Let's make this birthday one to remember.

78 years old (Born on April 30, 1946)

Happy Birthday, Joel! May your day be as delightfully curved and improvisationally brilliant as your soprano saxophone solos. Your legendary partnership with Jimmy Lyons continues to inspire jazz enthusiasts everywhere—proving once again that great music never goes out of style.

Here's wishing you another year filled with spontaneous creativity, soulful melodies, and plenty more standing ovations. Keep blowing those notes into the stratosphere; after all these years, you're still hitting every curve perfectly. Cheers to many more fruitful collaborations—and remember: age is just a number...but good jazz? That's timeless!