Let's make this birthday one to remember.

76 years old (Born on July 17, 1949)

Happy Birthday, Chico Freeman! May your day be smoother than a saxophone solo and more vibrant than the melodies from "The Outside Within," your timeless masterpiece that earned Stereo Review's Record of the Year in 1981. Clearly, you've been hitting all the right notes ever since!

Here's to another year filled with soulful improvisations and standing ovations. Keep jazzing up our lives with those award-winning tunes—because let's face it, birthdays are just like great jazz solos: they only get better when you stop counting measures (or candles). Cheers to you for keeping music alive—and agelessly cool!