Jazz vs. Reggae — 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.

Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora.

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.

Popular music of Jamaican origin having elements of Calypso and rhythm and blues, usually with an accent placed on the offbeat.

Big band dance music.

A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is heavily associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies.

Animation; enthusiasm.

Popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar

Nonsense.

Miscellaneous, unspecified things

(Music) To play in a jazz style.

To utter exaggerations or lies to

To give great pleasure to; excite

To cause to accelerate.

To exaggerate or lie.

(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.

Energy, excitement, excitability.

The substance or makeup of a thing.

Unspecified thing(s).

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

Nonsense.

Semen, jizz.

To destroy.

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;