#jazz n stuff
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Perhaps @valid bone can answer that question (?)
Blues came first - repetitive lyrics and form meant to induce a trance-like groove for work songs
Jazz is what happens when that same African juice stops being communal work music and starts meeting classical music - much more complicated structure and progressions. There's a billion different kinds of jazz as cities and individual musicians took those same ingredients and mixed them differently