Breaking The Tethers

Breaking The Tethers

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Breaking The Tethers episodes

  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode October 19, 2026
    Mostly new music, nothing too wild... or was there??

    Playlist:
    • Ray Russell - Dangerous bends
    • Vanisha Gould - What an interesting girl
    • Nadah El-Shazly - Claustrophic love
    • Sam Blakeslee Large Group - Ephemeral
    • David Blake Quartet - Joe Pass
    • Passport - Things to come
    • Early Times - Roadside quickie
    • Huguette Lavigne - Allegro jazz
    • Micah Thomas - Logic
    • Tönky Hönk - Twinlings II
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode October 19, 2026
    Guest host this week: Andrew Waller, from Breaking The Tethers

    Playlist:
    • Strawberry Alarm Clock - Galactic symphony - Persian skies
    • Donner Party Reunion - Farewell to Nova Scotia
    • The FreeJazz WallPaper™ - Jungle wallpaper
    • Okonski - Easy
    • Érick d'Orion - Ectoplasme
    • Candice Hoyes - Expecting
    • Assa’d Khoury - Ya shadil alhan
    • Super scintillant - Un
    • Iggy & The Stooges - Doojiman
    • Ziad Rahbani - Bharf esheen
    • Mark Guiliana - B. EAT
    • Pat Metheny with Dave Holland & Roy Haynes - H & H
    • Tom Teasley with Dave Ballou - Elephant dance
    • The Beatles - I'm looking through you (second version - take 3)
    • Adrian Younge - Shake down
    • Molly Pease - Luminescent waves
    • Kate Gentile - Importunate babble
    • Iron & Wine - Serpent charmer
    • Paula Jeanine Bennett, Richard X Bennett - Writings rewrite
    • Sun Ra - Infinity of the universe
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode October 5, 2026
    Jazzed-up Bowie songs for kids, a Hole cover, piano fun, and so much more!

    Playlist:
    • Mike Bruzzese - Hillcrest
    • Joey Alexander - Bemused again (solo improv II)
    • Ulysses Owen Jr. and Generation Y - Celebrity skin
    • Black Nile - Skyrim
    • Rachel Loshak, New Standards - Starman
    • Tönky Hönk - Twinlings III
    • Okonski - Axes
    • Tönky Hönk - Twinlings IV
    • Sally Timms, Jon Langford - The prettiest star
    • Micah Thomas - Night
    • Pete Mills - Exit strategy
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode September 28, 2026
    Mostly long, mostly new this week...

    Playlist:
    • Azar Lawrence - Summer solstice
    • King Crimson - I talk to the wind
    • thèriot - Interlude pas de deux
    • Super scintillant - Caverne
    • Ensemble Infini - Industrial jazz
    • Joel Haynes Trio, Seamus Blake - Transitions
    • Alvin Singleton/Jackie Leung - Mutations
    • Rebecca Patterson & Ron Wilkins - Covid suite IV: the sleeper has awakened
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode September 21, 2026
    Regular host Andrew returns!

    Playlist:
    • Rik Wright’s Fundamental Forces - Mixing glass
    • No Two Eyebrows - Mannington
    • Ulysses Owen Jr. and Generation Y - In bloom
    • Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, Vince Mendoza - Amalayon
    • Tatsuya Nakatani, Shane Parish - Sight lines (excerpt)
    • JazzLab Orchestra - Amigos
    • Joey Alexander - Bemused (solo improv 1)
    • Black Nile - Slauson fog
    • Remi Chabanel, Bernhard Wostheinrich, Volker Lankow - The closing side (back to Earth)
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode September 21, 2026
    Regular host Andrew returns!

    Playlist:
    • Rik Wright’s Fundamental Forces - Mixing glass
    • No Two Eyebrows - Mannington
    • Ulysses Owen Jr. and Generation Y - In bloom
    • Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, Vince Mendoza - Amalayon
    • Tatsuya Nakatani, Shane Parish - Sight lines (excerpt)
    • JazzLab Orchestra - Amigos
    • Joey Alexander - Bemused (solo improv 1)
    • Black Nile - Slauson fog
    • Remi Chabanel, Bernhard Wostheinrich, Volker Lankow - The closing side (back to Earth)
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Podcast September 14, 2026
    Guest host: Adam Kamis, from The Failed Pilot!

    Playlist:
    • Houari Benchenet - Malika
    • Empanada Ilegales - Tranquilo
    • Ana y Jaime - Nina Nana
    • Esquivel - Jalousie
    • Adrian Younge - Human Absence
    • Syrinx - Aurora Spinray
    • Wolfgang Reichmann - Himmelblau
    • The Summerlad - Unknown
    • Pigeon - Today Is Another Day
    • Laurie Anderson - Big Science
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  • Breaking 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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About Breaking The Tethers

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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.…