Let's make this birthday one to remember.

80 years old (Born on August 04, 1944)

Happy Birthday, Bobo Stenson! May your day swing smoother than a jazz trio encore and be filled with more harmony than the legendary interplay between you, Anders Jormin, and Jon Fält. Your timeless melodies have kept us tapping our feet for decades—proving that great music never goes out of style.

From captivating audiences worldwide to crafting albums celebrated as modern classics (we're still humming tunes from "Contra la indecisión"), you've shown how effortlessly cool piano mastery can look—even if we suspect it's not quite so easy behind those keys. Here's wishing another year full of improvisation—and fewer requests for “Free Bird.”