jazz vs jive

jazz and jive both are nouns.

jazz and jive both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
jazz	Yes	No	Yes	No
jive	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, jive is a hyponym of jazz; that is, jive is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than jazz:

jazz: a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
jive: a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

Other hyponyms of jazz include scat, scat singing, bebop, bop, boogie-woogie, boogie, cool jazz, funk, hot jazz, modern jazz, neo jazz, new jazz, trad, swing, swing music, jazz-rock, jazz fusion, sweet jazz.

jazz (noun)	jive (noun)
a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles	a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of 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

jazz (verb)	jive (verb)
have sexual intercourse with	dance to jive music; dance the jive
play something in the style of jazz

Difference between jazz and jive

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