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:

April 22, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 22, 2024
Keywords for this show, among others: Baritone sax, guitar, bass, Neil Young.

Playlist:
Sonny Sharrock - Promises kept
Sam Wilson - Into the hollow
Fumio Itabashi - Tone
David Larsen - Cohesion
Neil Young - Say hello to Chicago
Disaster Pony - Fruit flies in Cola
BK Trio - The stratosphere
Henri Texier - Les la-bas
Sean Mason - Closure
Christina Ruf - mite
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April 15, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 15, 2024
This week's ingredients include: some long tracks, spiritual jazz, a banana, a freak-out, and mud bogging.

Playlist:
Kamasi Washington - The magnificent 7
Kate Gentile - Smother
The Replacements - Nightclub jitters
Carla Bley - Five banana
Alice Coltrane - Leo
Way Back Whens - Mud boggin
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April 08, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 8, 2024
Not the craziest edition of Breaking The Tethers but solid stuff was played. Much Canadian content! Lots of new releases!

Playlist:
Mike LeDonne Groover Quartet + Gospel Choir - Lonnie's lament
The Microscopic Septet - Bye-ya
Andrea Superstein - Musicbox
Sam Wilson - Light through the window
Turboprop - Aureole
Touching - Scattershot
Aimee-Jo Benoit - Moon at the window
Daggerboard - Petracorinda
Fumio Itabashi - Waterase
Quentin Tolimieri - Changing/same
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April 01, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 1, 2024
This was the Cool Bass edition of Breaking The Tethers.

Playlist:
Disaster Pony - Hot like bugs
Apollo Suns - Crybaby
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Mike Downes - Sirlessly
Tony Jones and Jessica Jones - Bird's word
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Soho chase
Kate Gentile - In casks
Russ Speigel - Slippery slope
Gaston Reggio - Ya no veras
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March 25, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 25, 2024
The main event this week; Alice Coltrane and group kick out the jams on a 28 minute freak-out version of "Africa"!

Playlist:
Alice Coltrane - Africa
Dan Balmer - Wes (for my favorite)
Turboprop - Skeletons
Steve Raegele - (Sisyphus)
Spike Wilner Trio - Mind games
Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm - Be normal
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March 18, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 18, 2024
Arthur and Jeff from Last Ark Out joined BTT to talk about their new album, Lift. Loads of other fine tunes followed.

Playlist:
Last Ark Out - Scorpio
Last Ark Out - Libra
Steve Ash - Effendi
Brian Scarborough - Strange bird
Kate Gentile - Prescience
Kate Gentile - Effulgence
Wide Hive Players - Chase through grey room
Yusef Lateef - Love theme from Spartacus
Various Artists - Let's get together
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March 11, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 11, 2024
Had a interview with Will Régnier, talking about his new album, Traces. Thanks Will! Also, there was James Brown, solo bass, solo piano, another variation of Soft Machine, and much more!

Playlist:
Will Régnier - Traces
Will Régnier - Lights out
James Brown & The James Brown Band - The popcorn
Mike Downes - Before the unknown
The Moore-McColl Jazz Society - Sojourn in a minor
Mark Burnell - Ain't dat good news
Soft Heap - A.W.O.L.
Gordon Lee Quartet - How can it be?
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February 27, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 26, 2024
Jazz flute! Oddball guitar! Avant (small) big band! Saxophone strangeness! Fusion funkiness!

Playlist:
Lori Bell Quartet - Black narcissus
Mary Halvorson - Desiderata
Andrew Hill - Noon tide
Allison Burik - Birka 581
Yusef Lateef - Snafu
The Budos Band - KRITN
Afro-Peruvian New Trends Orchestra - Bahai
Christian Fabian Trio - Hip to the skip
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February 20, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 19, 2024
A nice mix of old and new with a few larger ensemble numbers.

Playlist:
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland, Bill Frisell - Kind folk
Rik Wright's Fundamental Forces - Harmonic tremor
Mike Herriott - Sir Jack
Deantoni Parks - Mirmalfunction
The Neal Kirkwood Big Band - Night city
Sean Mason - Kid
Rachel Eckroth - Oil
James Zollar - Jim Jim
Wayne Shorter - Storm
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February 13, 2024Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 12, 2024
A full plate of music this week. Plenty of variation. And a fair amount of trombone, interestingly.

Playlist:
Yusef Lateef - Ching miau
Allison Burik - Be the dragon
Russ Speigel - E. 22nd ST.
Michael Vlatkovich Ensemblio - Jmz 2
Tyler Hornby - Fill in Tyler
Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm - Coop's condiments
Kristen R. Bromley - First vision
Afro-Peruvian New Trends Orchestra - Baila y goza
Xenopraxis - In a sedimental mood (side A)
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FAQs about Breaking The Tethers:

How many episodes does Breaking The Tethers have?

The podcast currently has 284 episodes available.