Miles Davis

2011-06-23T17:35:00.000-07:00

A Proclamation establishing World Jazz Education Day as a tribute to jazz improvisation by past and present artists has been established in concept and officially with the Internal Revenue Service.

It is CYF's intent to submit this draft Proclamation to the President, to the Congress, and to interested Government Agencies. We are hoping to establish April 23 (in all future years) as the World Jazz Education Day.

The Proclamation evolved out of the Central Avenue Jazz Project, which aims to educate youth in our jazz history as well as to educate them in instrumentation and in jazz performance.

Miles Davis, "Autobiography, " (NY: Simon & Shuster/Touchstone; 1989, p405):
"...I think the schools should teach kids about jazz or black music. Kids should know that America's
only organella cultural contribution is the music that our black forefathers brought from Africa, which
was changed and developed here. African music should be studied as much as European ("classical") music. " CYF believe that this thought applies to all persons, equally, and both kids and adults.