For more than 100 years, music and all that jazz has been filling the halls of 145 Broadway.

"Segregation. That is why this whole thing came to be,” said George Scott, president of the Colored Musicians Club. “Now, imagine yourself a talented musician or reporter if you will, and you can't get the job because of your color or gender."

The American Federation of Musicians gave the OK for Union 533 in 1917.

"These guys could do shows and get treated like how they were supposed to because they had their cards," Scott explained.

Buffalo was in tune with other cities known for jazz. Major names came to serenade crowds from dusk until dawn. Fast forward a century years and the Colored Musicians Club takes its visitors on a musical journey through time. It’s easy to imagine hearing Buffalo legends play the performances that gave them their big break, mix music and learn dance moves.

"The forefathers when they set this up, they had a blue print, and we still follow that today,” Scott said. “But, the fact that we make this a musicians home, whether you are from Buffalo, or not, we welcome you."

 The museum is just half of the Colored Musicians Club, because upstairs is what they call the living museum.

"We still have our live music up there,” Scott said. “Every Sunday we still have our jam session which you're talking 84 years straight."

Charles Reedy has been part of those jam sessions for 71 of them.

"Well actually I was about 16 when I started here," Reedy said.

Over the years, Reedy has seen the club get rearranged, grow and shrink in numbers. For his 88th birthday in May, Reedy wants to see more of the chairs filled on and off the stage.

"They promised to bring to bring in some teachers and start classes for the young kids. I'd love to see it," Reedy smiled.

It’s about adding more voices to the soundtrack of Buffalo's musical history.

"People from all over the world, they know the history of this place,” Scott said. “But, people from around the corner, they don't have a clue."