Oral history interviews chronicling these musicians’ professional careers. In 1986 Arnett Cobb and his daughter Lizette Cobb created the Jazz Heritage Society of Texas as a non-profit education, literary, and cultural arts organization. Arnett Cobb expressed an interest in wanting to create a jazz archive. In 1987 the Jazz Heritage Society of Texas partnered with the Houston History Research Center to document the under-represented jazz scene of Texas by establishing the Texas Jazz Archive. This archive was to include this group of artists to be associated with the Texas Jazz Archive.