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
Blues came from gospel.  Jazz came from New Orleans Dixieland.  There was a lot of gospel in New Orleans.  Jazzy Beale Street is in Memphis, a suburb of Mississippi, where Delta Blues originated.  Chicago Blues arose from southerners ' moving from the south.  All of this is totally correct and entirely wrong in so many ways.
@au_lait

Do you let your food touch on the plate?

hilarious ROFLMAO

does your cafe touch le lait? 
If you really want to search down a root difference between jazz and blues, go to the chord progressions that underpin the vast majority of the tunes & licks in the two genres.  Forgive me if I simultaneously over-simplify and get a little technical here, but the bedrock blues pattern is One Four Five One.  In Jazz, it's Two Five One.  If you say it in your Do-Re-Mi's, the Blues chord progression is basically Do-Fa-So-Do.  In jazz it's Re-So-Do.