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Dupree Bolton

Jazz trumpeter, born 1920s in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Played in [a=Buddy Johnson]'s orchestra in 1944, joined [a=Benny Carter]'s big band in 1945, disappeared form music scene in 1946 due to drug abuse, re-emerged in 1959, recording with [a=Harold Land], disappeared again, worked with [a=Curtis Amy] in 1962-1963, with [a=Bobby Hutcherson] in 1967, followed by prison sentences resulting in an absence of 15 years. "His few recordings reveal Bolton to have been a brilliant and stylish player; a mysterious figure, his reputation has, if anything, been enhanced by his tormented private life and obsessive personal secrecy." (Chris Sheridan, The New Grove dictionary of jazz, 1988)