JAZZ VS. BLUES Jazz and the blues don’t really like each other. They have a joke that says, “A blues guitarist plays 3 chords in front of thousands of people. A jazz guitarist plays thousands of chords in front of 3 people.” They are both from the early 20th century. Blues is from southern United States and jazz came from the African Americans communities in the Southern United States as well. African American people love blues music. Many stores also use blues because it is relaxing. Jazz is more of an African and European folk music. Jazz and Blues both use the guitar, piano, trumpet, saxophone, bass, drums, and the double bass. The blues has a few instruments that the jazz doesn’t use like the Harmonica and the trombone. The only instrument that the jazz uses and …show more content…
The tone of the blues is a melancholic, sharp, slow tone. On the other hand the jazz has more of a swinging, generally associated with smoothness but can be abstract and hyper as well. The etymology of the blues is that in west African mysticism, mourners garments were dyed blue to indicate suffering. The etymology of the jazz is likely derived from jasm, a now obsolete slang term meaning energy. They were both documented in the early 1900’s. In 1980 the blues first published a music sheet by Antonio Maggios. Nine years later the jazz recorded a song by original Dixieland Jass band in 1917. Blues was born in the south. Mississippi and in Texas and then it slowly became popular in Chicago. Jazz was born in New Orleans then it moved to Chicago and New York City. Jazz music concentrates on the show and on everybody that is playing. Meanwhile blues music is more concentrated on a single guitar player and the words of the song. Most jazz music is just instrumental ad no voices. But a blues song always has lyrics. Some people say that jazz was born from blues music just because the blues was