Overlooked: Guitarists on ECM: Feb 24, 2026

Since 1969, Manfred Eicher’s ECM record label has issued nearly two thousand recordings; most focus on piano or woodwinds; only some feature guitar. Pre-recorded from Overlook Mountain, this program...

Overlooked: Guitarists on ECM: Feb 24, 2026

Since 1969, Manfred Eicher’s ECM record label has issued nearly two thousand recordings; most focus on piano or woodwinds; only some feature guitar. Pre-recorded from Overlook Mountain, this program...

Overlooked: Rob Saffer and Ben LaMar Gay: Feb 17, 2026

Tune in for an interview between Rob Saffer, host of WGXC's Overlooked, and Ben LaMar Gay ahead of the artist's upcoming performance as part of PS21's winter festival The Dark. Ben LaMar Gay will perf...

Overlooked: First New Releases of 2026: Feb 10, 2026

The first show of 2026 will feature two-dozen newly released pieces of music. The program will be wide ranging, from Okinawan folk music from the early 20th century and a Beethoven late sonata to trad...

Overlooked: Two Fats, Two Chicks and a Dodo: The Jazz Nickname Project (Part 1): Jan 27, 2026

This pre-recorded broadcast from Overlooked Mountain will be the first installment in a multipart series focused on music by musicians with creative and fanciful nicknames. Along the way, we’ll hear f...

Overlooked: Two Fats, Two Chicks and a Dodo: The Jazz Nickname Project (Part 1): Jan 27, 2026

This pre-recorded broadcast from Overlooked Mountain will be the first installment in a multipart series focused on music by musicians with creative and fanciful nicknames. Along the way, we’ll hear f...

Overlooked: Overlooked: Jan 17, 2026

Underheard and Overlooked Music - hosted by Rob Saffer

Overlooked: Last Licks of 2025: Jan 13, 2026

There’s never enough time to play choice tracks during the year they’re recorded; the queue is always longer than “Overlooked” air-time especially since half the shows are thematic, not new releases....

Overlooked: Jazz That's A Century Old: Dec 23, 2025

As we near the end of 2025, this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will celebrate jazz that recorded in 1925, one century ago. Among the earliest jazz compositions on record, each of the 35 tunes...

Overlooked: Newly Released Strings, Vocals and Percussion: Dec 09, 2025

In the last newly released music show of 2025, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will play music emphasizing stringed instruments, vocalizing, and percussion. The string section will vary from Rwandan vo...

Overlooked: The Second Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Relentless & Ecstatic Music (rebroadcast of November 25, 2025): Nov 27, 2025

For nine years, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has presented the “Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” as a public service to get his listeners to spend holiday time with their hopef...

The Second Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Relentless & Ecstatic Music: Nov 25, 2025

For nine years, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has presented the “Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” as a public service to get his listeners to spend holiday time with their hopef...

Overlooked: Newly Released Jazz: Nov 11, 2025

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will atypically focus on a single genre: newly released jazz. Host Rob Saffer will play new jazz that spans the gamut from solos to large ensembles, traditio...

Overlooked: The Long and Short of Newly Released Music: Oct 28, 2025

This installment of “Overlooked” will feature all newly released music alternating between short, efficient tunes and longer more exploratory ones. The short tunes, such as a preacher’s 23-second rhy...

Overlooked: Even More New Releases (10th Anniversary Show!): Oct 14, 2025

“Overlooked” first hit WGXC's airwaves on October 22, 2015 with a show called “Couplets & Connections.” In a nod to that first show, host Rob Saffer will play newly released music from all corners...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Sep 23, 2025

On what would have been John Coltrane’s 99th birthday, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will kick off this showcase of newly released music with a cover of Trane’s “Lonnie’s Lament.” It will be followed b...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Sep 23, 2025

On what would have been John Coltrane’s 99th birthday, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will kick off this showcase of newly released music with a cover of Trane’s “Lonnie’s Lament.” It will be followed b...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Sep 09, 2025

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 25 newly released pieces that span the gamut: from modern chamber music and art punk to Afro-Futurist mashups and French-fried Canterbury improv...

Overlooked: Bird & Prez in Blue: Aug 26, 2025

In this broadcast from Overlook Mountain, host Rob Saffer will celebrate the upcoming birthdays of Lester “Prez” Young (August 27) and Charlie “Bird” Parker (August 29) by showcasing the bluesier aspe...

Overlooked: Bird & Prez in Blue: Aug 26, 2025

In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, host Rob Saffer will celebrate the upcoming birthdays of Lester “Prez” Young (August 27) and Charlie “Bird” Parker (August 29) by showcasing the bluesier...

Overlooked: Chu Berry: Aug 12, 2025

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature music played by overlooked tenor saxophonist, Leon “Chu” Berry. He was one of the most in-demand tenor men of the 1930s, when he was featured i...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Jul 22, 2025

This midsummer live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature newly released music, including lots of dissonant jazz and guitars, cellos in various formats, ornithological inspirations, a couple o...

Overlooked: TR@90: Jul 08, 2025

In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will all-too-briefly survey the prolific and wide-ranging career of composer and multi-instrumentalist Terry Riley, who turn...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Pledge Drive Edition: Jun 24, 2025

During this WGXC pledge drive, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will treat listeners to a wide variety of newly released music, including noisy rock, recently discovered jazz, several duets, a piano block...

