Tomorrow Afternoon!

Starting off 2026 with a major rebuild of my website. It took many hours of work over the past two months to put this together, complete with a new blog format and email form. The site is now ready for prime time and I'm excited and very happy with the results.

Take a look!

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ZonaVibe weekend residency at Chicago's legendary Jazz Showcase.

Forward to 2026!

Hell's Kitchen Vibe-Centric LMCC Creative Engagement performances at Bella Abzug Park and Dimenna Center along with a performance at Virgilio Park in Queens and a performance with Cucho Martinez at Madison Sq Garden Plaza sponsored by the Jazz Foundation.

2025 year in review highlights!

Circles In A Yellow Room
Jazzweek's Radio Chart nine weeks in top 10, Peak #4
2025 year end top 100 airplay #38
NACC Chart peak #4
Roots Music Report Latin Chart eight weeks #1

Hell's Kitchen Vibe-Centric
November 13th
7 - 8:30 pm
DiMenna Center Benzaquen Hall
450 W 37th St
New York NY 10018
Peter Brainin, Guido Gonzalez, Carlos Mena, Robert Quintero, Joel E. Mateo
Free Concert Register at Eventbrite
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@LMCC_NYC @TheDiMennaCenter

Exciting News! Circles In A Yellow Room is in JazzWeek's Radio Chart Top 10 at #8

Thank You to radio programmers across the country.

Keith, Happy you enjoyed the music! thanks for including Clutch the Hutch on your playlist!

We're looking forward to this Friday evening's performance. We hope to see you there!

Mark it on your calendar! Hell’s Kitchen Vibe-Centric

Cool photos from Anne Haas at Madison Sq Garden Plaza with Cucho Martínez

August 25th Music Birthdays!

Wayne Shorter

Leonard Bernstein

Elvis Costello

Gene Simmons

Billy Ray Cyrus

Hal David

Edward (Ted) Kennedy

Mike Freeman ZonaVibe
Hell's Kitchen Vibe-Centric

Friday September 12, 2025
5:30 - 7pm
Bella Abzug Park
34th Street & Hudson Blvd East
Manhattan

Sponsored by LMCC, NYC Cultural Affairs, Howard Gilman Foundation, HYHK

#MikeFreeman, #latinjazz, #vibraphone, #jazz, #hellskitchen #bellaabzug,

A beautiful day yesterday hanging out at the Newport Jazz Festival. We heard Lakecia Benjamin, Etienne Charles, Cymande, Christian McBride Big Band with guests, and Stanley Jordan. #newportjazzfestival

Bandcamp Friday Today!

Circles In A Yellow Room, by Mike Freeman ZonaVibe 10 track album

Bandcamp Friday, August 1! A great time to buy a copy of Circles In A Yellow Room! Bandcamp Fridays, 100% goes to the artist!

mikefreeman.bandcamp.com/album/circle...

Great photos from last weekend at the Jazz Showcase! www.facebook.com/share/p/18QH...

Hey everybody turn on your radio or head over to WBGO .org Latinjazz Cruise with Bobby Sanabria this afternoon at 4pm ET. My music will be part of today's show!

Thanks Bobby!

Check it out, July 24th, 2025, A Double Header!
Mike Freeman ZonaVibe at Chicago's Jazz Showcase
and the release of Circles In A Yellow Room!

#MikeFreeman #ZonaVibe #vibraphone #latinjazz #hellskitchen

jazzshowcase.turntabletickets.com/r/mike-freem...

Mike Freeman ZonaVibe Mike Freeman - Vibraphone Jim Gailloreto - Tenor Sax Freddy Quintero Kelly - Bass Nathan Rodriguez - Congas Jean-Christophe Leroy - Drums Mike Freeman Vibraphonist・Composer・Bandleader・Recording Arti...

Heads Up Chicago! I'll be at the Jazz Showcase July 24th - 27th. I hope to see you there!
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Mike Freeman ZonaVibe
June 21, 2025 6:30 - 8pm
Lawrence Virgilio Park Queens, NY
Guido Gonzalez, Abraham Saenz, Roberto Quintero, Willie Martinez

42nd street Times Sq street sign with Lincoln Highway street sign underneath

Lincoln Highway sign in Elkhorn, NE

A sunset Lincoln Highway brick road, yellow divider lines, with 2 long shadow people silhouettes

Mike Freeman standing next to historic Elkhorn Lincoln Highway information sign

Passing through Times Sq one day, my eye was drawn to this street sign. I thought to myself, wait a minute Lincoln Highway is in Omaha! It turns out, like Interstate 80 does now, Lincoln Highway used to go from coast to coast! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln...

Mike Freeman ZonaVibe Jazz Appreciation Day Free Performance Today!
Enoch's 480 10th Ave NYC 5:30-7pm

Great find at the Omaha Public Library! If music 🎶, food 🥘, culture, spirituality, and the swamp speak to you, check this out! I’m proud to have produced a benefit concert for Tipitinas Foundation following hurricane Katrina.

Happy to learn and share that I’m a 2025 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement grantee for my project, Hell’s Kitchen Vibe-Centric. This is my fourth LMCC grant award. These concerts will focus on my personal history of living and creating music in Hell’s Kitchen.

This is a post that’s hard to “like”! My daughter is a scientist!

The Five Faces of Jazz - More Rice Than Peas Please - 10/1/1967 - Newport Jazz Festival (Official) YouTube video by Jazz on MV

Roy Ayers with Herbie Mann at the 1967 Newport Jazz Festival.
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Roy Ayers, Vibraphonist Who Injected Soul Into Jazz, Dies at 84 He helped introduce a funkier strain of the music in the 1970s. He also had an impact on hip-hop: His “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” has been sampled nearly 200 times.

“produces a rasping noise, which, in its amplified state, gives one an all too vivid idea of what it might be like to be locked in a closet with a troupe of demented bagpipers.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/a...

Roy Ayer's obit mentions this humorous quote from a 1970 NY Times review at the Village Vanguard. Mr. Wilson went on to say that the fuzztone attachment Mr. Ayers had added to his vibes

How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’ Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding the "illusion of truth" effect can help you avoid falling victim to this trick.

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