‘Do you know that you sound like Gershwin?’
Kevin Cole was exposed to George Gershwin at 7 years old. After seeing the 1945 movie, Rhapsody in Blue, he hit the library to learn more about Gershwin. The librarian led him to a book co-authored by Edward Jablonski, who was also a native of Kevin’s hometown Bay...
Gershwin wasn’t the first person to hear about Rhapsody in Blue
The first person to learn of George Gershwin’s jazz-classical fusion piece, Rhapsody in Blue, was not George Gershwin. That is, George saw an announcement in the New-York Tribune that “George Gershwin is at work on a jazz concerto.” News to him. He called Paul...