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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
orpheus10
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Among other things, Monk never lets his food touch.
edcyn
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If you really want to search down a root difference between jazz and blues, go to the chord progressions that underpin the vast majority of the tunes & licks in the two genres.  Forgive me if I simultaneously over-simplify and get a little technical here, but the bedrock blues pattern is One Four Five One.  In Jazz, it's Two Five One.  If you say it in your Do-Re-Mi's, the Blues chord progression is basically Do-Fa-So-Do.  In jazz it's Re-So-Do.
orpheus10
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Have you ever heard John Lee Hooker play jazz? Have you ever heard Howlin Wolf play jazz? Have you ever heard Lightnin Hopkins play jazz? Have you ever heard Elmore James play jazz? Maybe there's more to it than;

but the bedrock blues pattern is One Four Five One. In Jazz, it's Two Five One. If you say it in your Do-Re-Mi's, the Blues chord progression is basically Do-Fa-So-Do. In jazz it's Re-So-Do.


I think it's more to it than that.
orpheus10
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I wonder which blues players could play this;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvjZ7fUUBU
acman3
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZezyzdyl8
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