Steinar Aadnekvam, born in Bergen - Norway 1984, has emerged as one of the most exiting guitarists on the Scandinavian jazz scene over the past decade.

After nominations in 2009 for the 'Young Nordic Guitarist Award' by the Uppsala Int. Guitar Festival, and in 2010 finalist at the 'Norsk JazzIntro' at Molde Jazz Festival Steinar launched his own label 'MMYH Records / Music Makes You Happy' with his 2010 debut release 'Simple Things'. The album was immediately embraced by audience and critics alike and on the very day of it's release the Swedish newspaper 'Dalademokraten' wrote "The guitar jazz album of the year! A great new guitarist has presented himself." while the capital newspaper Dagens Nyheter put the release right on it's cover.

In the following years Steinar played feature concerts at clubs and major jazz festivals in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, Poland and Romania and later turned to working on his two Brasilian album collaborations 'Abacaxeiro' and 'Ecology' and extensive concert touring, masterclasses, TV and Radio appearances related to these in the Nordics and in Brasil.

Upon returning to Stockholm, in 2015 Steinar teamed up with Norwegian label Losen Records for his grand project 'Freedoms Tree' featuring an international all-star ensemble including several outstanding musical guests. The album turned out to be a great success and from this large project eventually emerged the Freedoms Trio.

In 2016 the collaboration with Losen Records continued with the release of the album FREEDOMS TRIO featuring top contemporary collegues bassist/vocalist Rubem Farias from Salvador da Bahia, Brasil and drummer/singer Deodato Siquir from Maputo, Mozambique.

Since then the band has made over 100 concert appearences in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland.

March 2018 will see the release of a new album titled "Freedoms Trio II" and the band will notably perform at the 2018 Jazzahead Overseas Jazznight on April 21 in Bremen.