By Carlos Passage
Established by UNESCO in 2011, this day highlights the role of jazz in promoting peace, diversity, and human dignity.
The main celebration will take place in Chicago with a Global Star Concert featuring artists such as Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
The commemoration emphasizes jazz as a tool for peace, unity, and dialogue, with events in more than 190 countries.
We celebrate International Jazz Day with the best-selling jazz album of all time: Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” (1959).
The recording of “Kind of Blue” took place at Columbia Records’ 30th Street Studio in New York City in just ten hours spread over two days, March 2nd and April 22nd, 1959.
Miles Davis was accompanied by legendary saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley on alto saxophone, Jimmy Cobb on drums, and Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly on piano.
