95 years old (Born on March 09, 1930)
Happy Birthday, Ornette Coleman! You're the one who showed us that jazz doesn't just color outside the lines—it tosses out the whole coloring book and invents an entirely new playground. Your groundbreaking album "Sound Grammar" didn't just earn a Pulitzer Prize in 2007; it reminded everyone that improvisation isn't chaos—it's genius having fun.Between reshaping music history with your saxophone's wild journeys to snagging Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards, you've proven you're truly timeless—and admirably unpredictable. Here's wishing you another year of riffs as bold and spontaneous as your career: brilliantly eccentric, eternally inspiring, and never scripted!