Go ahead, cool papa stoppa.
Ha ha ha.
Great artists of this era, 40s, 50s, and 60s
were W.C.
Handy, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington,
Josh White,
Clara Ward,
and the Ward singers,
Paul Robeson.
These artists would set the stage
for motion pictures, radio, TV.
New people appeared with Star Billing,
Sidney Poitier,
Ossie Davis,
Ivan Dixon,
Ruby Dee,
Roscoe Lee Brown,
and Cecily Tyson came to fame.
In 1966,
Sidney Poitier won an Oscar
for his acting in Lily of the Peak.
Harry Belafonte, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Bill Cosby, and Alvin Ailey.
The Modern Jazz Quartet, Dizzy Gillespie,
Miles Davis in A Silent Way,
Quincy Jones,
Reggie Ruff.
Yeah,
these are the makers of blues,
jazz,
bebop,
acting, and arasmatag.
These were the artists from back in the day till now.