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Overlooked: Overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational, and other fringe music
Rob Saffer. Photo courtesy Rob Saffer. (Jun 19, 2019)
Big Majestic, Ellen Reid, 2024 New Amsterdam Records. (Nov 12, 2024)
Overlooked: Bird in Kansas City plus New Jazz. Charlie 'Bird' Parker in Kansas City, Verve Records/UMG, 2024 (Oct 22, 2024)
Overlooked: Points of Departure, Part 3 (Disease & Accidents). Forbes.com/Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee, October 4, 2024 (Oct 08, 2024)
Overlooked: More Newly Released Music. Portrait of Arnold Schoenberg, by Egon Schiele, 1917. (Sep 24, 2024)
Overlooked: New Releases - Short & Spiky. Thrill Jockey, 2024 (Sep 10, 2024)
Diva of Deva Loka - Kadef Agbi. Artwork by Ala Dehghan, courtesy of Akuphone Recordings (Aug 27, 2024)
Sam Rivers/Joe Daley, Studio Rivbea, 1976. Studio Rivbea, NYC, 1976 (Aug 13, 2024)
Overlooked: Newly Released Jazz. Design by Travassos | Photos by Tiago Fezas Vital - Clean Feed Records 2024 (Jul 23, 2024)
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Overlooked: Points of Departure, Part 3 (Disease). Image credit: Forbes.com/RYAN HODGSON-RIGSBEE (Jul 09, 2024)
clair rousay. Photography by Zoe Donahoe and Adam Sputh, Thrill Jockey Records, June 18, 2024 (Jun 25, 2024)
Overlooked: More Newly-Released Music. Photography by Zoe Donahoe and Adam Sputh (Jun 25, 2024)
Rose City Band album cover.. Image from Thrill Jockey Records. (Jul 11, 2023)
Baskot Lel Baltageyya album cover.. From Akuphone. (Jun 13, 2023)
Big Ears Festival logo.. Big Ears Festival logo. (Apr 25, 2023)
Giant Brain image.. Image from Smallstone Recordings, 2023 (Apr 11, 2023)
The Beat of the Earth (1967). From Rob Saffer. (Jul 26, 2022)
Balungan / Kudu Bisa Kudu. From Rob Saffer. (Jun 28, 2022)
Iannis Xenakis. From Rob Saffer. (May 24, 2022)
David Friend and Jerome Begin, Post- (New Amsterdam Records). From Rob Saffer. (May 10, 2022)
Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s. From Rob Saffer. (Apr 26, 2022)
Overlooked: 20220322. From Rob Saffer. (Mar 22, 2022)
Ornette Coleman. From Rob Saffer. (Mar 08, 2022)
African Piano. From Rob Saffer. (Feb 08, 2022)
Jazz Philadelphia logo. From jazzphiladelphia.org (Jul 13, 2021)
Essential Aliens (2021) by Helvetia. From helvetiamusic.bandcamp.com. (Jun 22, 2021)
Thumbscrew by The Anthony Braxton Project. From Rob Saffer. (Aug 11, 2020)
Overlooked: Last Licks of 2019. From Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records. (Jan 28, 2020)
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After the news at noon, “Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational, and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experiments, a mix of familiar to rare, classic to weird. Live from the shadow of Overlook Mountain in Ulster County.
Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation. While living in Brooklyn for 25 years, he served on advisory boards for Celebrate Brooklyn and Symphony Space. He also curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band.