Champion Jack Dupree

Champion Jack Dupree. Soundtrack: Being the Ricardos. Champion Jack Dupree was born in New Orleans, LA, in 1909. He was orphaned as a child when his parents were killed in a house fire, reportedly set by the Ku Klux Klan. He was raised in the city's Colored Waifs School for Boys--like another New Orleans jazz great, Louis Armstrong--where he learned to play the piano. He earned a living hustling money...