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

Blues in jazz is purely instrumental

Oh contraire, of Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit - I think about the 2nd time I 'really' heard it, I wanted to cry... 

And also I would like to say something about  the Blues that I've always considered fascinatingly contradictory of the art form itself?

Back in the days, in the country (south) when the shotgun house was on Saturday nights, turned into a little juke joint, that house was a jumping!

With one hell of a house party! The corn liquor was flowing and the catfish was frying! Imagine that, the blues making you happy! Just to be alive! Jumpin, bumpin and grinding! 

 

I know if I was born in an unpainted shotgun shack in the middle of nowhere, I would most certainly have the Blues.

Not really, you can't miss - what you never had.

In an interview, Carl Perkins said he desperately wanted to find a way out of the fields in Tennessee, where he toiled picking cotton. He found it in Rock ’n’ Roll. Until that moment, I was unaware Southern white’s also picked cotton ;-) . Brutal way to make a living, much worse than the truck driving Elvis was at the same time doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPCBieSESI
Start listening at 1.26.