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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
ron_hartman
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Gee, there is only Delta Blues? All my years of listening to Chicago blues, and now I find out it's fake. No more Magic Sam, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush. And what about Piedmont blues, Sonny Terry - Brownie McGhee? And Texas blues, Johnnie Copeland, Albert Collins.

I wonder where people would put T-Bone Walker. Jazzy blues or bluesy jazz?

And Bessie Smith, the Queen of the Blues, playing with all those New Orleans jazz musicians.
orpheus10
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The Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues, but performed in an urban style.


When you take "The Delta blues" to Chicago, it becomes "The Chicago Blues".



How about "The UK Blues" when they take it over there?
orpheus10
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"Fake" was a bad word. A "derivative of Delta Blues" would have been more appropriate.
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three_easy_payments
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@whatjd 

As much as I like B.B. King, I do not consider him Jazz

I think the lines can be more blurred that you're giving credit to.  You do realize there's an immense body of work of BB King recording with the Jazz Crusaders, right???
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ejlif
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I have had the same thought before and wondered why they get lumped together.  I agree two totally different vibes.  When I think of what I like about jazz it's the core concept of it.  When I think about what I don't like about blues it's the core concept of it.  
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