If you don’t consider jazz as music, you have no ears.
The jazz musical tradition is rich, brilliant and varied beyond imagining, full of rich emotion, incredible virtuosity and compositional genius.
True, it kind of fell of the cliff with the arrival of atonal “free” jazz in the 1960s, but so did European classical music fall off the same cloff after the 12-tone crap took over.
As for modern pop music, there is some good stuff, but I agree it’s mostly crap. But then again, so is modern American society.
I love good music but I absolutely hate bad music.
Bad music includes Jazz, Heavy Metal and Rap.
“True, it kind of fell of the cliff with the arrival of atonal “free” jazz in the 1960s, but so did European classical music fall off the same cloff after the 12-tone crap took over.”
The problem is the same with many styles of music. Everyone tries to push the boundaries to sound unique and differentiate themselves. Then, they end up pushing too far and wind up untethered from the conventional elements that make music appealing to the listener in the first place.
That’s why pop music is so successful, it’s built on the premise of sticking to the most fundamental, basic elements that appeal to listeners. Conventional, familiar harmonies, simple hooks, memorable choruses, and danceable beats are the bread and butter of pop, and listeners never seem to get tired of those.