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 264 episodes available.

Breaking The Tethers episodes:

January 27, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode January 26, 2026
Only four tracks today, with some freaking out!

Playlist:
Centipede - Septober energy pt. 1
Dave McMurray - The music never stopped
Masayuki Takaynagi - My friend, blood is shaking my heart
Wolfgang Dauner - Collage
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January 20, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode January 19, 2026
The main event: Miles Davis' "Circle in the round", the LONG version!

Playlist:
Miles Davis - Circle in the round
Jason Moran - Sound it out
Nikolov-Ivanovic Undectet - Across the threshold
Hermeto Pasacoal - Guizos (bells)
Phil Miller, In Cahoots - Your roots 2
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January 13, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode January 12, 2026
It's the "holy ghost" this week, plus a bunch of newly-released stuff.

Playlist:
Albert Ayler - Masonic inborn, part 1
Lisa Hilton - Here and there and back and forth
Carl Schultz - Psychohistory
Pogues - Gridlock
Patrick Smith - Banff (intro)
Patrick Smith - Banff
Rick Roe - Hyperbarity
Stockton Helbing Quartet - Eostre
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January 06, 2026Breaking The Tethers - Episode January 5, 2026
A year begins anew, starting with the "son"

Playlist:
Pharoah Sanders - Sun in aquarius
Valley Voice - Wishlow
Anthony Braxton Diamond Wall Trio - Untitled (Composition no. 323c) - part 8
Kronos Quartet, Laraaji - Daddy's gonna tell you no lie
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December 30, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode December 29, 2025
Only one, long track today, a voyage into space with John Coltrane and group, recorded live in Japan, 1966.

Playlist:
John Coltrane - Crescent
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December 23, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode December 22, 2025
All Christmas this week! Christmas, crazy, crazy Christmas...

Playlist:
J.J. Hrubovcak - Greensleeves
Jethro Tull - Ring out solstice bells
Eigenrado - Holy night
Brian Baggett - Skating
Marvin Gaye - I want to come home for Christmas
Wayne Butane - Xmas (excerpt)
Jimi Hendrix - Little drummer boy/Silent night/Auld lang syne
Pentangle - The cherry tree carol
Alias Frequencies - Merry fucking Christmas
Daniel Johnston - Christmas in the looney bin
Richard Thompson - Cutty wren
David Grisman and Jerry Garcia - God rest ye merry gentlemen jam
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December 16, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode December 15, 2025
Christmas is a-comin'... and the music got a bit freakier this week...

Playlist:
Valley Voice - As though they knew
Jazz Bras Dot Com - Soft fight
Baltimore Jazz Collective - Link to Lateef
Mike Longo - Matrix
Anna Webber - Idiom I
Dan Rosenboom - Old ghosts
Jemeel Moondoc, Muntu - The evening of the blue men (excerpt)
Ways + Simon Toldam - Passion
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December 09, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode December 8, 2025
Just a bit of this, a bit of that...

Playlist:
Tony Williams - Memory
Tim Brady - 9.75 pieces about change no. 5.25
Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma - Jazz for dummies
Jason Wool - Zaboraviti
Amir ElSaffar - Orientations I-IV (alternate take)
Myriad3 - Diamond
Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet - Slow frieght
Diego Pinera - Evidence
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December 02, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode December 1, 2025
Today's theme: Spaciness!

Playlist:
Horacee Arnold - Orchards of Engedi
Dan Rosenboom - Prisms, mirrors, portals
Aretha Tillotson - Jill of all
Nels Cline & Gregg Bendian - Mars
Baltimore Jazz Collective - Intercession
Amir ElSaffar - 10:23 am
Keith Jarrett - Flame
Wadada Leo Smith - Organic
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November 18, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode November 17, 2025
Special guests this week: Way Ahead Trio! They played four songs live in the CJSW band room and came in for an interview.

Playlist:
Way Ahead Trio - Six o'clock window wiper
Way Ahead Trio - No title yet
Way Ahead Trio - Obsession
Way Ahead Trio - Goo gone the snail
Afuche - Muscovy
Way Ahead Trio - Dover blues
Baltimore Jazz Collective - Link to Lateef
James Brandon Lewis - Exactly, our music
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FAQs about Breaking The Tethers:

How many episodes does Breaking The Tethers have?

The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.