Jazz vs. Soul — 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.

In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psýkhein, "to breathe", cf.

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 spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.

Big band dance music.

Emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance

Animation; enthusiasm.

The essence or embodiment of a specified quality

Nonsense.

A part of humans regarded as immaterial, immortal, separable from the body at death, capable of moral judgment, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.

Miscellaneous, unspecified things

This part of a human when disembodied after death.

(Music) To play in a jazz style.

In Aristotelian philosophy, an animating or vital principle inherent in living things and endowing them in various degrees with the potential to grow and reproduce, to move and respond to stimuli (as in the case of animals), and to think rationally (as in the case of humans).

To utter exaggerations or lies to

A human

To give great pleasure to; excite

A person considered as the embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification

To cause to accelerate.

A person's emotional or moral nature

To exaggerate or lie.

The central or integral part; the vital core

(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.

A sense of emotional strength or spiritual vitality held to derive from black and especially African American cultural experience, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.

Energy, excitement, excitability.

Strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, performer, or artist

The substance or makeup of a thing.

Soul music.

Unspecified thing(s).

The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.

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

The spirit or essence of anything.

Nonsense.

Life, energy, vigor.

Semen, jizz.

(music) Soul music.

To destroy.

A person, especially as one among many.

To play (jazz music).

An individual life.

To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

(math) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

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

To endow with a soul or mind.

To complicate.

To beg on All Soul's Day.

To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

(obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

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

Sole.

To distract or pester.

By or for African-Americans, or characteristic of their culture; as, soul music; soul newspapers; soul food.

To ejaculate.

To afford suitable sustenance.

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.

To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

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

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; - sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; - sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; - sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

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

The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;

The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

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

Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

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

A human being; a person; - a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

Play something in the style of jazz

A pure or disembodied spirit.

Have sexual intercourse with;

A perceived shared community and awareness among African-Americans.

Soul music.

The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

A human being;

Deep feeling or emotion

The human embodiment of something;

A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s;