Yeah same. I grew up on old-school straightahead jazz, prog & classic rock, and chicago blues, similar age as you. I love new music. The technical quality of m

Yeah same. I grew up on old-school straightahead jazz, prog & classic rock, and chicago blues, similar age as you. I love new music. The technical quality of modern hip hop and pop are just astounding. There are literally dozens of producers working right now who would have been singular TITANS even a generation ago. Thanks to the black church "farm league" world-class virtuosic drummers and singers who are expert improvisers are easy to find as session musicians and it has completely changed how ambitious producers and songwriters are able to be. And jazz now is fucking wild, it's unreal. The influence from hip hop & electronic I saw coming but metal, of all things, being a big one I did not. And the jazz/pop crossover influence is as fertile as it has always been. People need to get over their fear of autotune and let themselves have fun because it is. Sure yeah most music is not particularly interesting but that has literally always been the case. But right now there is more variety than there ever has been, more skill going into making it, more good shit happening than there ever has been I think.