Similarities and Differences Between Blues and Jazz

Similarities and Differences Between Blues and Jazz
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Similarities and Differences Between Blues and Jazz
Jazz and blues are music genres started by Black musicians in the deep south around the 1900s. According to Leo (2020), the two genres of music have similarities and differences, such as the use of swing notes and mode of play. The similarities and differences in Jazz music make them interesting and gain a huge fan base.
Both jazz and blues music make use of swing notes and syncopated rhythms. The twelve-bar that is used in blues is also used in jazz. Equally, blues and jazz are invention ideas of the relation between African Americans who combined different African and American music concepts to make the two music genres. Similarly, jazz and blues music use mid-tempo, a popular shuffle beat initially used by the jazz genre (Leo, 2020). The similarities between jaz...