Introduction

Blackjackets: 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute is a celebration of Black art in music over the last 50 years. Showcasing specifically artists that have blueprinted, influenced or dominated the Black charts and/or box offices with their definitive Long Play formats, Blackjackets, is an historic, but entertaining account of too seldom heralded Black legends. Where The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin usually dominate other "classic" album discussions & publications, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and Earth, Wind & Fire appear here as comparable juggernauts.
Blackjackets honors the seminal works of Black acts in jazz, blues, soul, rap, but most importantly, American music.