In 2018 five Philadelphia jazz organizations—Jazz Bridge, Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts, Philadelphia Jazz Project, Jazz Philadelphia, and Ars Nova Workshop—engaged in a collaborative discovery process to explore how to preserve, interpret, and share Philadelphia’s expansive jazz history. Initially funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the one-year Discovery Project brought together leading figures in the local jazz community to develop a vision and lay the groundwork for a sustainable Philly Jazz Archives. Philadelphia has been home to many transformative figures in jazz history, from Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, and Sun Ra to countless lesser-known musicians who shaped the community and its music. The Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project represents the first coordinated effort to identify and preserve original archival materials that will tell the story of the city’s vibrant jazz tradition through manuscripts, recordings, photographs, show programs, newspaper clippings, oral histories, and other materials. The Philadelphia Jazz Archives will be housed at the Charles L Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University in Philadelphia.