Mike Freedman: Guitarist/Composer

The Blue Sky Group recently completed it's debut recording session at Canterbury Music Studios in Toronto. 

We're very excited to be moving forward with mixing and releasing these recordings in the near future!

A new group I'm excited to be playing with:  "Lost In Transit" 

Debut gig next Sunday at the Emmett Ray

Mike Freedman:  guitar

Chris Cawthry:  drums

Dave Levtov:  bass

Into The Daybreak has placed 3rd in the jazz category for the 

One world Music Radio awards:

https://www.oneworldmusicradio.com/2021-album-awards

Thanks to One World Music Radio for the nomination for Jazz Album Of The Year.

Happy to see "Into The Daybreak" doing well on the jazz weekly charts this year.

Thanks to everyone who supported the music!

https://www.jazzweek.com/releases/2021/01/mike-freedman-into-the-daybreak-independent/

Thanks Jazz.fm  for including "Into The Daybreak" in their 25 best Jazz releases of 2021!

Thanks to all the amazing artists who contributed to the making of the CD

JAZZ Fm 25 Best Jazz Releases of 2021

Here are a couple of videos (more to come) from the performance at Small World Music Centre on December 11th:

Thanks to those who made it out on December 11th for the CD Showcase

Video from the event will be posted soon!

It was great making music with these fine musicians (from left to right):

Jeremy Ledbetter…

Early Morning Ride

Mike Freedman:  guitar

Max Senitt: drums

Chris Adriaanse:  bass

It was lot's of fun doing some porch shows from home.

Here's a youtube link with all of my latest live footage:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSiyh3z6JNzswDSU_vRr9XoKGLvAYDGRI

Looking forward to a couple of upcoming gigs:

Thursday August 5th @ Hirut Cafe. 8pm

Jazz Trio 

https://www.hirut.ca/

Saturday August 7th @ Mike's Music Studio. 5pm

Porch quartet

87 Melville Ave

All About Jazz website made "Day Of Change"  the song of the day with a free download:

https://media.allaboutjazz.com/track-day-of-change-by-mike-freedman

https://jazzport.cz/2021/04/28/ruzne-chute-zdanlive-nenapadneho-jazzoveho-menu-z-kanady/

Thanks to Brad Barker and Jazz Fm for playing 5 tracks off the new album on the show "First Listen"

https://www.jazzweekly.com/2021/03/mike-freedman-into-the-daybreak-ernesto/

https://www.cjam.ca/news/

http://cfuv.uvic.ca/cms/?page_id=2429

https://takeeffectreviews.com/march-2021-1/2021/3/9/mike-freedman

"Freedman's playing is thoroughly impressive on Into the Daybreak"

David Reed

https://www.thewhig.com/opinion/columnists/freedmans-playing-is-thoroughly-impressive-on-into-the-daybreak

Thanks to Midwest Record for the positive review of "Into The Daybreak"

"Easy, breezy, groovy jazz guitar from an old Canadian pro"

http://midwestrecord.com/MWR1743.html

First video single: Day Of Change has been released, from the album “Into The Daybreak”. 

Thanks to UAQ 89.5 for adding some tracks from my new album "Into The Daybreak" to their playlists

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/into-the-daybreak/1551592307