Let's make this birthday one to remember.

65 years old (Born on August 16, 1959)

Happy Birthday, Ellery Eskelin! May your day be as delightfully unconventional and creatively unpredictable as your saxophone solos. You've blown us away year after year with techniques that defy gravity—and occasionally logic—earning you rightful praise from Down Beat Magazine as "a major player in today's creative music." Clearly, the world is finally catching up to what we've known all along: you're a musical genius disguised cleverly behind those quirky notes.

Here's wishing another fantastic orbit around the sun filled with groundbreaking performances and standing ovations (or at least confused yet appreciative nods). Keep pushing boundaries—we'll keep applauding wildly!