Significantly, the Jamal archive takes its place among a collection rich with Black cultural memory. Ed Galloway, associate university librarian for Archives & Special Collections at the Pitt Library System, says Johnson described Jamal’s piano as “magical.” Jamal’s archive stretches well beyond music. Jamal’s daughter has launched efforts to raise funds for a wing in his honor at the Afro American Music Institute. “Ahmad Jamal’s archive doesn’t just preserve one man’s genius,” says Galloway.