difference between classical, flamengo and jazz

They're just different genres. You can play rock and roll on a classical guitar if you want to.

Quoting Wikipedia:

Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times.[1] The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common practice period.

Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre with strong, rhythmic undertones and is often accompanied with a similarly impassioned style of dance characterized by its powerful yet graceful execution, as well as its intricate hand and footwork. Flamenco embodies a complex musical and cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain in general, flamenco actually originates from one region: Andalusia. However, other areas, mainly Extremadura and Murcia, have contributed to the development of several flamenco musical forms, and a great number of renowned flamenco artists have been born in other territories of the state. The roots of flamenco are not precisely known, but it is generally acknowledged that flamenco grew out of the unique interplay of native Andalusian, Islamic, Sephardic, and Gypsy cultures that existed in Andalusia prior to and after the Reconquest. Latin American and especially Cuban influences have also been important in shaping several flamenco musical forms.

Jazz is an American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note of ragtime.

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Or in today's world. Classical is normally solo music or played with a chamber instruments. Jazz is played with a more modern instruments often are interpretations of hit pop tunes. While flamingo has a lot of hand slapping the guitar for drum like effects. However nuevoflamingo often shows up on smooth jazz venues and those artitst have the same pop combo as a backup that the modern jazz player does.

Some examples?

Classical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efHwnFAkuA
Flamenco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCtHxyvQrH4
Jazz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPyY80pUujE

And, as you can see, flamenco has not always hand slapping...

Sorry, but I just feel the need to say that FLAMINGO is a bird

and FLAMENCO is a music genre/dance style.

And FLAMENGO, according to Wikipedia is:

"Flamengo is the name of a neighborhood (bairro) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is also the name of the most popular Brazilian soccer team, with the largest number of fans of any other team in the world.

It is the Portuguese word for Flemish, and it was given to the nearby beach (Praia do Flamengo, Beach of the Flemish) because it is believed that a Belgian owned the lands in colonial times. It is located between the Centro (city centre) and Botafogo districts on the edge of Guanabara Bay. The beachfront area is dominated by the "Parque do Flamengo" park, built by Lota de Macedo Soares on nearly 300 acres (1.2 km²) of land reclaimed from the bay and completed in 1960. The park features gardens designed by well-known Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx.

The district is serviced by one metro station, Flamengo, and many bus lines that link it to the rest of the city. It is fairly close to the city centre and offers excellent views of Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain) and the statue of Christ the Redeemer. Home to many embassies and art-decó buildings, nowadays it is mostly a middle-class residential neighborhood.

Its main streets are Senador Vergueiro, Marquês de Abrantes and Paissandu, in addition to the express ways of the Aterro of Flamengo, that links the southern zone to the centre of the city."

Thank you very much, Elecktrablue. :)

Perhaps the mistake is due to the bird is also named "flamenco" in Spanish. And also Flemish (as the people from the region of Belgium as the language) is "flamenco". It is not usual but sometimes we save words. Nevertheless it is a generalized mistake.

(BTW, nice flamingo picture.)

Wikipedia... good one, Electra.

One refinement: I've actually been to Flamengo. But they don't call them Barrios down there - they're favelas :)

I think they are different terms: "bairro" in Portuguese (ie. Bairro Alto, Lisboa) and "barrio" in Spanish (ie. Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid) is more similar to neighborhood or district. "Favelas" are a specific type of neighborhoods and buildings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_favelas_in_Brazil