Salsa vs. Jazz — What's the Difference?

A type of Latin American dance music incorporating elements of jazz and rock.

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.

(especially in Latin American cooking) a spicy tomato sauce

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.

A spicy sauce of chopped, usually uncooked vegetables or fruit, especially tomatoes, onions, and chili peppers, used as a condiment.

Big band dance music.

A genre of Latin American music characterized by Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Cuban big-band arrangements, and elements of jazz and rock.

Animation; enthusiasm.

A dance for couples performed to this music.

Nonsense.

(countable) A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers.

Miscellaneous, unspecified things

A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.

(Music) To play in a jazz style.

Any of several dances performed to salsa music.

To utter exaggerations or lies to

(intransitive) To dance the salsa.

To give great pleasure to; excite

Spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods

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;