Well, I'm not into the various flavors of jazz like you are, however, I would venture to say that what you are looking for it still in there somewhere. You just have to be able to find it.

PG has added and continues to add and improve the styles and real tracks so that one may choose from a wide variety of options. The more options you have though, the harder it gets to find the specific ones you may be looking for.

I often have to use filters on the list of styles and real tracks so that I'm able to have a useful list to select from.

If you have been out of BB for a while and are just coming back in 20 years later, yeah, I imagine it's quite overwhelming. Kinda like I experienced when I got out of digital recording and them returned a few short years later to find all sorts of wonderful advancements in the DAW world.

I'd suggest that, even though you have been a PG user in the past, since it's been 20 years, consider yourself as a beginner and look up, and view the tutorial videos. Work through them one by one. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step followed by another.

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Add nothing that adds nothing to the music.
You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.

The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.