Breaking The Tethers

Breaking The Tethers

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Breaking The Tethers episodes

  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking 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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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 13, 2026
    An Art Blakey kinda episode, including an interview with Fraser Calhoun and Nat Lazzarotto, who talked about their concert series. Plus some brand-new music played.

    Playlist:
    • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Hipsippy blues
    • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Quick trick
    • Steve Husted and Friends - When we were young
    • Rémi Bolduc - The licking
    • Nick Fraser - There are other ways
    • Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie's EXTENDED - drifting_turning
    • Hendrik Meurkens - Herb's samba
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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.…