John Ouwerx

John Ouwerx (8 March 1903 – 13 January 1983) was a Belgian jazz pianist and composer who in 1927 played the first European performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.[1]

Classically trained at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, he travelled to New York in 1923, establishing himself as a jazz musician on his return.[2]

References
  1. "John Ouwerx". OxfordMusicOnline.com. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  2. Sylvie Godefroid, "Ouwerx", Nouvelle Biographie Nationale 11 (Brussels, 2012), pp. 303-304.


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