Breaking The Tethers

Breaking The Tethers

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Breaking The Tethers episodes

  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 5, 2024
    This week, from big band to experimental and a few spots in-between.

    Playlist:
    • The Neal Kirkwood Big Band - Prelude: invitation
    • Mary Halvorson - The gate
    • Marshall Gilkes and the WDR Big Band - Sugar rush
    • Matthew Shipp - I've been to many places
    • Tony Jones and Jessica Jones - Loose talk part 2
    • Brion Gysin - Kick (discomix)
    • Kyle Brenders Quartet - Sciatica
    • The Dave Stryker Trio with Bob Mintzer - Code blue
    • Gerald Cannon - Contemporary focus
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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.…