https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20190128/
This was another "all-new" edition of Breaking The Tethers, the last such show for a while. For the next program, on Monday, February 4 (10-11 am MT, 90.9 FM or cjsw.com), I'll go back to the more usual format of BTT and play a mix of old and new material. Anyway, here's a few notes from this week's program:
*I fit in two John Coltrane pieces, "Alabama" and "Your lady", which is always a good thing. Both originally appeared on Coltrane's Live at Birdland release but were recently re-released as part of the 1963: new directions package.
*I very much liked the cover of the Beatles' "Julia" by GADAU, especially the distinctive vocals.
*It was kind of "difficult word day" on Breaking The Tethers. Two alone could have tripped me up, "Chemiluminescence" (by Adam Hopkins) and "Quintessence" (by Jazzlab Orchestra), but I managed to get them out clean, more than once. Sometimes, it's the simple (or simpler) words that twist my tongue in knots.
Andrew
Monday, January 28, 2019
Monday, January 21, 2019
January 21, 2019
https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20190121/
This was a mellower show than usual or, at least, it had a less avant/out there vibe than usual. Heck, it even had a vocal track ("Never let it go" by Andrea Superstein), a somewhat rare thing for BTT. Maybe the main feature of the program was the beginning and end-of-show Brad Mehldau bookends.
Oh, also, it was an "all-new" show. Next week's edition will be the same. I plan to head back to playing material from a variety of periods in February.
On the subject of next week, Breaking The Tethers will be back on air on Monday, January 28, 10-11 am MT, 90.9 FM or cjsw.com. Please join me. Everyone is welcome!
Andrew
This was a mellower show than usual or, at least, it had a less avant/out there vibe than usual. Heck, it even had a vocal track ("Never let it go" by Andrea Superstein), a somewhat rare thing for BTT. Maybe the main feature of the program was the beginning and end-of-show Brad Mehldau bookends.
Oh, also, it was an "all-new" show. Next week's edition will be the same. I plan to head back to playing material from a variety of periods in February.
On the subject of next week, Breaking The Tethers will be back on air on Monday, January 28, 10-11 am MT, 90.9 FM or cjsw.com. Please join me. Everyone is welcome!
Andrew
Sunday, January 20, 2019
December 10, 2018
https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20181210
There was definitely some nifty music played in the Dec. 10 BTT episode ("How to walk in freedom" by Marc Ribot & company; I love the last section of this song) but the most interesting point for me is that I played 12 tracks in an hour. This is hard to do when playing jazz; normally, I fit in somewhere around nine pieces of music in 60 minutes. I'm not sure if 12 is the record but it's up there.
Andrew
There was definitely some nifty music played in the Dec. 10 BTT episode ("How to walk in freedom" by Marc Ribot & company; I love the last section of this song) but the most interesting point for me is that I played 12 tracks in an hour. This is hard to do when playing jazz; normally, I fit in somewhere around nine pieces of music in 60 minutes. I'm not sure if 12 is the record but it's up there.
Andrew
December 3, 2018
https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20181203
I dug everything played on this program though, looking back, four tracks stand out:
"Delice karma/Karmic delights" by Forgas Band Phenomena from L'oreille electrique - Maybe my favourite song from my favourite 2018 release.
"Probability wave #1/HUP" by The Uncertainty Principle from Live at the Rex - Physics in jazz, with a discussion of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
"A letter to mom" by The Cosmic Twins from The waterbearers - A discovery from 1974. A great drums and piano piece.
"El Barrio" by Joe Henderson from Inner urge - I've been listening to a fair amount of Joe Henderson recently. Always good.
Andrew
I dug everything played on this program though, looking back, four tracks stand out:
"Delice karma/Karmic delights" by Forgas Band Phenomena from L'oreille electrique - Maybe my favourite song from my favourite 2018 release.
"Probability wave #1/HUP" by The Uncertainty Principle from Live at the Rex - Physics in jazz, with a discussion of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
"A letter to mom" by The Cosmic Twins from The waterbearers - A discovery from 1974. A great drums and piano piece.
