Breaking The Tethers

Breaking The Tethers

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Breaking The Tethers episodes

  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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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.…