July 17, 2023

Gonna note three items about this BTT show (I could make many more, of course, but I'll stick with three, for brevity's sake 😁):

*I really dug the starting tune, the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio's version of Curtis Mayfield's "Move on up". It's a fairly well covered song but the Delvon Lamarr group do it in a particularly hard and funky style. Move on up and dance!

*I haven't played Miles Davis in a while (maybe quite a while) so I rectified that situation by playing some Miles Davis, specifically "Lonely fire". "Lonely fire" comes off the odds and ends album released in 1974, Big fun. 

*A new Frank Zappa album has recently been released, Funky nothingness, which documents 1970 recordings made just post-Hot rats. There's some jazzy stuff on this record so I figured it would be appropriate to feature a track or two on Breaking The Tethers. This week, I played "Halos and arrows". I think I'll play a version of "Chunga's revenge" from Funky nothingness in a few weeks.

I'll be around for the next BTT episode, on Monday, July 24 (10 to 11 am MT, cjsw.com or 90.9 FM) and then I'll be gone for the July 31 program (more on this soon). I'll be back for the August 7 show.

Thanks.

Andrew

July 10, 2023

Mostly new material played this week with some older stuff tucked in. Some notes:

*On the July 3 program, I featured a fair amount of jazz-rock and fusion. I thought I’d make a connection to that program by starting off with some Return To Forever.

*The present-day line-up of Soft Machine put out a new album, Other voices, at the end of June. I picked it up, of course, and played a track today, a new version of the classic piece from Third, “Backwards” (it’s the latter section of “Slightly all the time” on Third).

*I’m not big on vocal jazz (to say the least, some would say) but I did play some today, a song called “Reverie” by Nicole Zuratis from her recent release, How love begins.

*Apart from Soft Machine, I managed to squeeze in some more Canterbury sound music, at the end of the show, “Waltz for Nobby” by Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowan. 

Listen here for the full show.

Next show: Monday, July 17, at the usual time, 10 to 11 am MT, at the usual place, cjsw.com or 90.9 FM.

Thanks.

Andrew

June 19, 2023

While there was no shortage of notable musical selections in this episode of BTT, perhaps the one that caught my ear the most was Jazz Sabbath’s version of the Black Sabbath classic “N.I.B.”. I knew there was a first Jazz Sabbath album, released in 2020, but I hadn’t heard about the second one, which came out in 2022. Anyway, I always love playing their stuff; it’s fun. Check out Jazz Sabbath and much more from this show here. 

Thanks.

Andrew

June 26, 2023

Apart from music, the top thing this week on Breaking The Tethers was a phone interview with Ed Durocher, the main man from Winnipeg's Apollo Suns. Many thanks to Ed for calling in and chatting. The Suns were part of the Jazz YYC Summer Festival that week. They've also played live on BTT twice (plus another time on CJSW, on a different show). I'm hoping they'll play live on BTT sometime soon again.

Music-wise, I played a couple of Apollo Suns tracks (of course!) and some other cool stuff, including the first Sun Ra track I've played in some time, "The conversation of J.P."

Thanks.

Andrew

July 3, 2023

We hit July, the summer, and the midway point of the year with a very jazz-rock feel (dare I say fusion?). For example, we had "Soft machine" by Uzva; "Situation" from the Jeff Beck group, recorded live; and "Tidal wave" by Sea Level. It was just missing some Return To Forever, which I might play next week 😆. Plenty of other non-jazz-rock/fusion tracks played today, though. I guess it was just a good, overall show. I'm fine with that! Go here to give this program a whirl.

Breaking The Tethers next appears live on Monday, July 10, at cjsw.com or 90.9 FM, from 10 to 11 am MT. Please join me then! Hope you can!

Thanks.

Andrew