This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will kick off with a tribute to four recently deceased jazz masters: Abdullah Ibrahim; Gunter Hampel; James Blood Ulmer; and Sonny Rollins. That will be followed by 19 pieces of newly released music, including a proggy version of Bach’s Goldberg canons, lots and lots of microtones, modern classical, modern jazz, jazz/classical blends, noisy guitar, bass clarinet doom, and even a newly discovered woodwind sextet composed by Eric Dolphy. 

Playlist: 

Prelude: Bra Joe from Kilamanjaro - Abdullah Ibrahim

Theme: Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

Layout - James Blood Ulmer

Loughin to Keep from Crying - Gunter Hampel

Selby That Eternal Spirit is the Only Reality - Abdullah Ibrahim

Oleo - Sonny Rollins

Bach Artillery 2 - Bach Artillerie 

Nocturne Vulgaire - Upturned Cup

Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores, iii. Central Park Microbial (Wianko) - Jupiter Quartet

utopian micronation - Phillip Golub

Mimic - Nick Fraser

Oresund Bridge - Yelena Eckemoff

Pickup - Tip Toe Loops

Fabienk - Angine de Poitrine

OneTwoThreeFour Body Problem - Poly-Math

After the Last Sky - Horse Lords

Last Summer - Amiture 

A Flashing on Plain Glass - Lesotho

Jazz is Resistance - Janel Leppin/Ensemble Volcanic Ash

Foundation of Tonality - William Hooker, John King

he was always so precise - Fugue State

Woodwind Sextet, Movt. 2 (Dolphy) - Jeff Lederer

Ayaruna - Maria Grand

Black Box Extraction - Caleb Wheeler Curtis

To Rise in Arms - Emily Beisel 

“Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and underplayed music of all varieties: jazz, improvisational, international, and other fringe music, ancient to future, familiar to rare, classic to weird. Broadcast live from Overlook Mountain in Ulster County, “Overlooked” offers programs focused solely on newly released music along with others that focus on specific musical themes or history.

Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation and Creative Music Studio. While living in Brooklyn for 25 years, he served on advisory boards for Celebrate Brooklyn! and Symphony Space. He also co-curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue. Rob is also a judge for the annual Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll.