Let's make this birthday one to remember.

64 years old (Born on December 07, 1960)

Happy Birthday, Matthew Shipp! May your celebration be just like your incredible piano solos—free-flowing and brilliantly unpredictable. Another year of boldly straddling modern classical jazz and free experimentation? Only you can blend such daring complexity into something so excitingly harmonious.

From captivating audiences worldwide to pushing musical boundaries no one else dared approach—you keep surprising us with every performance. Your recent collaborations continue to amaze; each note crafted feels marvelously spontaneous yet perfectly deliberate.

Here's wishing that all life's improvisations remain melodious highlights in the grand composition ahead. Keep hitting keys as joyfully unexpected as life itself!