Breaking The Tethers

By CJSW 90.9 FM

Listen to Breaking The Tethers for music you could call jazz, broadly defined. Free, modal, experimental, avant, out there, and more are words you could use for the music that BTT feeds to your ears. ... more

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How many episodes does Breaking The Tethers have?

The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.

Breaking The Tethers episodes:

April 13, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 13, 2026
An Art Blakey kinda episode, including an interview with Fraser Calhoun and Nat Lazzarotto, who talked about their concert series. Plus some brand-new music played.

Playlist:
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Hipsippy blues
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Quick trick
Steve Husted and Friends - When we were young
Rémi Bolduc - The licking
Nick Fraser - There are other ways
Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie's EXTENDED - drifting_turning
Hendrik Meurkens - Herb's samba
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April 06, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 6, 2026
2/3 new, 1/3 old

Playlist:
Jean-Luc Ponty - Music for electric violin and low budget orchestra
Tom Waits - Alice
Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Spirits unseen
Albert Marquès & Rachel Therrien - Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Alexander Claffy - Hard time killing floor blues
Tempête Solaire - Kronos
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March 30, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 30, 2026
3/4 new, 1/4 old

Playlist:
Lee Morgan - Search for the new land
Mark Tonelli - Praca jardim finotti
Arvind Ramdas - All for none
Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie's EXTENDED - Longing
Pat Bianchi - Wise one
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March 23, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 23, 2026
For the first time in a while, all "new" music today!

Playlist:
Toshiyuki Tsuchitori and Ryuichi Sakamoto - 綾 (Aya)
Dave Stryker - Van Gelder's place
Corcoran Holt - Free
Triple Blind - Chaotic eyes
Géraldine Eguiluz, Michel F Côté - La montana y el agua
Hugo Blouin - Un art du temps
Cyger & Butterworth - Clunky
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March 16, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 16, 2026
This week: Gongs! Shatner! Avant jazz big band! More gongs!

Playlist:
Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie's EXTENDED - Intro
Pat Bianchi - It was a very good year
William Shatner - It was a very good year
Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Impact/Awake
Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Disentomb the brain function
Wanees Zarour - Lifta
Wadada Leo Smith - The Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957
Ishmael Ali - Pastiche
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March 09, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 9, 2026
Mostly new music in this show.

Playlist:
Dave Stryker - Summer night
Kathy Kennedy - AEIOU
Antibalas - Lo life
Orhan Demir, Neil Swainson - Wicked demon
Géraldine Eguiluz, Michel F Côté - La montana y el viento
Interplay Jazz Orchestra - Bite your tongue
Steve Husted and Friends - Nonagon funkola
Iconoclast - How fast is evil?
Noah Franche-Nolan - Prayer
Iconoclast - The master fader
Glenn Makos & Bru - 37 Celcius
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March 03, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 2, 2026
A late-period Coltrane freak-out tops the bill this week!

Playlist:
John Coltrane - My favourite things
Jeff Lofton - The rhythm
Gordon Grdina Quartet - P.B.S.
Hugo Blouin - Le baril geant
Jerry Granelli Trio - Solaria
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February 24, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 23, 2026
Like last week, mostly new music with a special trip to 1970. Lots of Indian and Middle Eastern sounds, too.

Playlist:
Antibalas - Solace
Noah Franche-Nolan - Union town
John McLaughlin - Peace one
John McLaughlin - Peace two
Wanees Zarour - Festival
Bellbird - Murmation
Amir ElSaffar - Ghazalu
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February 17, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 16, 2026
One long trip into the past this week plus a bunch o' new stuff.

Playlist:
Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Simon Goubert, Sophia Domancich - Kings and queens
Jeff Lofton - She's about a mover
Glenn Makos & Bru - Liquid sunshine
Hugo Blouin - Soupe pragmatique
Don Thompson - A waltz in 3 quarter time
Peter Paulsen - Fine feathered
Rick Roe - Modal yodel #2
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February 10, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Podcast February 9, 2026
Maybe a bit on the lighter side this week?

Playlist:
John Surman - Once upon a time
Lisa Hilton - So what
Lee Mason - Big game
Bellbird - Phthalo green
Bobby Hutcherson - Boquet
Steve Berndt - Triplets a go go
Oná Ensemble - Sambado
Led Bib - Iron ore
Lettuce - Clav it up your way
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FAQs about Breaking The Tethers:

How many episodes does Breaking The Tethers have?

The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.