September 16, 2024

The theme of this edition of Breaking The Tethers was akin to that for the previous week (September 9), with one slight difference. Last week, it was "no new music". This week it was "almost no new music". I played only one new release, "Outer spaceways incorporated", by the Kronos Quartet & Friends (which is a great track). Everything else was old, but good old stuff (especially "Portrait of Louisiana" by the William Parker Orchestra - Duke Ellington meets free jazz!). You can check it out here.

Thanks.

Andrew

September 9, 2024

Most of the time, release date-wise, Breaking The Tethers shows are made up of new and old music. Every now and again, I do a program where everything played is newly-released or newly re-released. This week, I did the reverse; all the tracks are old, with no new items played. This is definitely a rare thing, even less common than the "all-new" shows, but still fun to do here and there. 

Fave track this week: "Leo" by John Coltrane, recorded at his last appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966.

I also had a request, the first in a while, for something by Oscar Peterson. I played "The smudge" from the album Eloquence.

This program is available for listening pleasure at shorturl.at/axfq0

Thanks.

Andrew

September 23, 2024

Lots of music - 10 tracks - presented this week. I would say that the main feature here was the new music, most of which was Canadian. I hadn’t played too much newly released stuff in the last few weeks so it was nice to be able to do that (not that I didn’t have new music on hand but…). Listen to things here.

Thanks.

Andrew

September 30, 2024

A lighter show, in a sense, today. All interesting tracks with a fair amount of variation between them, just nothing too wild (wild stuff often appears in a BTT program). One track to note: I had totally forgotten I had some music by UK bassist, composer, and bandleader, Graham Collier. But, on rediscovery, I was very glad to play one of his works (the track "Darius: part one") in this program. 

This will take you to the recording of the show. 

Thanks.

Andrew

October 7, 2024

This was a mellower show of sorts though there were appropriate injections of weirdness here and there. Perhaps the most interesting part was that I managed to fit in 10 tracks; normally, it's a few less. And it was 10 not-too-short tracks, not some short stuff. Anyway, you can listen to the program here.

Thanks.

Andrew

October 14, 2024

This was Thanksgiving Day in Canada (and Columbus Day in the US, though I didn't mention this on air). I picked a nice mix of tunes, I think, to celebrate Turkey Day. Well, I didn't really select them with that day in mind but it was a good group of tracks. Here are three faves:

"Claude Bolling suite for cello and jazz piano trio 6: cello fan" by Sahara Von Hattenberger - A classical meets jazz kinda thing that swings and has a solid structure.

"Interception" by the Dave Holland Quartet - From one of my favourite jazz albums, Conference of the birds. Definitely avant-garde but also quite accessible in a way.

"Rapacious" by Matt Mitchell - An out-there take on the jazz piano trio. Appropriately titled.

Here's where you can listen to this show: shorturl.at/yq8qM

Join me for the next edition of Breaking The Tethers on Monday, October 21, at cjsw.com or 90.9 FM, from 10 to 11 am MT. This will be a notable program in that it
will be the 2024 CJSW Funding Drive show for Breaking The Tethers! More on this in another post soon!

Thanks.

Andrew