Ojgalli, I can hear live, unamplified jazz on a weekly (or more) basis if I want to, and for a long time I did.
(Now - most of the time I prefer the smoke-free environment of home, where SETs and vinyl make the experience as life-like as possible!)
However, this tubes vs. solid-state business is gross oversimplification. There are solid-state amps that sound more like single-ended triode tube amps than many other tube amps, for example.
Topology - single-ended vs push-pull - and negative feedback are actually more important criteria than hollow-vs-solid-state output stage.