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 284 episodes available.

Breaking The Tethers episodes:

August 31, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode August 31, 2026
An almost all-new show. And very music heavy!

Playlist:
Bruce Williams - Melody for Melonae
Ensemble Infini - Jhaptala/Milford spirit
Jimmy Layton and his International 'Not Your Daddy's Jazz' Band - Son of fatback boogie
Haruna Fukazawa - Hot & spicy, sometimes sweet
The FreeJazz WallPaper™ - Short abstraction
Moraine - In that distant place
Jeremy Green - And ah WHAT?
Tom Teasley with Dave Ballou - Electric embers
EYM Trio - Wall of Sant'Andra
Raymond Roussel - Multi-watt
Micah Thomas - Box heart
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August 24, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode August 24, 2026
Jazz rock! And more.

Playlist:
Russ Anixter's Hippe Big Band - No quarter/Bitches brew
Goldings Bernstein StewartGoldings Bernstein Stewart - Dissipation blues
Mark Segger Sextet - One note
Pete Mills - Boubar
Balmorhea - Inscape
Valérie Lacombe - Persona
Alan Holdsworth, Alan Pasqua, Jimmy Haslip, Chad Whackerman - Fred
Francois Bourassa Quartet - Pool loop
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August 17, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode August 17, 2026
An "all new" show this week.

Playlist:
The FreeJazz WallPaper™ - The intro
Nicola Miller's Living Things - Telecommunications II
Will Lyle - Lineas de sangre
Satori - Mrs. Mary said her last goodbye
Jean Derome & Somebody Special - Jack's blues
Ardeshir - East of the village
Early Times - Succubus
Asher Gamedze - Lowland
Dave Schumacher & Cubeye - Cubism
Mike Bruzzese - Anomaly
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August 10, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode August 10, 2026
Moody music this week, perhaps?

Playlist:
Goldings Bernstein StewartGoldings Bernstein Stewart - Rhombus
JazzLab Orchestra - Thanks Collier
Rebecca Patterson & Ron Wilkins - Near east
Billy Bang, A. R. Penck - Duo 1
Ensemble Infini - Cartoon
Elton Dean, Mark Hewins - Merilyn's cave
Alexis Martin Ensemble - Pimbina
Bruce Williams - Why can't we
Rachel Grimes - Waltz for Sarah
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August 03, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode August 3, 2026
The mix is great this week!

Playlist:
Soft Machine - Curious dust
Nils Petter Molvær - London-Finsbury Park
Andy Milne - Water's edge part I
The Holland Court Jazz Trio - Manic depression
Nicola Miller's Living Things - Telecommunications I
Ardeshir - Introduction to darn that dream
Iron Kim Style - Mean streets of Pyongyang
Hadley Caliman - Watercress
Elias Haslanger - Faith in family
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July 27, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode July 27, 2026
Mostly new music again and hitting many different styles.

Playlist:
Ted Chubb - Refugee hymn
Black Nile - Ritual of returning
Frank Zappa, Petit Wazoo Orchestra - Chunga's revenge
Seamus Blake - EH medley (Get On Up and Dance, It’s Time to Do What You Want, Get on Down, Freedom Jazz Dance, I Need Some Money)
Dave Schumacher & Cubeye - Prince of darkness
David Blake Quartet - Jonas with a view
Pete Mills - U.M.M.G
Miller Wrenn - Hayward prayed for rain
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July 20, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode July 20, 2026
O Canada? Sort of. A fair amount of new music and new Canadian music this week, plus a couple of trips to the past.

Playlist:
The Plastic Waste Band - Inner gimbal
Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Sharrock - Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt
Vladimir Redzic - Bishop's gambit
Hadley Caliman - Iapetus
Greenhouse Ensemble - Parenthèse I
Ensemble Infini - Guy médite et résonne
Emie R Roussel Trio - Trois lunes
Shunzo Ohno - Musashi
Dave Douglas - One more news
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July 13, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode July 13, 2026
Just a nice mix o' music...

Playlist:
Bobby Hutcherson featuring Harold Land - Goin' down south
CHEER-ACCIDENT - Moon homecoming
Amanda Tosoff - Where the joy is
Gordon Grdina's Haram - En shkawat al hawa
Tobin Mueller & Tomás Martinez - Prelude to emancipation
Nils Petter Molvær - Dusseldorf (Miki Yui)
Black Nile - City of silent angels
David Friesen - Open window
Mike Bruzzese - Antibes
Asher Gamedze - Progressive
Rob Garcia - Maiden voyage
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July 06, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode July 6, 2026
Back to a "regular" episode of Breaking The Tethers, featuring an interview with Christophe from the band Greenhouse Ensemble.

Playlist:
Valerie Lacombe - I found a friend here
Greenhouse Ensemble - Variations sur une turlute
The Cosmic Twins - Letter to Mom
Mandy Faye - Travelling
Pearl & Dean - Asteroid (Pearl & Dean theme)
Seamus Blake - Mean greens
Ensemble Infini - Black hole
Girma Woldemichael - Loga/Gorgeous
Sons of Kemet - My queen is Harriet Tubman
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June 29, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 29, 2026
Day 3 of the 20th anniversary celebration for Breaking The Tethers!

Playlist:
Alice Coltrane - A love supreme
Wes Montgomery - In and out
Jaki Byard - Garr
Food - Astral
Ben Allison & Man Size Safe - Four folk songs
The Aaron Keele Contingent - What difference does it make
Martin, Medeski, and Wood - God fire
Sonny Rollins - Nommo
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FAQs about Breaking The Tethers:

How many episodes does Breaking The Tethers have?

The podcast currently has 284 episodes available.