Breaking The Tethers

Breaking The Tethers

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Breaking The Tethers episodes

  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 28, 2025
    A music-heavy show, featuring many different musical styles.

    Playlist:
    • Muhal Richard Abrahams - Arhythm songy
    • Takuya Kuroda - EVERYDAY
    • Stef.in - Aku san zan
    • Dan Moretti & Brazilia - Witch hunt
    • Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen - Stopes change
    • Manu Dibango - Africa boogie
    • Stockton Helbing Quartet - Lele's tune part I
    • The Ostara Project - Voyage sans retour
    • Artemis - Sights unseen
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 21, 2025
    This show featured an interview with musician, composer, and bandleader Rachel Therrien. Also, there was heaven, angels, Satan, purgatory, and a necropolis.

    Playlist:
    • Caili O'Doherty - Struttin' with some barbeque
    • Rachel Therrien - Orun
    • Henri Texier - Quand le blues s'en ira
    • Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band - Heaven on their minds
    • Roy Haynes - Satan's mysterious feeling
    • Dr. Purgatory - Necropolis
    • Pete La Roca - Lazy afternoon
    • Michael Musillami Trio - Today the angels
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 14, 2025
    Tuba, Chapman Stick, piano, prog, and much more!

    Playlist:
    • Jeremy Ledbetter Trio - Gravity
    • Hot 8 Brass Band - Big tuba
    • Stan Tracey Quartet - Starless and bible black
    • Brian Baggett - Ojos verdes
    • Emerson Lake & Palmer - Piano improvisations
    • Steve Lehman - 23c
    • The Irv Grossman Sextet - Sound advice
    • Rh Positive: Jim Heineman's Dream Band - Whirlwind
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 7, 2025
    Dig all-women groups and loads of oddball jazz this week!

    Playlist:
    • Rachel Therrien - Beauty free
    • Archie Shepp - The mac man (alternate take)
    • The Ostara Project - Rajalaskshni
    • Reginald Cyntje - Impact
    • Artemis - Komorebi
    • Robin Kenyatta - You know how we do
    • Stef.in - Juan Soto
    • Robert Creeley, Chris Massey, Steve Swallow, David Cast, David Torn - Words scattered
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 31, 2025
    Out there + Africa + moody mellow

    Playlist:
    • McCoy Tyner - Contemporary focus
    • Jeff Beck Group - Ice cream cakes
    • Joe Farrell - Motion
    • Okonski - Summer storm
    • Manu Dibango - Waka juju part 1
    • Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Pillars of Hercules
    • Manu Dibango - Waka juju part 2
    • Benjie Porecki - Sonora
    • Sonny Simmons - Things and beings
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 17, 2025
    A special seven (tracks) on the show!

    Playlist:
    • Yellowjackets - Xermeris
    • Healing Force - A man is like a tree
    • Jacob Wutzke - Warriors
    • Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - DeJohnette
    • Okonski - Penny
    • Nanami Haruta - The vibe
    • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The drum thunder suite
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 10, 2025
    Solid, solid music today!

    Playlist:
    • Paul Motian Band - Mumbo jumbo
    • Rachel Therrien - Orun
    • Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band - Whipping post
    • Miles From India - All blues
    • Roy Haynes - Roy's tune
    • Steve Lehman - Unbroken and unspoken
    • Juan Perea - Tyner time
    • Keith Jarrett - Diatribe
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 3, 2025
    A jazz-rock kinda show, maybe a little proggy...

    Playlist:
    • Merl Saunders - Welcome to the basement
    • Shabaka - To the moon
    • Lee Morgan - Exotique
    • Ariane Racicot - Avant la tempete
    • Jazz Sabbath - Spiral architect
    • Billy Cobham - Moody modes
    • Gunter Hampel Galaxie Dream Band, Jeanne Lee - Folk song/Languages, seeds and roots/No. 74/grand tour part e.
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 17, 2025
    An all-round fine show! Spacey! Groovy!

    Playlist:
    • Freddie Hubbard - First light
    • Mikrokolektyw - Gift
    • Rare Air - Mammoth no arms
    • Brian Charette - Why'd you have to go and lie to me boy
    • Carson Tworow and David Lavoie - Cypress
    • Thumbscrew - Somewhat agree
    • Amnesiac Quartet - Bloom
    • Jerry Kalaf - Perspectives
    • Anthony Braxton Septet - Composition no. 348 part 7
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 10, 2025
    A big tune starts this week: Out-bloody-rageous! And then we finish up in hell.

    Playlist:
    • Soft Machine - Out-bloody-rageous
    • Brodie West Quintet - Inhabit I
    • Ariane Racicot - Dancing with fire
    • Alvin Queen - JazzCup Cafe blues
    • Jazz Sabbath - Into the void
    • Nicole McCabe - Inner critic
    • Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell
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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.…