2006-08-26 03:57:59 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Jazz is more about the instruments. It's soothing. The listener connects to sounds. Blues if funky. Guitars, and ho-hum lyrics (at times), that rock your soul and make you want to just rock from side to side.
2006-08-26 04:10:00 · answer #1 · answered by Nuseed 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, music today has destroyed the genre's of music. Remember when Jethro Tull got a Heavy Metal award at the Grammy's? Music is full of idiots.
So, with that said, there are two major differences between jazz and blues: chord progressions and instrumentation. Blues music follows a strict 12 bar pattern of chords. The key may change, but the progression of chords in that key do not. Blues is traditionally played with bass, drum, guitar, piano and harmonica - common instruments you might find in a church recreation center. Blues grew out of gospel music.
Jazz has virtually no limitation on chords played. There is no set progression of the chords either. Often, the more primitive the progression, the hotter: A - Amaj7 - Am7 - F#m7. Also, jazz came out of the Big Band era so virtually any instrument can play. Louis Armstrong - a great Jazz man - played a trumpet. Jean Pierre Rampal plays a great jazz flute.
2006-08-26 04:00:50 · answer #2 · answered by robabard 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The difference is primarily in the chord progressions. Blues is primarily a "I IV V" chord progression, and Jazz tends to be a "I II V" chord progression. The Roman numerals stand for the "degree" of the scale. Ultimately, however, blues can be jazz and jazz can be the blues. Usually they do sound different. There are many variations for both on the types of chord progressions, but those are the fundamental ones.
2006-08-26 04:06:15 · answer #3 · answered by Paul H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One is Jazz and the other is Blues
2006-08-26 04:03:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Blues usually follows a twelve-bar pattern of chord progressions. Some jazz does this as well, but mostly jazz follows its own progression and style - often sounding chaotic, but nearly always neatly resolving back into the basics of the song. Check out artists like Miles Davis (who did incorporate some twelve-bar into his '50s and '60s work) and John Coltrane for examples of this in the jazz world.
I'm not knocking either genre, as I love listening to both of them.
2006-08-26 04:02:17 · answer #5 · answered by christopher_thelen 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jazz is lively and crazy happiness and fast movement,while blues is slow and all about sad or mad stuff,you know blues is like a sad slow jam!
2006-08-26 04:01:11 · answer #6 · answered by Lissa305 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think jazz is a bit more lively than blues. blues is kinda depressing rite?
2006-08-26 04:03:26 · answer #7 · answered by Sgt. Curry 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
jazz has a higher and stronger tone to it and blues has a longer beet to it
2006-08-26 04:02:47 · answer #8 · answered by niki c 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ones spelled j a z z and the other is b l u e s
2006-08-26 04:00:35 · answer #9 · answered by Why Is The Rum Always Gone? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