Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz.......

The premise of this thread is quite relevant, and one that I have often wondered about myself.


We have clearly illustrated that even the people who create the two genres are so very different; then why shouldn't the music be different. Beyond the commonality of ethnicity, I can't see any similarities. Even the same word means two different things; when a jazz musician refers to "The Blues", does his reference sound like Howling Wolf?

A custom (also called a tradition) is a common way of doing things. It is something that many people do, and have done for a long time. Usually, the people come from the same country, culture, or religion. ... Many customs are things that people do that are handed down from the past.

50 years ago certain radio stations only played certain kinds of music and they were lumped together, not by genre, but by ....... You fill in the missing blank.

Now tell me, what do jazz, blues and Gospel have in common?



Once a tradition is started, it just carries on beyond the time that anybody knows why?

Do you let your food touch on the plate?

One artist who erased the line between Blues and Jazz was Mose Allison. Great songwriter, singer (Bukka White first recorded the classic "Parchment Farm", but Mose did the definitive version), and pianist, always had a great band.