"El Barrio" by Joe Henderson from Inner urge - I've been listening to a fair amount of Joe Henderson recently. Always good.
Andrew
November 19, 2018
https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20181119
John Coltrane at the beginning, Alice Coltrane at the end, some interesting stuff in the middle. What's more to say? 😀
Andrew
John Coltrane at the beginning, Alice Coltrane at the end, some interesting stuff in the middle. What's more to say? 😀
Andrew
Saturday, January 19, 2019
November 12, 2018
https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20181112
A bit of everything in this show; old and new, different styles, etc. Kind of a typical Breaking The Tethers episode. The surprise for me was how much I liked the Zara McFarlane song ("Woman in the olive groves"). I'm not the biggest fan of vocal jazz, to say the least, but I'd forgotten that Zara is step different and a step better (or more) than the usual vocal jazz fare.
Andrew
PS This would have been my dad's 82nd birthday.
A bit of everything in this show; old and new, different styles, etc. Kind of a typical Breaking The Tethers episode. The surprise for me was how much I liked the Zara McFarlane song ("Woman in the olive groves"). I'm not the biggest fan of vocal jazz, to say the least, but I'd forgotten that Zara is step different and a step better (or more) than the usual vocal jazz fare.
Andrew
PS This would have been my dad's 82nd birthday.
Friday, January 18, 2019
November 5, 2018
https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20181105
This was fun show to do (aren't they all?!) and one that fell together very well. I also put a fair amount of time into the construction of this one (not that I slack off normally!), which may explain why it worked out so good. Here's a few things of note:
*I managed to fit in the complete "As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls" by Metheny and Mays, from the album of the same name. I'd played Brian Baggett's (shorter) version of this piece the week before so it seemed appropriate to feature the original as well (I'm not sure I had played the original before... maybe a decade ago?)
*There were two versions of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" on the show, bookmarking a long set of tunes. There are a surprising and, I think, increasing number of jazz covers of this song out there.
*In the middle of the long set, I featured the revitalized Soft Machine playing their version, in two sections, of the first part of the opus from the Third LP, "Out-bloody-rageous". One of my all-time fave tunes. And from a very good new record, Hidden details. Can't play too much Soft Machine (well, maybe you can... maybe I do?)
Andrew
This was fun show to do (aren't they all?!) and one that fell together very well. I also put a fair amount of time into the construction of this one (not that I slack off normally!), which may explain why it worked out so good. Here's a few things of note:
*I managed to fit in the complete "As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls" by Metheny and Mays, from the album of the same name. I'd played Brian Baggett's (shorter) version of this piece the week before so it seemed appropriate to feature the original as well (I'm not sure I had played the original before... maybe a decade ago?)
*There were two versions of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" on the show, bookmarking a long set of tunes. There are a surprising and, I think, increasing number of jazz covers of this song out there.
*In the middle of the long set, I featured the revitalized Soft Machine playing their version, in two sections, of the first part of the opus from the Third LP, "Out-bloody-rageous". One of my all-time fave tunes. And from a very good new record, Hidden details. Can't play too much Soft Machine (well, maybe you can... maybe I do?)
Andrew
January 7, 2019
https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20190107
For Breaking The Tethers, 2019 started with a "best of 2018" program. I picked 10 jazz (more or less) records that came out in 2018 and that reached out and grabbed me. From each of these, I played one track; some of these had been played before on BTT, others not. In no particular order, the records are:
Chip Wickham - Shamal wind
Forgas Band Phenomena - L'oreille electrique
Various - The thousand incarnations of the rose: American primitive guitar & and banjo (1963-1974)
John Coltrane - Both directions at once: the lost album
Marc Ribot - Songs of resistance, 1942-2018
Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The final tour: the bootleg series, vol. 6
The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, constellations
Soft Machine - Hidden details
Sons of Kemet -Your queen is a reptile
Steve Tibbets - Steve Tibbets
A caveat: I missed some good stuff, I know. There was loads of good music released last year and this is just a small representative sample. If I was to compile this list today, I might make some different choices (or I might not). I also limited my choices to recordings that I'd heard and heard in full. No offence intended to anyone left off this list.
