Jazz vs. Soul

Jazz vs. Soul — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Jazz and Soul

Jazznoun

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.

Soulnoun

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.

Jazznoun

Big band dance music.

Soulnoun

This part of a human when disembodied after death.

Jazznoun

Animation; enthusiasm.

Soulnoun

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).

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Jazznoun

Nonsense.

Soulnoun

A human

“the homes of some nine hundred souls” (Garrison Keillor).

Jazznoun

Miscellaneous, unspecified things

brought the food and all the jazz to go with it.

Soulnoun

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

I am the very soul of discretion.

Jazzverb

(Music) To play in a jazz style.

Soulnoun

A person's emotional or moral nature

“An actor is ... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not” (Alec Guinness).
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Jazzverb

To utter exaggerations or lies to

Don't jazz me.

Soulnoun

The central or integral part; the vital core

“It saddens me that this network ... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news” (Marvin Kalb).

Jazzverb

To give great pleasure to; excite

The surprise party jazzed the guest of honor.

Soulnoun

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.

Jazzverb

To cause to accelerate.

Soulnoun

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

a performance that had a lot of soul.

Jazzverb

To exaggerate or lie.

Soulnoun

Soul music.

Jazznoun

(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.

Soulnoun

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.

Jazznoun

Energy, excitement, excitability.

Soulnoun

The spirit or essence of anything.

Jazznoun

The substance or makeup of a thing.

What jazz were you referring to earlier?What is all this jazz lying around?

Soulnoun

Life, energy, vigor.

Jazznoun

Unspecified thing(s).

Soulnoun

(music) Soul music.

Jazznoun

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

Soulnoun

A person, especially as one among many.

Jazznoun

Nonsense.

Stop talking jazz.

Soulnoun

An individual life.

Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.

Jazzverb

To destroy.

Soulnoun

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

Jazzverb

To play (jazz music).

Soulverb

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

Jazzverb

To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

Soulverb

To beg on All Soul's Day.

Jazzverb

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

Soulverb

(obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

Jazzverb

To complicate.

Soulnoun

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

Jazzverb

To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

Soulnoun

a human being;

there was too much for one person to do

Jazzverb

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

Soulnoun

deep feeling or emotion

Jazzverb

To distract/pester.

Soulnoun

the human embodiment of something;

the soul of honor

Jazznoun

empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;

that's a lot of winddon't give me any of that jazz

Soulnoun

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

soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement

Jazznoun

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

Jazznoun

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

Jazzverb

play something in the style of jazz

Jazzverb

have sexual intercourse with;

This student sleeps with everyone in her dormAdam knew EveWere you ever intimate with this man?