I suspect it's because everyone wants to talk about Jazz but almost nobody sits and listens to it long enough to have an ear be able to enjoy listening to it.

I suspect it's because everyone wants to talk about Jazz but almost nobody sits and listens to it long enough to have an ear be able to enjoy listening to it. Like 95% of the people who talk about Jazz never listen to it, but anyone can blather on about some visual piece. They have probably spent 100x more time looking at the album they have prominently displayed than they have spent with it out of it's sleeve.