Brad Cheeseman is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer from Hamilton, Ontario. He is most noted for his 2017 album The Tide Turns, for which he received a Juno Award nomination for Jazz Album of the Year – Solo at the Juno Awards of 2018. He performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2016, winning the Grand Prix de Jazz award. His prize, a $5,000 grant and a week of free recording studio time, led to the creation of The Tide Turns.