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Sure, it's all about WHAT YOU LOVE.

It is harder to get good jazz gigs, though.
I've heard that more than once.

Jazz gig Makes a good Spoonerism!

After reading the the sublist of jazz types, most of which are not really jazz, I think what Dougmeister means... is there anyone that can do more than two chords to something other that a perpetual, predictable knocking sound such as a rod knock from an idling Buick. Perhaps sung by a person that isn't being jabbed with a sharp stick and perhaps producing lyrics where the words are something other than "yeah baby" and actually understandable. Maybe someone with a trained and developed voice with vibrato. There is of course bad jazz, but there is very complex jazz that requires years of study and practice to learn as many as maybe 15 or more chords in one song and complex rhythms rather than staying with one or two chords and endless repetition that most anyone can master in two weeks. Mary Had A Little Lamb is more complex than what most rockers do. If your ear is totally untrained jazz will be too complex for you and rock will be fine. Rock is usually timed right to bounce your ass up and down to. You've heard 3 rock songs, you've heard em all. All music is mathematical in nature. Rock is simply rudimentary. It's not the music it's the costumes and the body movements.

If you hear a knock in your Buick when it's idling, it's a main bearing not a rod. If you hear Jazz that is good it is rock and roll i.e. Dan Fogelburg, Steely Dan, And Alan Parsons.