How did duke ellington pave the way for other african american musicians later on down the road?

Ibelieve so yes. the industry for electric guitars (such as gibson, fender, prs, epiphone,ect) has went down over the past few years so i feel things will come back up for the vintage style electric guitar (such as the gibson les paul, fender stratocaster/ telecaster, gibson sg, gibson flying v,) so i feel like they will be bringing more vintage style instruments to the stage-jaydoe