I am exactly like you. I’ve tried for decades to like jazz. It just doesn’t grab me much at all. However, I have one recording I could gladly listen to again and again. It’s the only jazz record I can say that about and I have a small collection of recordings by very well known jazz artists.
I came across this recording thanks to Michael Fremer. He was invited to speak at our Audiophile Foundation and he talked about this recording. I decided that if Michael Fremer recommended it I would buy it. I have a perfectly good turntable and a relatively large vinyl collection, but I don’t buy LPs any more as I’m hooked on streaming my own large CD collection. I made an exception and I am very very glad I did.
the recording is named “Rufus Reid and Caellan Cardello. It’s just a piano and a double bass.
The recording was done in a small performance space in NYC and billed as “New Directions in Jazz Piano”