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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
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twoleftears
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPCBieSESI
Start listening at 1.26.
orpheus10
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The Blues also has a universal nature, meaning it's almost everywhere.


Here is Aster Aweke from Ethiopia;


  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULgwcno7gZs


  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w575kDhPBGw



This relates to some of the things Frogman has mentioned.
russashe
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Music is just 'music' until someone puts a label on it.

As the Duke said "there are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed."

This is from a person who knew a lot about jazz and doubtless something about the blues as well.  A man and a woman can argue endlessly about their differences but if they allow the differences to mingle the result is spectacular.  If you don't know what I mean ask your Dad.
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bdp24
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Whatever name you put on them, the debut albums of Van Dyke Parks and (for example) Led Zeppelin are extremely different things. About all they have in common is that they are both music (being generous to LZ ;-). Maybe that's a bad example: Van's Song Cycle has more in common with Classical than it does with Rock.

Now that I've said that: if we consider it acceptable to differentiate between Classical and Rock, why not between Rock and Jazz? Hey, I'm just askin'! But Blues and Jazz? Too much in common to keep them separate.

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