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Happy birthday to the iconic, smooth jazz saxophone legend “Kenny G” Gorelick who celebrates his 70th birthday, today born June 5, 1956 in Seattle, WA 🎷🎂

Happy birthday to celebrated fusion drummer Peter Erskine who turns 72 today, born on this day in 1954 in Somers Point, NJ 🎂🥁

Known as “The Senator” amongst colleagues, bassist Eugene Wright (5.29.23 – 12.30.20) joined The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1958 as a fill-in for their U.S. Department of State tour of Europe and Asia in 1958, but would stay a decade until Brubeck disbanded the quartet in 1968

Danish-born American trombonist Kai Winding (May 18, 1922 – May 6, 1983) appeared on 4 of the 12 tracks on Miles Davis’ groundbreaking LP “Birth of the Cool” in 1949, while his friend and later frequent collaborator J.J. Johnson appeared on the rest of the album

Massively influential trumpeter, composer, and visionary Miles Davis (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) contributed to a number of innovations in jazz throughout his four decade career with landmark albums in the hard bop, cool jazz, third stream, and fusion subgenres




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Visionary arranger, composer, and saxophonist Bill Holman (May 21, 1927 – May 6, 2024) was a key figure in the sound and style of the cool jazz sub-genre, arranging works for Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Art Pepper, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Lewis, and many others

Happy birthday to bassist Christian McBride who turned 54 yesterday, born May 31, 1972 in Philadelphia, PA 🎼🎂

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Acclaimed NE Ohio native trumpeter Sean Jones turns 48 today, born May 29, 1978 in Warren, Ohio 🎺🎂

Happy birthday to drummer Kenny Washington who turns 68 today, born May 29, 1958 in Staten Island, NY 🥁🎂