Two particle azimuthal correlation functions measured in pp and AuAu collisions at sNN = 200 GeV at midrapidity with the central arms of the PHENIX detector are analyzed in order to extract the properties of hadronic jets produced in QCD vacuum and highly excited QCD media, like the jet shape parameters jT and kT, the jet conditional yields (number of associated hadrons per high pT trigger hadron) and the jet fragmentation function.;The analysis of pp data starts with the measurement of the vacuum fragmentation function from which the pT dependence of the mean fragmentation momentum fraction 〈z〉 is extracted. We obtain a constant value of 〈z〉 = 0.74 +/- 0.02 for pT above 3 GeV/c. Soft (non-perturbative) parton fragmentation becomes significant below 3 GeV/c and the slope of the fragmentation function is pT dependent in this region. Gaussian fits to jet induced azimuthal correlations are employed to measure the mean jet fragmentation transverse momentum 〈| jTy|〉 = 359 +/- 11 (stat) +/- 6 (syst) MeV/c and the mean partonic transverse momentum 〈|k Ty|〉 = 964 +/- 49 (stat) +/- 16 (syst) MeV/c.;The analysis of AuAu data is based on azimuthal correlation functions between charged hadrons in the 1.5--3 GeV/c and 3--5 GeV/c pT regions in five classes of collision centrality. The mean jet fragmentation transverse momentum 〈|jTy|〉 is centrality independent and consistent with the value in pp data mentioned above. A strong broadening with the centrality of the extracted mean partonic transverse momentum 〈|kTy|〉 (multiplied by 〈ztrigg〉) is observed. This is an important finding because hadronic jet quenching through energy loss is expected to be accompanied by a broadening effect.;Another important finding is that the jet conditional yields in both the near (Delta&phis; ~ 0) and away (Delta&phis; ~ pi) regions exhibit a slightly raising trend with centrality. This was also expected to accompany the jet quenching found at higher pT based on simple energy conservation considerations.