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.
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