocking. 

Dupree laid down a slew of barrelhouse boogies and floor-rattling rocking blues during the postwar era, and Bear Family’s ‘Champion Jack Dupree Rocks’ brings together an impressive array of his greatest rafter-rattlers, With non-stop Dupree stormers including Shake Baby Shake, Shim Sham Shammy, and Nasty Boogie, this disc rocks from beginning to end!

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Dupree, Champion Jack - Champion Jack Dupree - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01 All Night Party Champion Jack Dupree
02 Stumbling Block Blues Champion Jack Dupree
03 Number Nine Blues Champion Jack Dupree
04 Shake Baby Shake Champion Jack Dupree
05 Highway Blues Champion Jack Dupree
06 Drunk Again Champion Jack Dupree
07 Shim Sham Shimmy Champion Jack Dupree
08 Somebody Changed The Lock Champion Jack Dupree
09 The Ups Champion Jack Dupree
10 Lonely Road Blues Champion Jack Dupree
11 Story Of My Life Champion Jack Dupree
12 When I Got Married Champion Jack Dupree
13 Dirty Woman Champion Jack Dupree
14 Old Time Rock And Roll Champion Jack Dupree
15 Down The Lane Champion Jack Dupree
16 Rocky Mountain Champion Jack Dupree
17 Just Like A Woman Champion Jack Dupree
18 Shake Baby Shake Champion Jack Dupree
19 The Wrong Woman Champion Jack Dupree
20 You’re Always Cryin’ The Blues Champion Jack Dupree
21 Woman Trouble Again Champion Jack Dupree
22 My Baby’s Like A Clock Champion Jack Dupree
23 Hello Darlin’ Champion Jack Dupree
24 Lollipop Baby Champion Jack Dupree
25 Shake Baby Shake Champion Jack Dupree
26 Old Time Rock And Roll Champion Jack Dupree
27 Stack-O-Lee Champion Jack Dupree
28 Frankie And Johnny Champion Jack Dupree
29 Nasty Boogie Champion Jack Dupree
Champion Jack Dupree Champion Jack Dupree Shim Sham Shimmy (Robinson-Robinson) Red... more
"Champion Jack Dupree"

Champion Jack Dupree

Champion Jack Dupree

Shim Sham Shimmy

(Robinson-Robinson)

Red Robin 130

 

Ever since he first surfaced on OKeh in 1940 (his '41 platter Junker Blues was the direct precedent for Fats Domino's The Fat Man nearly a decade later), New Orleans native Champion Jack Dupree had been attacking the ivories with a ferocity that anticipated rock 'n' roll.

On 1953's Shim Sham Shimmy, cut for Bobby and Danny Robinson's New York-based Red Robin imprint, his thundering boogie was abetted by Brownie McGhee's crashing, distorted lead guitar (Brownie's brother Stick was also on board, along with bassist Bob Harris and drummer Willie Jones). Dupree was introducing a new dance that had been around forever, yelling lyrics with barrelhouse-tested glee.

Born William Thomas Dupree on July 4, 1910 (or one of several other dates he cited over the years), he spent a lot of his childhood in the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs (an establishment Louis Armstrong also knew well). He learned to play piano in part from watching local 88s aces Drive 'Em Down and Tuts Washington. Dupree headed north in the early '30s, earning his 'Champion Jack' moniker as a prizefighter. He commenced recording in Chicago for the ubiquitous Lester Melrose on OKeh, then served as a cook in the Navy during World War II (he was a Japanese POW for two years). 

Back stateside after the war, Dupree settled into the postwar New York scene and was much in demand as a recording entity, judging from the volume of his postwar discography (labels included Joe Davis, Continental, Lenox, Alert, Apollo, Abbey, Apex, Gotham, Derby, King, and Harlem). Thanks to McGhee's blazing electric axe, Jack's three Red Robin singles hit as hard as anything he did during this nomadic period. Dupree settled into a stable relationship with King Records later in '53, then RCA's Groove and Vik subsidiaries in 1956-57. The piano man made a seminal LP for Atlantic in '58, 'Blues From The Gutter,' then bid the U.S. adieu for the welcoming shores of Europe, where he thrived for the next three decades.

Dupree finally returned to New Orleans to perform at the 1990 'Jazz & Heritage Festival' and make a CD for Bullseye Blues. He was diagnosed with cancer the next year and died in his adopted hometown of Hannover, Germany on January 21, 1992.

- Bill Dahl -

Chicago, Illinois

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17 Jun 2018

Launige Barrelhouse Songs!

Jazzthing 4-5/2018 "Dupree serviert hier launige Barrelhouse-Songs und Blues,darunter Songs, die den 1960 nach Europa übergesiedelten Entertainer sein ganzes Leben begleiten sollten."

18 Mar 2018

Spielfreude und Augenzwinkern

Audio 4-2018 "Champion Jack Dupree brachte neben seiner Spielfreude ein hörbares Augenzwinkern aus New Orleans mit, als er diese 29 Tracks für fünf Labels 1951-58 in New York einspielte, die hier erstmals auf einer CD zusammengestellt sind."

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Dupree, Champion Jack - Champion Jack Dupree - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01 All Night Party
02 Stumbling Block Blues
03 Number Nine Blues
04 Shake Baby Shake
05 Highway Blues
06 Drunk Again
07 Shim Sham Shimmy
08 Somebody Changed The Lock
09 The Ups
10 Lonely Road Blues
11 Story Of My Life
12 When I Got Married
13 Dirty Woman
14 Old Time Rock And Roll
15 Down The Lane
16 Rocky Mountain
17 Just Like A Woman
18 Shake Baby Shake
19 The Wrong Woman
20 You’re Always Cryin’ The Blues
21 Woman Trouble Again
22 My Baby’s Like A Clock
23 Hello Darlin’
24 Lollipop Baby
25 Shake Baby Shake
26 Old Time Rock And Roll
27 Stack-O-Lee
28 Frankie And Johnny
29 Nasty Boogie