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

I have been a music fan all my life and listen to classic Jazz and female vocals mostly.  I did not see this throughout most of my life, but now some internet sites and more seem to lump Jazz and Blues into the same thought. 
B.B. King is great, but he is not Jazz.  Paul Desmond is great, but he is not Blues.   

Perhaps next Buck Owens will be considered Blues, or Lawrence Welk or let's have Buddy Holly as a Jazz artist? 

Trite, trivial and ill informed, it is all the rage in politics, why not music?




whatjd
tablejockey
3,947 posts
 
Casual music listeners tend be less detail concerned on what constitutes a  musical genre.
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twoleftears
5,318 posts
 
Right.  And there's absolutely no overlap between the two genres.
frogman
7,476 posts
 
I have to assume that twoleftears is being sarcastic.  The overlap between the two genres is huge and very important.
whatjd OP
1,139 posts
 
Overlap would be in the ears and thoughts of the listener. And if people want to think of Blues/Jazz like Country/Rock or Military/Intelligence that is their right. 

oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 
How's this, Country Western, Rock and Roll, Blues and Jazz were ALL born in the USA. They are bound to cross a few boundaries.
Wrong country for being a purest, ay?

If you think about it, one was born from the another, or branched and taken from another. It's not like Opera, Dixieland jazz, Bali, or Bagpipes, crossing lines... Just sayin, more alike than not...

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