I haven't blogged lately, so I missed posting on the actually birthday of George Gershwin.

September 26, the birthday of Jacob Gershovitz, better known as George Gershwin.

America has been blessed with great popular music. For my money it's hard to beat the Great American Songbook. Contributing as much as anyone was George Gershwin. Think Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, George and Ira's collaboration on Porgy and Bess. Here is the official website for George and Ira. You can listen to some of the music the brothers created.

The Gershwins demonstrated that "popular" and "high quality" can go together.