Harlem will get a jazz museum, and the need for it is great. “Since the music has long been an international language, tourists from around the world will be coming to Harlem in ever greater numbers. They won’t see a statue of Charlie Parker, but they’ll be in his presence, along with that of his progenitors. They, and visitors of all ages, will learn, interactively, dimensions of American history through the lives of embodiments of what Ellington called the ‘unhampered expression of complete freedom reflecting the ideals of American Independence’.”