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:

June 22, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 22, 2026
Day 2 of the 20th anniversary celebration for Breaking The Tethers!

Playlist:
Soft Machine - Out-bloody-rageous
Kronos Quartet and Friends - Daddy's gonna tell you no lie
Sun Ra - Discipline
Pharoah Sanders - Village of the pharoahs pt. 3
Alien Ensemble - Skeleton dance
Return To Forever - Captain Marvel
Lee Morgan - The gigolo
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June 15, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 15, 2026
Day 1 of the 20th anniversary celebration for Breaking The Tethers!

Playlist:
John Coltrane Quartet - Song of the underground railroad
Matthew Shipp - Orbit 2
Paul Motian Band - Mumbo jumbo
Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Pillars of Hercules
Stan Tracey Quartet - Starless and bible black
Ed Palermo Big Band - Moggio
Carla Bley, Paolo Frescu - Five banana
Larry Willis - Inner crisis
Magnus Öström - Piano break song
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June 08, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 8, 2026
All new today!!

Playlist:
Nolan Hildebrand - Generative open graphic score #1
Sharon Minemoto - No way out
Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith - Nine
Amrita - Metamorphosis
The Plastic Waste Band - Inner gimbal
Virginia MacDonald - Last call at Dimitri's
Tumbao Bravo with Paul Vornhagen - Firefly mambo
Jimmy Farace - Decorah's dance
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June 01, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 1, 2026
The Bowline Jazz guys played live at CJSW today! Four fun tracks!

Playlist:
Rob Garcia - Department of peace
Bowline Jazz - The preacher
Bowline Jazz - Choose happy
Bowline Jazz - Doodlin
Bowline Jazz - Once more for good measure
Chris Hazelton - Paris of the plains
James McGowan Ensemble - The minotaur - revolution
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May 25, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode May 25, 2026
The music leans out this week, with no small amount of guitar.

Playlist:
Marion Brown - Track 3
Asher Gamedze - Following up
The Plastic Waste Band - North of the North Pole
Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith - One
Mary Halvorson Trio - Screw's loose (no. 8)
Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith - Three
Emie R Roussel Trio - Klara färdiga ga
Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith - Two
David Sánchez - Bioho en el Magdalena
Miles Davis - Footprints
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May 18, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode May 18, 2026
New follows old this week.

Playlist:
Phil Miller, In Cahoots - Black cat
David Occhipinti - Who's your Dada?
JazzLab Orchestra - Outer chamber
David Sánchez - Benkos liberatador
Alexis Martin Ensemble - La dune du Pilat
Shunzo Ohno - Going home
Rémi Bolduc - Paper trail
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May 11, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode May 11, 2026
Wide musical territory covered this week, with a core of wilder stuff.

Playlist:
Ivo Perelman, Damon Smith - Five
Wolfgang Seligo - Little note
Jimmy Farace - Three headed dragon
Lukas Ligeti - Uncommon notion
The Cosmocopians - Zap
Soft Machine - Turmoil
Squarepusher - Uplands
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - Hexagon
The Reptile Palace Orchestra - Dada sali
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May 04, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode May 4, 2026
A bit of this, a bit of that...

Playlist:
Shakti - What need have I for this, what need have I for that, I am dancing at the feet of my lord, all is bliss, all is bliss
Rémi Bolduc - Rhythm delight
Joyful Talk - Stop freaking out!
Paul Keller Orchestra - Pop tune
Mike Clement - Chad bop
Orhan Demir-Neil Swainson - Nile
Mike Clark, Delbert Bump - Deep in the inner city
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April 29, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Podcast April 27, 2026
Another "all new" program!

Playlist:
Soft Machine - The longest night
Bernie Senensky, Kirk MacDonald - Silver trane
Janel Leppin's Ensemble Volcanic Ash - The collective
Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y - Prodigal son
Juan Dahmen - El fin
Alexander Claffy - Oriental folk song
The Setting - Hold on tight to your music
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April 20, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 20, 2026
We start with a long trip into space with McCoy Tyner, followed by a suite of new songs.

Playlist:
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
Janel Leppin - The brink is home
Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Damocles
Albert Marquès & Rachel Therrien - Solar
Arvind Ramdas - Asiatic raes
Paul Keller Orchestra - Thank you notes
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FAQs about Breaking The Tethers:

How many episodes does Breaking The Tethers have?

The podcast currently has 284 episodes available.