Breaking The Tethers

Breaking The Tethers

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Breaking The Tethers episodes

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