Viola Plummer: We thought that in this community, after The East was gone, after all the music places were gone... and remember, we had started that in Harlem... "Jazz Comes to Fight Back", because we feel that it is jazz that really expresses, at least for us old people, our culture; it's the music that grew out of struggle, that got interpreted, and that some of the brothers and sisters [jazz musicians] that are still alive didn't play in our community, because there was no places to play when we started. I said the music I like best is jazz, so they called me the jazz policeman; I thought that was the music that was needed in our community.

When we were in the former location down the street, there was a brother who worked for the railroad who had three boys and he would bring them every night. Then there was another lady who has passed away, her nephew would come and they would be awestruck at how these brothers had conquered their instruments, and they would listen... they HEARD the music.