jazz and salsa

You are right that there have some relation, but they are not at all the same nor similar. Salsa is some music invented in the United States around the 70's or 80's mainly by latin inmigrants and clever managers, basing on rithms and musics from Cuba. Jazz appeared at the end of the 19th century and the begining of the 20th and is what african descendants played in rememberance of african music that was prohibited in slavery times. The main characteristic of Jazz is improvisation. The relation comes because of african originated rithms, and because of cultural exchanges between US and Cuba from 20's to 50's, the period when Jazz was further formed, and also when the muscics that are the origin of salsa were developed for an international audience and recorded.

Salsa is hot, up-tempo, creative Latin music. It's an umbrella term for mid to up–tempo Afro–Cuban and Latin rhythms and styles including: chachachá, mambo, son, cumbia, guajira, guaracha and songo. As for jazz, I find this page explains it well: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz

The salsa (groove) is the root cause of latin music. Latin jazz is the fusion of latin amercian rhythums with amercian jazz. it's a miz of our own traditional rhythums with the Amercian jazz, which has a more africian influence. so hope you understand little about these two, isn't it.

Salsa is a generic description of a branch of Latin music. Jazz is a very large grouping of different musical styles. Modern jazz is also often very advanced music. It was derived from blues, and expanded into many different forms in the 20th century.

Jazz is American. Salsa is Latin. Start with that basic differentiation and work from there. But why separate when you can blend?