Cast
Fats Waller
Self (archive footage)
Jamie Foxx
Self
Ella Fitzgerald
Self (archive footage)
James Brown
Self (archive footage)
Suzzanne Douglas
Self
Terry Lewis
Self
Billy Eckstine
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Stan Lathan
Self
Rah Digga
Self
Nelson George
Self
Donald Bogle
Self
Fayard Nicholas
Self
Jimi Hendrix
Self (archive footage)
Spike Lee
Self
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Dr. Dre
Self
Aretha Franklin
Mrs. Murphy (archive footage)
Otis Redding
Self (archive footage)
Kyme
Rachel Meadows (archive footage)
Gregory Hines
Self
Whitney Houston
Self
Billie Holiday
Self (archive footage)
John Landis
Self
Christopher Reid
Self (archive footage)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Self (archive footage)
Reginald Hudlin
Self
A.J. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Bessie Smith
Self (archive footage)
Carl Anderson
Self
Diana Ross
Self (archive footage)
Josephine Baker
Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Dandridge
Self (archive footage)
Jasmine Guy
Self
Debbie Allen
Self
Tisha Campbell
Self
Nat King Cole
Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Lena Horne
Self (archive footage)
Quincy Jones
Self
Harold Nicholas
Self (archive footage)
Sean Combs
Self (archive footage)
Billy Dee Williams
Self
The Notorious B.I.G.
Self (archive footage)
Ice-T
Self
Michael Jackson
Self (archive footage)
Wynton Marsalis
Self
Russell Simmons
Self
Little Richard
Self
Eartha Kitt
Self (archive footage)
Alan Parker
Self
Busta Rhymes
Self
Berry Gordy
Self
Snoop Dogg
Self
Rubberneck Holmes
Self (archive footage)
Vanessa Williams
Self - Host
Jimmy Jam
Self
LL Cool J
Self (archive footage)
Smokey Robinson
Self
Tina Turner
Self (archive footage)