- kheili mamnon.lotfan az talfighe jazz va flamenco sohbat konid.aya rishehayee moshtareki dar in do sabk peyda mishe ? ba tashakor az site khobeton ke to in doro zamone ghanjyee bare tarafdarayee mosighiee vagheii

- Blues emerged as a distinctive style in about early 1900s. In that time there was mainly 3 black music genres: blues,jazz,ragtime (u may also add Gospel). Pleas note that the players didn't call themsleves blues or jazz players,the just played! It was decades later that blues researchers & record collectors beginned 2 classify them. For eample "Country Blues" is a term introduced in 1959 by the blues & jazz investigator Sam Charters & by that he meant rural prewar black music with no geographic distinction.You see it's a very general term. Because we don't have any recordings of the 19th century it's hard to say which style came the first, but sure they made more progress after the Civil War. And because blues was so firmly rooted in the black folk music one can't say when it definitely bacame the blues. All we can say is that blues was primarily a rural black music while the jazz was an urban music played with big bands in the vaudeville theatres or concert halls. The whites were unaware of blues (especially in north) & even if aware didn't care much about it. This was also true about most of the Jazz musicians untill W.C.Handy & Ma Rainey & others get acquainted with the blues. Even after that urban people looked it with disdain. It was the music of the lowest social layers of the black community. Anyway,there's no clear-cut edge between the genres in the first decads of the 20th century & sometimes they're together called "The Acoustic Era". The typical Blues as we know today developed gradually over decades & enjoyed its heyday in the Chicago of 1960s. For example it was Muddy Waters who beginned to effectively use the "faltted 5th" as a blues scale degree in 1950s 'n that was a step forward to make the blues scale so differnet from the minor scales, because up to that time the flatted fifth wasnt used as much & blues musicians mainly singed/played the flatted 3rd/7th. On the other hand, the eraly Delta blues as played by Charley Patton was different from typical blues. It was a polyrhythmic music heavily influenced by african rhythms with a narrow melodic range which sometimes included no chord change or harmonic complexity at all! And it's structure was not a 12 bar pattern,it was mostly 1 13 1/2 bar blues! we will talk more about these aspects of the blues in the next part of the series. Anyway,both jazz & blues were a constantly changing & reforming music with mutual interactions. hope this helps,for more information about the history of Jazz, u may read Mr.Niousha Boghrati's recently published book: "Ketabe Jazz: Peydayesh va Sabkshenasi".

- yes dear babak. it was jazz before blues. if you explore the story of the jazz, it retunes to George Gershwin I think, in thelatest decades of 19th century, if I'm right.

- mer c. i Know that jazz and blues are different. in some parts of these articles (about blues) like in the first part the author talkes in a way that there was jazz before blues... this is what i'm askin, is that true? how was jazz before blues?

- Mr. Babak I gotta say:No, actually not. As mentioned in the first part, the first blues records was similar to jazz music, with this deference: blues used pentatonic scales and blue notes. Some branches of PRE-WAR blues was similar to jazz (like piano blues or even new orleans blues). We will describe it later. wait for later BLUES ;)

- در موسیقی جز از لیک های بلوز خیلی استفاده می شه اما نه به این معنی که همانند بلوز شناسایی موسیقی با این لیک ها انجام بشه. خیلی بلوز رو نمیشناسم اما باشنیدن چند لیک در موسیقی میشه به بلوز بودن آن پی برد. اما جزیست ها معمولآ لیک های بلوز رو دچار تغییر و تحول می کنند بطوریکه یک شنونده غیر حرفه ای حتی شاید متوجه نشه که این قسمت از موسیقی جز که میشنوه از لیک های بلوز گرفته شده. جز مانند بلوز چهارچوب خاصی نداره به نوعی هر موسیقی ای که کلیشه های کلاسیک را نداشته باشه و نوازنده بتونه به سادگی اونو با عشق و احساس خودش متحول اجرا کنه می تونه جز باشه. البته موسیقی جز معمولا جدی هست و به نوعی شاید بشه گفت حرفه ای و همین تفاوت مهم این موسیقی با سبک پاپ هست.

- I used to think that jazz is compeletely originated from blues...so at the time of birth of the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.. right? can you explain more about this? thank you.

- Mer C

- salam, in seri az maghalat vaghean ali hastan, adam lezat mibare mikhone. merci az delta freak va merci az harmonytalk.