Why are Jazz and Blues often categorized the same?

eagle10

This always puzzles me.
If a band plays a lot of blues you'd often hear a punter say "I dont like Jazz"
Where is the confusion?
Jazz is not blues, Blues is not Jazz they are not even alike.
I love blues but hate Jazz and think they are worlds apart.

Maybe someone can trll me why the two are often categorized the same or why so many people cant tell the difference?

mike65

Cos they is black awight?

Thats the reason, both can be traced in pretty straightforward fashion from Chicago/New York down to the Mississippi delta/the bayous into the Carribiean and across the Atlantic to west Africa.

As to people not being able to tell the difference, I'd suggest Earex. Or some musical education.

eagle10

mike65 wrote: »

Cos they is black awight?

Thats the reason, both can be traced in pretty straightforward fashion from Chicago/New York down to the Mississippi delta/the bayous into the Carribiean and across the Atlantic to west Africa.

As to people not being able to tell the difference, I'd suggest Earex. Or some musical education.

I think musical education is key.

Gid bless their ignorance

jassha

Personally i feel one is a natural progression to the other. Used to isten to nothing but blues in the 80s but have moved onto jazz in the last 10 years. Alot of similarities in my oppinion.

equivariant

eagle10 wrote: »

Jazz is not blues, Blues is not Jazz they are not even alike.

Tell that to Robben Ford/Charlie Parker/Thelonius Monk/Scott Henderson/Larry Carlton/etc....

The blues progression is one of the chord progressions that jazz musicians play most often (probably more than any other progression) and a lot of jazz players base their styles around the blues.

On the other hand, listen to a classic blues player such as Stevie Ray Vaughan playing something like Lenny and then say that has nothiing to do with jazz????

jazzme

They are both more on improvisation which is why there are always classified as the same but each sound so diffrent from one another. What separates the two is their chord progression. Blues usually played with strong emotions to add color to lines,roughtly almost staying in one pitch collection such as E all thoughout the tune. While Jazz is more oragnic where the pitch collections shifts constantly and the player must constantly address each changes.