There may be a type of jazz you don't like, but I guarantee there is more jazz you like than don't like. Vince Guaraldi is fully jazz... and he wrote all the music for The Peanuts. Ornette Coleman is a freeform jazz sax player who breaks all the rules and assembles them into new shapes. You won't like him. Stan Getz is as cool as they come, and even if you hate melody, "Take Five" is a drum solo that you love, and can probably already mimic most of, because it is so woven into our culture. Al DiMeola. The Modern Jazz Quartet. Medeski, Martin & Wood. Earl Klugh. Kenny G. Spyro Gyra. And that's not even moving to the edges of Jazz, where people will argue with you whether it is even jazz or not... Dr. John, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Frank Zappa, Nina Simone, etc, etc, etc. Something - Side B, track 3 of that one LP you really like, but it's a weird song, but you like it and find yourself humming along to it - will break the shell on Jazz for ya... and it will seep in, and one day you will realize that you actually like a lot of tracks that kinda venture into that territory... and then you'll find your particular "flavor" of jazz. But Ornette, and Parker, and Coltrane, and Miles, and ... they might always be off the plate. Who knows? :-) I don't think I'll ever enjoy straight up Jazz. It's just not for me.
I was a jazz studies major for a bit in college, which I think give me licence to make the claim that I hate way more jazz than I like. I own maybe two hundred jazz albums that I think are worthwhile. When I get a crate of records off some old guy or gal I usually toss 95% if the jazz right in the dumpster. It's roundly derivative unispired wankery. Every once in a while I'll find some Ellington or Ella but mostly it's more godamn Dave Brubeck or other white jazz bullshit, fit only for elevators or the timid elderly. Off the top of my head list of jazz musicians that have some albums that are great. Duke Ellington John and Alice Coltrane Sonny Stitt Sonny Rollins Less McCann Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie Eddie Harris Mose Allison Don Cherry Miles Davis Sun Ra Errol Garner Billy Cobham Branford Marsalis Wes Montgomery Charles Mingus Jaco Pastorious Ornette Colmon Nina Simone I'm running out off the top of my head pics but I like most if it. I forgive anyone that hates the general, there way more chaff than wheat.
We went to the record shop today and most of the cds I bought were Béla Fleck. Two used and one new. I call Béla Fleck and the Flecktones 'banjo jazz' sometimes when people ask me to try to describe them. It is kind of weird how sd86 and I share quite a bit of the same tastes musically but I listen to a lot more jazz and jazz-adjacent stuff than he probably ever will. Most of the stuff I have gotten from bandcamp has been British jazz, lately.