Obviously you can play jazz, or any style, on any guitar, or instrument -I love Alice Coltrane’s jazz harp! It’s great you’re thinking outside the box.
Go play the jumbo, if it lights your fuse, then it’s great for playing jazz. For me personally, a jumbo would not be ideal. Smaller guitars are more responsive to a varied attack -in my experience. A large guitar often needs a fair amount of attack to get all that wood moving. Especially if it’s a normal scale length or longer. And then a big guitar needs bigger strings for optimum tone... Again, for me personally, and what I do, a smaller guitar makes life easy, and the music more dynamic. I like a slightly shorter scale (24.9) for the more expressive left hand things I’ll do in jazz playing, like slurs, etc, as well as more complex chord shapes. I get my bass more from the guitar being a twelve fret design, a slot-head, having a smaller bridge, etc, rather just from body size.
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