Dupree Bolton

Bewis Dupree Bolton ( born March 3, 1929 in Oklahoma City, † June 5, 1993 ) was an American hard bop trumpeter.

Dupree Bolton left his home at age 14 and played in 1944, Buddy Johnsn in New York; In 1945 he became a member of the big band of Benny Carter. As early as 1946 he left the music scene; his career was interrupted by drug abuse. He then gained some notoriety through its involvement in recordings of Harold Land, who discovered him in a jazz club in Southside Los Angeles and let him participate in the session of "The Fox " in 1959. He eventually had a few years to serve a prison sentence and played in San Quentin in the prison band with the also imprisoned there, Art Pepper. In 1963 he formed a band with Curtis Amy; they took together in 1963 on the album Katanga for the record label Pacific Jazz. According to another prison in 1967, he played briefly with Bobby Hutcherson and spent the Seventies in deprivation institutions in Oklahoma, where he also played in bands. In 1982, he joined in Oklahoma City on Dexter Gordon; then he returned to the West Coast of the U.S. and disappeared from the music scene.

Swell

• Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 2001
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Edition, London, Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-017949-6.