Jive may refer to:

Businesses

Jive (publisher) is a Japanese Publisher, publishing company in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Shinjuku, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan and was established on May 12, 2003. In 2004, the company sold its stock to Poplar Publishing and now Jive is an affiliate of that company. Magazin ...

, a Japanese publishing company in Shinjuku, Tokyo Prefecture *

Jive Electro Jive Electro was a sublabel of the Zomba Group's Jive Records noted for releasing albums by Groove Armada, Hardknox, and Tangerine Dream as well as few remixes for the Madchester band the Stone Roses. The label was largely active between 1984 ...

, a sublabel of the Zomba Group's Jive Records *

Jive Records Jive Records (later stylized as JIVE Records) was a British-American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba Group of Companies, Zomba Group. In the US, the label had offices in New York City and Chic ...

, an American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 *

Jive Software Jive Software, an Aurea Software company, is a provider of communication and collaboration software for business. Jive was headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2001, Jive maintains additional offices in Portland, OR; San Francisco, C ...

, an Aurea Software company * Jive, a music venue in Adelaide, South Australia

Dances

Hand jive The hand jive is a dance particularly associated with music from the 1950s, rhythm and blues in particular. It involves a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps at various parts of the body. It resembles a highly elaborate version of pat-a ...

, a dance particularly associated with music of the 1950s *

Jive (dance) The jive is a dance style that originated in the United States from African Americans in the early 1930s. The name of the dance comes from the name of a form of African-American vernacular slang, popularized in the 1930s by the publication of a ...

, a dance style that originated in the United States from African Americans in the early 1930s *

Modern Jive Modern Jive is a dance style derived from swing, Lindy Hop, rock and roll, salsa and various other dance styles, the main difference being the simplification of footwork by removing syncopation such as chasse. The term "French Jive" is occas ...

, a dance style derived from swing, Lindy Hop, rock and roll, salsa and others *

Skip jive Skip jive is a British dance, descended from the jazz dances of the 1930s and 1940s jive and ultimately from the Lindy Hop. Danced to trad jazz Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that f ...

, a British dance, descended from the jazz dances of the 1930s and 1940s jive

Other uses

Jive talk Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jiv ...

, an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem *

Jive (software) Jive (formerly known as Clearspace, then Jive SBS, then Jive Engage) is a commercial Java EE-based Enterprise 2.0 collaboration and knowledge management tool produced by Jive Software. It was first released as "Clearspace" in 2006, then renamed ...

, a commercial Java EE-based Enterprise 2.0 collaboration and knowledge management tool * JIVE, an alias for American singer-songwriter

Jive Jones Denny Ira Kleiman (born ), professionally known as Jive Jones (sometimes stylized as JIVEjones or JIVE), is an American singer, songwriter, and producer. Raised in Florida, he got involved in the Miami nightclub scene as a teenager and became a s ...

* Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC, a research institute to support the operations and users of the European VLBI Network *

(born 1981), American singer, songwriter, producer, model, and actor {{disambiguation