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Breaking The Tethers

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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    Breaking The Tethers - Episode June 22, 2026

    Day 2 of the 20th anniversary celebration for Breaking The Tethers!Playlist: Soft Machine - Out-bloody-rageousKronos Quartet and Friends - Daddy's gonna tell you no lieSun Ra - DisciplinePharoah Sanders - Village of the pharoahs pt. 3Alien Ensemble - Skeleton danceReturn To Forever - Captain MarvelLee Morgan - The gigolo

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    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 railroadMatthew Shipp - Orbit 2Paul Motian Band - Mumbo jumboAtlantis Jazz Ensemble - Pillars of HerculesStan Tracey Quartet - Starless and bible blackEd Palermo Big Band - MoggioCarla Bley, Paolo Frescu - Five bananaLarry Willis - Inner crisisMagnus 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 #1Sharon Minemoto - No way outIvo Perelman and Damon Smith - NineAmrita - MetamorphosisThe Plastic Waste Band - Inner gimbalVirginia MacDonald - Last call at Dimitri'sTumbao Bravo with Paul Vornhagen - Firefly mamboJimmy 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 peaceBowline Jazz - The preacherBowline Jazz - Choose happyBowline Jazz - DoodlinBowline Jazz - Once more for good measureChris Hazelton - Paris of the plainsJames 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 3Asher Gamedze - Following upThe Plastic Waste Band - North of the North PoleIvo Perelman and Damon Smith - OneMary Halvorson Trio - Screw's loose (no. 8)Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith - ThreeEmie R Roussel Trio - Klara färdiga gaIvo Perelman and Damon Smith - TwoDavid Sánchez - Bioho en el MagdalenaMiles Davis - Footprints

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    Breaking The Tethers - Episode May 18, 2026

    New follows old this week.Playlist: Phil Miller, In Cahoots - Black catDavid Occhipinti - Who's your Dada?JazzLab Orchestra - Outer chamberDavid Sánchez - Benkos liberatadorAlexis Martin Ensemble - La dune du PilatShunzo Ohno - Going homeRémi 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 - FiveWolfgang Seligo - Little noteJimmy Farace - Three headed dragonLukas Ligeti - Uncommon notionThe Cosmocopians - ZapSoft Machine - TurmoilSquarepusher - UplandsKalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - HexagonThe 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 blissRémi Bolduc - Rhythm delightJoyful Talk - Stop freaking out!Paul Keller Orchestra - Pop tuneMike Clement - Chad bopOrhan Demir-Neil Swainson - NileMike Clark, Delbert Bump - Deep in the inner city

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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 - SaharaJanel Leppin - The brink is homeAtlantis Jazz Ensemble - DamoclesAlbert Marquès & Rachel Therrien - SolarArvind Ramdas - Asiatic raesPaul 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 bluesArt Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Quick trickSteve Husted and Friends - When we were youngRémi Bolduc - The lickingNick Fraser - There are other waysAmalie Dahl’s Dafnie's EXTENDED - drifting_turningHendrik Meurkens - Herb's samba

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    Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 6, 2026

    2/3 new, 1/3 oldPlaylist: Jean-Luc Ponty - Music for electric violin and low budget orchestraTom Waits - AliceAtlantis Jazz Ensemble - Spirits unseenAlbert Marquès & Rachel Therrien - Abraham Lincoln BrigadeAlexander Claffy - Hard time killing floor bluesTempête Solaire - Kronos

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    Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 30, 2026

    3/4 new, 1/4 oldPlaylist: Lee Morgan - Search for the new landMark Tonelli - Praca jardim finottiArvind Ramdas - All for noneAmalie Dahl’s Dafnie's EXTENDED - LongingPat Bianchi - Wise one

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    Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 23, 2026

    For the first time in a while, all "new" music today!Playlist: Toshiyuki Tsuchitori and Ryuichi Sakamoto - 綾 (Aya)Dave Stryker - Van Gelder's placeCorcoran Holt - FreeTriple Blind - Chaotic eyesGéraldine Eguiluz, Michel F Côté - La montana y el aguaHugo Blouin - Un art du tempsCyger & Butterworth - Clunky

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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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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...

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