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You can go a long way with the neck pickup and the right amp sound on a telecaster or other solid body. Also, solid bodies tend to sustain in a different way to old school archtops, but you can emulate that with playing style and technique.
John McLaughlin played jazz on a Mustang, for that matter. Although that was on 60s Miles Davis records that are maybe less conventional in sound.
When I left school I did a BTEC in music which was largely taught by a jazz guitarist who was without doubt the best player I’ve met. There’s so much I could have learned from him that I would have found interesting now, but 17 year old me was more interested in playing Oasis songs
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I'm currently playing on my acoustic as it seems easier to play accurately for some reason. I'm going to have to move to electric at some point and improve my right hand technique as I tend to be a bit percussive on the acoustic (which sounds ok on that instrument).
If not, the envelope could also include my spare, non-remastered CD of A Tribute To Jack Johnson. You could strum-along-a-John-McLaughlin.
My initial reaction to A Tribute To Jack Johnson was to wonder why McLaughlin would have done a tribute to the guy who sang Inside Out and Better Together
Personally, I think it is much more to what and how you play than any choice of gear or "sound". In other words, it's about touch, phrasing, harmonic content, etc.
For example, here is Cecil Alexander sounding like a proper jazz badass on a Jackson Soloist:
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Surely a jem or something is more versatile.