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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. Breaking The Tethers sends out tentacles to experimental, folk, rock, world, and odd stuff that doesn’t have a label. Presented to you as a Monday morning sound experience. Suggestions, requests, and comments are always welcome.

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Episodes

Breaking The Tethers - Episode July 6, 2026 06.07.2026

Back to a "regular" episode of Breaking The Tethers, featuring an interview with Christophe from the band Greenhouse Ensemble. Playlist: Valerie Lacombe - I found a friend here Greenhouse Ensemble - Variations sur une turlute The Cosmic Twins - Letter to Mom Mandy Faye - Travelling Pearl & Dean - Asteroid (Pearl & Dean theme) Seamus Blake - Mean greens Ensemble Infini - Black hole Girma Woldemicha...

Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 29, 2026 29.06.2026

Day 3 of the 20th anniversary celebration for Breaking The Tethers! Playlist: Alice Coltrane - A love supreme Wes Montgomery - In and out Jaki Byard - Garr Food - Astral Ben Allison & Man Size Safe - Four folk songs The Aaron Keele Contingent - What difference does it make Martin, Medeski, and Wood - God fire Sonny Rollins - Nommo

Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 22, 2026 22.06.2026

Day 2 of the 20th anniversary celebration for Breaking The Tethers! Playlist: Soft Machine - Out-bloody-rageous Kronos Quartet and Friends - Daddy's gonna tell you no lie Sun Ra - Discipline Pharoah Sanders - Village of the pharoahs pt. 3 Alien Ensemble - Skeleton dance Return To Forever - Captain Marvel Lee Morgan - The gigolo

Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 15, 2026 15.06.2026

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...

Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 8, 2026 08.06.2026

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

Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 1, 2026 01.06.2026

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