“We’re all still here”

The PBS NewsHour last night aired a segment about Sonny Rollins, with excerpts from a 2011 interview. Jeffrey Brown asked Rollins if being “one of the last ones” from an earlier time in music weighed on him. Rollins’s reply:

Well, it does. All my friends are gone, Miles, Coltrane, Monk. I mean, in a sense, they're gone, but not really.

I’m the last guy. But, in a way, I’m not, because, when I’m gone, the music, my music, is going to be here. So we’re all still here. We’re all still here.

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[Sonny Rollins was the last living musician from Art Kane’s celebrated 1958 photograph, known as A Great Day in Harlem .]