Q: As much as I love jazz, I have never been able to "acquire" a taste for overly dissonant parts that somehow become recognied by music buffs as genius.
A: depending on when and where you get out of your time machine, jazz might just mean pop. or it might mean background music that is easy to listen to, and not for geniuses. it might mean a car, or even a basketball team. jazz means so many things there is almost no way to tell what someone means when they say it. sounds like what you meant is nerd music