Recordings are set in stone, but the best ones have playing that uses lots of variation, ornamentation, etc., that you can both enjoy/be in awe of/learn a lot from, without (as you say) necessarily trying to copy slavishly. In recent weeks I've dropped Spotify, which I was paying for but not using much, in favour of an ad-free sub to YouTube. There's a lot of live/spontaneous performance on there, flaws and all, which, for me, beats the ultimate sterility of even really good recordings. But you really can't beat learning from active listening and learning from your mates in sessions. It may be slow, but it's the best way if you can ditch the urge to be impatient.