Blues is blue.Jazz is purple

i always say blues is about taking 8 notes and trying to express yourself the most out of those notes, and jazz is trying to play all the notes in one song to try to express yourself.

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When he started playing the Blues... I said Yes even before I wanted to say Yes.

This dude is incredible just playing around

i just want to listen to him play blues all day

I love Melvin and wish he were as popular as he deserves. Love his style, which drives my playing.

Blues is the Root, without a blues music there wouldn't have been no rock and Jazz! my opinion blues is the best music, although there few of type of blues there is shuffle blues and rock blues, and slide blues, but jazz is more for dance.

I got to open for Melvin in a dive called the Blue Goose in rural Maine of all places, back in the mid 90s. One of the best sounding live bands I ever heard, put on a great show. Really nice guy too. His bass player blew the speakers in my cab he borrowed. :)

I’d love to hang out with this guy and just learn so much about this stuff.

Love his Jazz lines

I kinda get what he’s saying if you play blues and go fancy you turn it into jazz you go heavy it becomes rock... so... what kind of blues am I goin to play? O.O

I see jazz as spicy blues

I have been searching for someone who could really explain this concept. Thank you!

Thank you very much for the explanation :)

Man! That is really cool! Melvin is, in my mind anyway, one of the best guitar players tat has ever lived! You go Brother!

Explained really well, it totally makes senes right now.

He is GREAT at both jazz and blues 👁👄👁

Yes.Sir you are 100% right!!!! Peace & Love.

godbless, Mel- mega informative.

my friend plays the blues and once tried to teach me. all i learned is that good blues cant be taught.

So awesome !!!

Attended Melvin's concert on October 5, 2010 in Lviv, Ukraine. Since then, I have attended many performances of famous stars and no one has approached Melvin in terms of skill. I really want to see him play again.

Man, he's a really good jazz player.

You right to jazz is cleaner but I don't know about the lifestyle of the early jazz players some of them guys didn't have no money and got ripped off pretty badly so in the end a lot of them did have the Blues

Jazz is what you get when you're warming up to do the Blues!

Thanks for explaining!

Mel, you're one of the best. You should have 100k followers fans on KZfaq. The future will catch up to you at some point, right.

That shirt looks comfortable.

One of the greatest.

Greatttttt videoooooo

I wish the electric was turned up when you played your jazz runs. That was amazing.

Thanks, Melvin, for the mesmerizing explanation! One day, hoping you'll return to Ukraine so we can hear you again live.

Having played all these styles (more heavily on Blues), I am going to say that, while they both have their standard forms and improvisation, Jazz differs from Blues, in that it's more complex, musically. Jazz has more chords and Jazz musicians typically "follow" the chord changes, whereas Blues players are typically thinking of playing in key. Jazz also differs in that the soloist may imply certain chord substitutions. There is Fusion too, btw, where Jazz/Blues/Rock can be combined, in terms of approaches. You can have someone take a jazzy approach to playing over Blues, where they follow the chord changes, targeting various tones, or have a chord substitution on their Blues, for example. Rock ranges from simple - like Blues Rock to more sophisticated.

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Thanks much Man!

"blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll" can't agree with you more.

Beautiful fingers

Jazz=Happy Blues=Sad

what is the song he is playing at 01:17?

Blues all day Jazz gives me headaches

Wowwwww

So which came first? Blues or jazz?

Music has the same attributes humans have...even humility and pride...i thought about this for years...im a rock musician...i love rock but im also from new orleans la...home of jazz and blues...I saw how jazz music was revered as the "sophisticated" or "intelligent" music...and blues the "low-level" or "humble" sound....all american music started on the slave plantations in the south...and after slavery, the musicians went up the mississippi river to Chicago and Detroit...and jazz was popular there...our people played jazz to impress whites...funny how whites used that to create rock and show that no matter how dirty or sloppy you play...just do it in love...because we all are dirty in some way...noone is better than the next...and if you dont believe me, listen to how Angus Young of ACDC talks about learning from Chuck Berry, or the Who talk about BB King or The Beatles and muddy waters....most rock musicians learned from afro americans but taught them the most important lesson they needed to learn...which is music is love...no matter how its played. This is why I love and prefer rock music over both...rock Is electricity...the introduction to electric guitar became a defibrillator to the lifeless souls....our bodies are 80%water anyway....but thats another convo in itself. Rock is life....I love rock music

If I'm not mistaken,Bobby Womack wrote a song for the Rolling Stones

blues is jazz without being anxious

Jazz is not only playing fast 😂😂. The chords and scales are changing my friend. I wish it was that simple 😢😢😢

hey melvin when you are reffering to "play what you feel" it also lies on the fact that i still gotta play notes that make sense on the scale right ???

Is that you, Melvin Taylor? I used to come see you play at Rosa's in the 80s.

When something is harmonically complex, it is reflective of the person itself. If someone can demonstrate a lot of practical theory, they’ve been able to spend time studying their instrument as well as probably are culturally informed. In shorter words, music that’s harmonically complex tends to be a little more “refined, classy” because it would require some time and resources to refine instrument playing to that point. So in a way yeah it’s fair to call Jazz a major development of blues. Just my opinion.

Whoever introduce the horn in blues music may have been the one to help create blues as well. The guitar players started mimicking the horn.

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO WANTED HIM TO FINISH LA GRANGE???

i heard rock came from a mix of blues and country

Okay, but why is this on green screen?😂

dommage qu'on entende pas bien la guitare

:55 So, jazz is jazzy. 😋 8/26/21 RIP, the greats.

Sounds to me like jazz is fancy blues

blues was back before the electric gt. louis armstrong etc...

who is this man?

Can't hear the guitar

Muddy Waters is the real king of Rock n Roll 🤘🏼John Lee Hooker is right up there at the top as well

Just think simple one.. Jazz add bebop idea. Blues commonly does not use it.

He sounds eerily like Thanks Obama..

Blues is soooooo much better

Blues uses 3 chords, jazz uses 300 chords.

Blues turned into the most famous songs ever imagined. Jazz became garbage you hear in elevators. No competition

Blues incorporates only the I, IV, and V.

Yes i heard that jazz was originated from blues. But to my ears jazz and blues are very much different. Jazz is probably a much evolved blues so that sometimes there is no traces of blues left. And so that is why it is possible for one to love jazz yet hate blues. Thats me. I feel furious whenever I listen to blues. Something in my soul rejects blues. But I love jazz. Some types of jazz though, because I also hate the bluesy jazz. Hate is a strong word, but ... Thats what I feel.

Dude literally shreds and then compares blues and jazz

ha ha ha ha

Ridiculous, LOL. Who said, "If you don't understand Jazz now, you never will" ??? Was that Dizzy Gillespie?

He plays good and all, but I think, I ThiNnnnnk his opinion on jazz is simply poor. Somehow he's got skill, experience and knowledge, but not perspective. inmyopinion

Jazz sounds jazzy, blues does not. Nice

The difference is, jazz is somehow *more* meaningless

If Obama played the guitar ‼️

Pack a lip, bro?

Sorry but I love blues more than jazz Jazz is just a copy of blues

the reason blues was looked down upon because it was black music