Andrew
For Breaking The Tethers, 2019 started with a "best of 2018" program. I picked 10 jazz (more or less) records that came out in 2018 and that reached out and grabbed me. From each of these, I played one track; some of these had been played before on BTT, others not. In no particular order, the records are:
Chip Wickham - Shamal wind
Forgas Band Phenomena - L'oreille electrique
Various - The thousand incarnations of the rose: American primitive guitar & and banjo (1963-1974)
John Coltrane - Both directions at once: the lost album
Marc Ribot - Songs of resistance, 1942-2018
Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The final tour: the bootleg series, vol. 6
The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, constellations
Soft Machine - Hidden details
Sons of Kemet -Your queen is a reptile
Steve Tibbets - Steve Tibbets
A caveat: I missed some good stuff, I know. There was loads of good music released last year and this is just a small representative sample. If I was to compile this list today, I might make some different choices (or I might not). I also limited my choices to recordings that I'd heard and heard in full. No offence intended to anyone left off this list.
Andrew
January 14, 2019
https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20190114/
This was the first "regular" edition of Breaking The Tethers for 2019 (the January 7 program was a "best of 2018" show). Well, maybe not that regular. I planned to do an "all-new" show regardless but I figured I would make it an "all-Canadian, all-new" show, something I don't think I've ever done. I believe I've had a few all-Canadian programs and I've done many all-new editions of BTT but I don't think I've actually put the two together before. Anyway, I think it worked well, nicely showcasing 10 recent Canadian jazz(-ish) tunes (including two tracks from the just-released Musicworks compilation, #132). Fave title from this week: "Squish it" by Lina Allemano (who I mistakenly called Lisa; my apologies).
Next week's program is going to be another "all-new" show. I'm undecided at this point but I might even do another "all-Canadian, all-new" thing... we'll see... At any rate, please join me on Monday, January 21, 10-11 am MT, 90.9 FM, cjsw.com.
As always, thanks for listening!
Andrew
This was the first "regular" edition of Breaking The Tethers for 2019 (the January 7 program was a "best of 2018" show). Well, maybe not that regular. I planned to do an "all-new" show regardless but I figured I would make it an "all-Canadian, all-new" show, something I don't think I've ever done. I believe I've had a few all-Canadian programs and I've done many all-new editions of BTT but I don't think I've actually put the two together before. Anyway, I think it worked well, nicely showcasing 10 recent Canadian jazz(-ish) tunes (including two tracks from the just-released Musicworks compilation, #132). Fave title from this week: "Squish it" by Lina Allemano (who I mistakenly called Lisa; my apologies).
Next week's program is going to be another "all-new" show. I'm undecided at this point but I might even do another "all-Canadian, all-new" thing... we'll see... At any rate, please join me on Monday, January 21, 10-11 am MT, 90.9 FM, cjsw.com.
As always, thanks for listening!
Andrew
Friday, January 4, 2019
October 29, 2018
https://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20181029
I realized I'm now over two months behind in postings about Breaking The Tethers episodes. I am now attempting to rectify this situation. My apologies for slacking off so badly. It won't happen again. Really. Honest.
Anyway, click on the link above to go to the tracklist and podcast for the Oct. 29 show, which was a good, solid program with new (mostly) and older music, in several styles. Enough said.
Andrew
I realized I'm now over two months behind in postings about Breaking The Tethers episodes. I am now attempting to rectify this situation. My apologies for slacking off so badly. It won't happen again. Really. Honest.
Anyway, click on the link above to go to the tracklist and podcast for the Oct. 29 show, which was a good, solid program with new (mostly) and older music, in several styles. Enough said.
Andrew
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