Being one of the last of the old kind.

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It was just recently in the news that two performers who worked back in the Big Band Era died, at the ages of 100 and 95 respctively, Bea Wain, a (female) singer., and Larry Elgart, a saxophonist and bandleader. It seems they would be at least among the last surviving well-known performers who worked during the Big Band Era. A few years back, a bandleader from the BBE named Orrin Tucker died, I wondered then if he was the last surviving leader of a band which was a successful one during the BBE (Elgart was a sideman during the BBE, he didn't start his successful band til' the Fifties.)?
The point of this is not just " Who's The Last BBE Dude/ss Alive, Then? "
, but...sort of thinking about being the last/-ish of an old era, and older and newer things existing at the same time ...the fellow shelter-denizen argument going on on the sidewalk, near me, at 3:49 in the morning! I'm cold now, goodnite .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

My saxophone teacher (in the late 1970s/early 1980s) used to play in big bands in the 1930s. What a cool old geezer he was!
He'd say: this is how you play this tune... then play the notation straight down the middle...
Then he'd say: this is how you REALLY play... then he'd swing it.
Left a lasting impression on me... except I had to re-learn how to read music, heh! heh!