I concur! Once you know the rules, you can break them. I believe that jazz hits the most fundamental bits of music. Pure feel. And when someone “breaks” the rules but preserves the “feel”, it’s magic. It proves to me that there is something new, something beyond the predictable. It’s hard to describe. I love jazz for this very reason!
It's more a purely contextual chemical reaction between a set of artists in a certain moment.
Jazz is... quite popular?
Are you familiar with the works of a certain Theodor Adorno?
Not according to Beato
That is, the mechanical effort of forming notes on an instrument and reading them in and then playing a song is replaced by feeling the tune.
Once I've owned a piece of music, I can goof off with the tempo, try some variations, put in some mood.
In a word: jazz.
As an aside, this may help explain why neither jazz nor this sort of thinking is popular. There is much effort involved in hoisting oneself up to this level of skill.