Jazz vs. Jive — What's the Difference?

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage.

Jazz or swing music.

A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.

The jargon of jazz musicians and enthusiasts.

Big band dance music.

(Slang) Deceptive, nonsensical, or glib talk

Animation; enthusiasm.

To play or dance to jive music.

Nonsense.

To talk in an exaggerated, teasing, or misleading way.

Miscellaneous, unspecified things

To talk or chat

(Music) To play in a jazz style.

(Usage Problem) To be in accord.

To utter exaggerations or lies to

To speak to (someone) in an exaggerated, teasing, or misleading way.

To give great pleasure to; excite

Misleading, phony, or worthless

To cause to accelerate.

To deceive; to be deceptive.

To exaggerate or lie.

To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.

(music genre) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.

(uncountable) A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.

Energy, excitement, excitability.

(uncountable) Swing, a style of jazz music.

The substance or makeup of a thing.

(uncountable) A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.

Unspecified thing(s).

Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk.

(with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

African-American Vernacular English.

Nonsense.

A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz.

Semen, jizz.

A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

To destroy.

Dance to jive music; dance the jive

To play (jazz music).

To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite

To complicate.

To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

(intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.

To distract or pester.

To ejaculate.

A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles, but generally featuring intricate rhythms, improvisation, prominent solo segments, and great freedom in harmonic idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style, on various instruments including horn, saxophone, piano and percussion, but rarely stringed instruments.

Empty or insincere or exaggerated talk; as, don't give me any of that jazz.

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands.

Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;

A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

Play something in the style of jazz

Have sexual intercourse with;