I think that jazz is one of the most diverse genres. I say that I love jazz, about 1% of it anyway. There is tons of jazz that will drive me out of the room, no matter how good the recording. To illustrate I used to get a jazz magazine, Jazziz, I think, and there were well over a hundred album reviews in it every month. So to talk about jazz as a single type of music that one enjoys in total is inaccurate. I think it would be an accomplishment for someone to listen to 1% of all the jazz albums ever released just once.
One thing that jazz music has going for it is that most albums are recorded live in the studio over a couple of days, so you don't get all the "feel" or emotion or humanity lost before that final take, or because the musicians playing on the album never actually met each other. Studio effects are usually kept to a minimum too. Of course that is changing as time goes on, but a lot of jazz is still recorded that way.
One thing that jazz music has going for it is that most albums are recorded live in the studio over a couple of days, so you don't get all the "feel" or emotion or humanity lost before that final take, or because the musicians playing on the album never actually met each other. Studio effects are usually kept to a minimum too. Of course that is changing as time goes on, but a lot of jazz is still recorded that way.