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

· Music

4.5

22 ratings

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about Breaking The Tethers:

How many episodes does Breaking The Tethers have?

The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.

Breaking The Tethers episodes:

November 11, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode November 10, 2025
Back to the regular mix of new and old this week. 12 tracks played (which is a lot for a jazz show!)

Playlist:
Michael Gibbs, NDR Big Band - June the 15th 1967
Amir ElSaffar - Dignity
Dan Macdonald - One more cup of coffee (valley below)
Karneef - Back to block
Amanda Tosoff - Upon reflection
Nicole Rampersaud - ...and then
Outernet - The crossing pt. II
Flying Horse Big Band - Pharaohs daughter
Jefferson Airplane - Ribump ba bap dum dum
Rich Brown - The kingdom of heaven is within
Margherita Fava - Murrina reprise
Stirrup+6 - Salt lines
...more
0min
November 04, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode November 3, 2025
An all "new" edition of BTT, a little on the intense side overall perhaps...

Playlist:
Yusuf Mumin - Diaspora impressionism
Anthony D'Alessandro - Harlem strut
Christopher McBride - Seven (the human cost)
Rafiq Bhatia - Clearing crickets
David Occhipinti - Southwark
Baltimore Jazz Collective - Red lined outro
Joey Waronker & Pete Min - Big dipper
Noam Lemish - San Francisco is my Copenhagen
...more
0min
October 27, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode October 27, 2025
The post-2025 CJSW Funding Drive BTT show. Thanks to all who donated this year!

Playlist:
Al Muirhead - Corcovado
Rich Brown - Turiyasangitananada - the transcendental lord’s highest song of bliss (meditation for Alice Coltrane)
Alice Coltrane - Battle at Armageddon
Quator de saxophones Nelligan - Essences
Jamile - Jogral
Richard Carr - Essaouira
Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet - Mary Lou's blues
James Brandon Lewis - Don't forget Jayne
...more
0min
October 20, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode October 20, 2025
Playlist:
Brother Jack McDuff - Theme from electric surfboard
Amnesiac Quartet - Bloom
D.D. Jackson - Daylight shooting in Little Italy
Howard Moody, John Surman - Dancing in the loft
Disaster Pony - Hot like bugs
...more
0min
October 13, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode October 13, 2025
New and varied was the theme of this episode of BTT. It's also the last "regular" program before the 2025 CJSW Funding Drive begins (the BTT FD show will be next week, Monday, October 20!)

Playlist:
Etienne Charles - Bilali intro
Etienne Charles - Bilali
Brigette Fontaine - Il se passe des choses (instrumental)
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Saber tooth millipede
Danny Thompson - Minor escapade
Rich Brown - Nyaeba (the griot)
James Danderfer - Tumbletown
Dave Liebman - The call
Eli Yamin - Squeeze in tight
Joey Waronker & Pete Min - Little dipper
David Bode - Dear Prudence/Don't let me down
...more
0min
October 06, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode October 6, 2025
I saw the freak-out and reached for it (mostly)...

Playlist:
Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet - Delilah
Rafiq Bhatia - Occlusion
Francois Rabbath - Kobolds
John Coltrane - Living space
Francois Rabbath - Breiz
Alain Bedard Auguste Quartet - Profumo chaneleone
Evan Parker - Monoceros 2
Bobby Hutcherson - Spiral
...more
0min
September 29, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode September 29, 2025
Soft Works last week, Soft Bounds (a long one!) this week. Plus a few other groovy tracks.

Playlist:
Soft Bounds - Slightly all the time
Voodoo Jazz - Motion sickness
Eric Alexander - Jave
Tom Trio - Let's dance
David Occhipinti - Canticum abaci
...more
0min
September 22, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode September 22, 2025
Lots of songs played (for a jazz show - 11), some weird, some not.

Playlist:
Graham Collier - Part 1 (introduction)
Fieldwork - The night before
Bill King Trio - Hymn #1
Graham Collier - Part 7 (coda)
Aaron Dolman - Stars in a midnight lake (intro)
Joe Bowden - The next step
Soft Works - Madam vintage
Passport - Hexensabbat
Tara Davidson - Train to Tarrytown
Lou Durra - No surprises
Ellery Eskelin - Untitled one
...more
0min
September 15, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode September 15, 2025
Special guests today! Talked with Aimee-Jo Benoit and Lisa Buck from BuckingJam Palace (buckingjampalace.com) about the upcoming Chocolate Box #1 music event.

Playlist:
Lingyuan Yang - Bloodstain
Redline Trio - Douglas firs
Mary Halvorson - Absinthian
Jack DeJohnette - Free above the sea
Dan Weiss - Plusgood
Greg Murphy - Proximity
...more
0min
September 08, 2025Breaking The Tethers - Episode September 8, 2025
Plenty of newly-released music played today. Lots in fusion and funky veins. Note: The album Electricity by Albare should read Eclectricity.

Playlist:
Chris Smith - Go lonely woman
The Budos Band - Overlander
Turtleboy - Vampyrotheuthus infernalis
Greg Murphy - Humpty dumpty
Haas Company - Intravenous
Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus - Benediction
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Freddie
Albare - Round trip
Vijay Iyer Trio - Cardio
...more
0min

FAQs about Breaking The Tethers:

How many episodes does Breaking The Tethers have?

The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.