Breaking The Tethers

Breaking The Tethers

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Breaking The Tethers episodes

  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode July 21, 2025
    Only five tracks this week but a great five tracks! Includes a couple of "guitar hero" appearances!

    Playlist:
    • Pharoah Sanders - The creator has a master plan
    • Cory Weeds, Jerry Weldon - One flight down
    • New Tony Williams Lifetime - Fred
    • Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus - Moment to moment (for Harry Whitaker)
    • Pat Metheny with Dave Holland & Roy Haynes - Three flights up
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode July 14, 2025
    This was an "all new" show. 9 first time releases, 1 re-release.

    Playlist:
    • Skullcap - Pine trees of Tennessee
    • gallus gallus - 1 (cancri e)
    • Heavyweights Brass Band - North Philly’s finest
    • Charles Kynard - Slop jar
    • DIVA Jazz Orchestra - Ko-ko
    • Dan Weiss - Unclassified actions
    • Tim Jago - Time shift
    • NolasiA - All blues
    • Chris Smith - Elderly woman behind the counter in a small town
    • Albare - Hypothetical retrospection
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode July 7, 2025
    Some new, some old, nothing too far out.

    Playlist:
    • Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus - The child and the warlock
    • Ron Korb - La la formosa postlude
    • Andy Milne & Unison - The call
    • Marion Brown - Sweet earth flying part 3
    • Haas Company - Aphelion
    • Joe Henderson - Loose change
    • Kristen R. Bromley - Wahoo!
    • Bitter Funeral Beer Band - Funeral dance (excerpt)
    • The Empress - Caravan
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 30, 2025
    A bit of a rock element today and longer tracks

    Playlist:
    • Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green - The journey
    • Passport - Homonculus
    • The Mothers of Invention - King Kong (part one)
    • Paul Motian Trio - Yallah
    • Jack Bruce, BBC Big Band - White room
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 23, 2025
    Kinda all over the map...

    Playlist:
    • Kamasi Washington - The magnificent 7
    • Femi Kuti - Last mugu
    • Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet - Rue de royal
    • Mary Halvorson - Carved from
    • Geoffrey Dean Quartet - What may come
    • Wayne Shorter - Montezuma
    • Mike Field - One time in Tibet
    • Brad Turner - Mr. Charles
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 9, 2025
    A break between brotherhood episodes.

    Playlist:
    • Miles Davis, Bill Laswell - In a silent way/Shhh peaceful/It's about that time
    • Reginald Cyntje - Fragility of existence
    • Sonny Sharrock Band - Venus/Upper Egypt
    • James Danderfer Group - Memory loss
    • Triology, Scott Hamilton - Moose the mooche
    • Dr. Lonnie Smith - Monk could swing
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 2, 2025
    Brotherhood starts the show, week one!

    Playlist:
    • Brotherhood Consort - Selflessness
    • Joshua Banks - Agila
    • The AACM Great Black Music Ensemble - Omoi
    • Ronan Guilfoyle - Diversionary tactics
    • Ed Palermo Big Band - The fish
    • Iconoclast - Hope you don't mind
    • Geoffrey Dean Quartet - Prism
    • Bennie Maupin - Mappo
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode May 26, 2025
    Almost an "all-new" show this week!

    Playlist:
    • Bobby Hutcherson - Hello to the wind
    • Miles From India - Great expectations
    • Steve Lehman - L.A. genes
    • Cecil Taylor - T (beautiful young 'un)
    • Cosmic Cliffs - Serpentine suspension
    • Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra - On the bus
    • Farnaz Ohadi - Lama bada
    • Sheldon Agwu - Unsing heroes
    • Gerald Clayton - Rush
    • Benjie Porecki - Wise decisions
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode May 12, 2025
    This was an all-new show, the first of 2025!

    Playlist:
    • Jimmy Farace - Growing pains
    • Gerald Clayton - Sacrifice culture
    • Nour Symon - Il n'y a rien à dire sur l’humanité
    • Dave Robbins Big Band - Westcoasting
    • Steve Lehman - 34a
    • The Steve Holt Jazz Impact Quintet - Impact
    • Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band - What is hip
    • Sheldon Agwu - Providence
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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.…