May 27, 2023

A fine mix of new (mostly) and old tracks on this program, leaning out there but definitely not fully in that territory (e.g. I played the Mercer Hassy Orchestra’s version of Duke Ellington’s “Hot and bothered”, which was originally recorded in 1928). My favourite two songs this week were the Carl Zinsius Project’s cover of Carla Bley’s “Five banana” and “Unknown rivers” by Luke Stewart. Which were yours? Not sure yet? You can listen to the show here.

June comes in next week, with the first Breaking The Tethers program taking place on Monday, June 3, at cjsw.com or 90.9 FM, from 10 to 11 am MT. Please join me.

Thanks.

Andrew

May 20, 2024

Most of the tracks in this edition of Breaking The Tethers leaned, slightly or heavily, into the avant or out-there side of jazz.  I'm glad it came out this way; maybe I've been playing too much straight-ahead or mellow stuff recently? 😆 Actually, there were a couple of more straight-ahead pieces featured today, "Brass rail" by OVK3 and "Timing is everything" by Eric Alexander. But they still pushed the sonic envelope a bit e.g. Alexander's tenor sax solo in "Timing is everything" got kinda skronky. You can listen to the whole program, skronky or not, here. 

BTT in May comes to an end next week, on Monday, May 27. Join me for the show that day from 10 to 11 am MT at cjsw.com or 90.9 FM.

Thanks.

Andrew

May 13, 2024

This show was much like last week's episode. Great music was played (fave track: "Theme from electric surfboard" by Brother Jack McDuff) and the structure was the same. The first three pieces were all from the 1970s while the last three were all recent releases. Not that this was a bad thing (at all) but, next week, I think I'll spread out the old and the new. 

Speaking of next week, there'll be more Breaking The Tethers at the usual place and time, Monday, May 20, 10 to 11 am MT, cjsw.com or 90.9 FM.

Thanks.

Andrew

May 6, 2024

There was a sharp line between older and newer in this program. The first half hour or so was filled up with one piece, the longer (33 minute) version of "Circle in the round" by Miles Davis from 1967 (there's a shorter version that clocks in at 26 minutes). This is one of my fave jazz tracks; I haven't played it for at least several years so I figured it was time for an outing. Everything past this point in the show was newly released and mostly Canadian (and good). You check out this aural dichotomy here.

You can also check out the next edition of BTT, on Monday, May 13, at cjsw.com or 90.9 FM, from 10 to 11 am MT.

Thanks.

Andrew

April 29, 2024

I was absent for this edition of Breaking The Tethers (I had an all-day work thing) but Mickail Hendi was able to fill in for me. Mickail has sat in the BTT chair several times in the past and has always done a great job, which he also did this week. You can listen to the show here. Also dig the very interesting setlist.

I'm coming back for the April 6 program. I'm going to play a long Miles Davis tune. You can in take this and the other pieces of music I'll feature on the show from 10 to 11 am MT, cjsw.com or 90.9 FM.

Thanks.

Andrew

April 22, 2024

There was a nice mixed bag of sounds in this show, ranging from Sonny Sharrock ("Promises kept" from Ask the ages, one of my all-time faves) to Neil Young (yes, Neil being jazzy) to solo piano ("Tone" by Fumio Itabashi) to soul-jazz ("The stratosphere" by BK Trio) and much more. One interesting thing that happened was that, due to length, I was only going to play a few songs or so but I ended up playing 10, which is a lot for a one-hour jazz program (not that there's anything wrong with playing more music than planned). Anyway, you can listen to the 10 tracks plus my ramblings here.

Thanks.

Andrew