For the last few months, she has had Makanda Ken McIntyre play three sets on Tuesday nights. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Studio Museum in Harlem have also presented regular, well-programmed concerts. This summer, the JVC Jazz Festival is stretching up to the Schomburg for the first time for a few of its productions. Jazz is such an important part of Harlem's history, and so difficult to promote commercially, that Ms. Alloway feels great pride about her success in bringing it back there. We've got the Schomburg, but the young people can't go to nightclubs here.
Jazz is a peaceful thing.
You don't go to a jazz club and see anybody fighting. And the clubs are getting more diverse now. We owe this to the community. And after all, people go downtown to spend a lot of money that they can't afford.