Overlooked: Young Composers from Bard 2025: Jun 10, 2025

In this special edition of WGXC’s “Overlooked,” listeners will be treated to performances of works by young composers from Bard College. With help from Bard College Conservatory of Music’s Associate D...

Overlooked: New Releases Focused on Space & Place: May 27, 2025

In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, host Rob Saffer will play a variety of newly released music - rock, jazz, international and ambient - that emphasizes space and place. Some of the record...

Overlooked: Big Ears 12 (Part Two): May 13, 2025

Each year at the end of March, Knoxville, Tennessee is taken over by hundreds of musicians from every corner of the world for the Big Ears Festival, widely considered the most diverse music festival i...

Overlooked: Big Ears 12 (Part Two): May 13, 2025

Each year at the end of March, Knoxville, Tennessee is taken over by hundreds of musicians from every corner of the world for the Big Ears Festival, widely considered the most diverse music festival i...

Overlooked: Big Ears 12 (Part One): Apr 22, 2025

Each year at the end of March, Knoxville, Tennessee is taken over by hundreds of musicians from every corner of the world for the Big Ears Festival, widely considered the most diverse music festival i...

Overlooked: Jazz Elders: Then & Now: Apr 08, 2025

After their multipart series, Points of Departure, which focused on jazz musicians who died young, “Overlooked" host Rob Saffer and contributor Marc Epstein flipped the script and have put together a...

Overlooked: Jazz Elders: Then & Now: Apr 08, 2025

After their multipart series, Points of Departure, which focused on jazz musicians who died young, “Overlooked" host Rob Saffer and contributor Marc Epstein flipped the script and have put together a...

Overlooked: Even More Newly Released Music: Mar 25, 2025

En route to Knoxville, TN for the Big Ears Festival, in this pre-recorded program “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will continue to share overlooked and under-heard new music of all sorts, from all corner...

Overlooked: Even More Newly Released Music: Mar 25, 2025

En route to the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, in this pre-recorded broadcast from Overlook Mountain “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will continue to share overlooked and under-heard new music of al...

Overlooked: Even More New Releases: Mar 11, 2025

There’s been a flurry of both snow and music up on Overlook Mountain and “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has been using snow days to listen to new music of all sorts, compiling the best for three new rel...

Overlooked: More Newly Released Music: Feb 25, 2025

In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will spin 20 newly released tracks spanning a variety of styles: international, jazz both in and out, contemporary classica...

Overlooked: First New Releases of 2025: Feb 11, 2025

In most years, very little new music gets released in December and January, so it takes some time for “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer to gather enough new music worthy for listeners’ ears. Now, there’s...

Overlooked: Points of Departure, Part 5 (Accidents, Murder, Mystery & Mayhem - Series Finale): Jan 28, 2025

This broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the fifth and final in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musicians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths, whether due...

Overlooked: Points of Departure, Part 5 (Accidents, Murder, Mystery & Mayhem - Series Finale): Jan 28, 2025

This broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the fifth and final in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musicians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths, whether due...

Overlooked: Last Licks of 2024: Jan 14, 2025

There’s never enough time to play choice tracks during the year they’re recorded; the queue is always longer than “Overlooked” air-time. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 19 tast...

Overlooked: Happy Chrismukkah: Dec 24, 2024

It’s rare when Christmas and Hanukkah share the same Eve but that’s what’s happening in 2024. In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will devote the first half of...

Overlooked: Years End New Releases: Dec 10, 2024

As 2025 looms on the horizon, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer is eager to share what’s left of worthy 2024 new releases: in this case mostly jazz and world music. The early December cornucopia includes c...

Overlooked: The First Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Relentless & Ecstatic Music: Nov 28, 2024

For nine years, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has presented the “Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” as a public service to get his listeners to spend holiday time with their hopef...

Overlooked: The First Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Relentless & Ecstatic Music: Nov 26, 2024

For nine years, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has presented the “Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” as a public service to get his listeners to spend holiday time with their hopef...

Overlooked: Mostly New Music: Nov 12, 2024

In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will primarily highlight contemporary, classically-inspired tunes that are often known as "New Music." Through compositions...

Overlooked: Bird in Kansas City plus New Jazz (re-air of October 22, 2024): Oct 25, 2024

It’s not every day that new recordings by Charlie Parker are unearthed. It’s even rarer when they’re private recordings and not well-traveled bootlegs. Rarer still when they’re recorded in Bird’s hom...

Overlooked: Bird in Kansas City plus New Jazz: Oct 22, 2024

It’s not every day that new recordings by Charlie Parker are unearthed. It’s even rarer when they’re private recordings and not well-traveled bootlegs. Rarer still when they’re recorded in Bird’s hom...

Overlooked: Points of Departure, Part 4 (Disease & Accidents): Oct 08, 2024

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the fourth in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musicians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths, whether due to d...

Overlooked: More Newly Released Music: Sep 24, 2024

After a string of thematic shows focused on The Wildflowers Sessions, jazz musicians who died too young, and music that’s relentless and ecstatic, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer is dedicating the month...

Overlooked: More Newly Released Music: Sep 24, 2024

After a string of thematic shows focused on The Wildflowers Sessions, jazz musicians who died too young, and music that’s relentless and ecstatic, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer is dedicating the month...

Overlooked: New Releases - Short & Spiky: Sep 10, 2024

The most recent installment of “Overlooked” focused on freely flowing relentless and ecstatic music that featured nine long tracks, many between 10 and 20 minutes long. This live broadcast from Overl...