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Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Mar 10, 2026
In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, hos...
Overlooked: Rob Saffer and Amir ElSaffar: Mar 07, 2026
Tune in for an interview between Rob Saffer, host...
Overlooked: Guitarists on ECM: Feb 24, 2026
Since 1969, Manfred Eicher’s ECM record label has...
Overlooked: Rob Saffer and Ben LaMar Gay: Feb 17, 2026
Overlooked: First New Releases of 2026: Feb 10, 2026
The first show of 2026 will feature two-dozen newl...
Overlooked: Two Fats, Two Chicks and a Dodo: The Jazz Nickname Project (Part 1): Jan 27, 2026
This pre-recorded broadcast from Overlooked Mounta...
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Rob Saffer: Jun 19, 2019
The Gardens of Loss, Mike Johnson, Cuneiform Records, 2026: Apr 14, 2026
Ekstasis, Nicky Skopelitis, Axiom Records, 1993: Mar 24, 2026
Circle the Heart, Marty Ehrlich/Julius Hemphill, 2026 Relative Pitch Records: Mar 10, 2026
Ralph Towner, At First Light, (ECM, 2023): Feb 24, 2026
Another Intensity, Philip Blackburn, Neuma Records, 2026: Feb 10, 2026
"The Fabulous Nicknames of Jazz,” All About Jazz, March 31, 2020.: Jan 27, 2026
The Hard Machine, Trinary System, 2025 Cuneiform Records: Jan 13, 2026
Example of "acoustic" recording; funnel-like metal horns capture sound vibrations sent to a stylus that cut into a soft wax master, Library of Congress.: Dec 23, 2025
Dream Up, Tomas Fujiwara, Out of Your Head Records, 2025: Dec 09, 2025
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20260512: May 12, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
“Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and...
20260428: Apr 28, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
More Newly Released Music: Apr 14, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will fe...
Nicky Skopelitis: Mar 24, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
Little known to the world outside of Bill Laswell’...
Newly Released Music: Mar 10, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
Rob Saffer and Amir ElSaffar: Mar 07, 2026: 2:30 pm - 4pm
Guitarists on ECM: Feb 24, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
First New Releases of 2026: Feb 10, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
Two Fats, Two Chicks and a Dodo: The Jazz Nickname Project (Part 1): Jan 27, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
Last Licks of 2025: Jan 13, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
There’s never enough time to play choice tracks du...
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: 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...
Overlooked: Relentless & Ecstatic (2): Aug 27, 2024
This late-summer live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the second in a periodic series that showcases deliriously over-the-top music that’s ecstatic, sometimes relentlessly so. Through pieces...
Overlooked: The Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions: Aug 13, 2024
In the 1970s, some of the most promising jazz musicians occupied cheap spaces in downtown New York City that became known as jazz lofts. These included Ornette Coleman’s Artist House and Ali’s Alley,...
Overlooked: Newly Released Jazz: Jul 23, 2024
In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer spins more newly released music. This time it’s solely jazz, much centered on piano-led groups. Most of the show will be com...
Overlooked: Points of Departure, Part 3 (Disease): Jul 09, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the third in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musIcians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths, whether due to di...
Overlooked: More Newly-Released Music: Jun 29, 2024
In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer spins more newly released music of all shapes and sizes, colors, and flavors. The first third of this show will primarily fo...
Overlooked: More Newly-Released Music: Jun 25, 2024
Overlooked: Bard College Young Composers: Jun 11, 2024
In this very special edition of WGXC’s “Overlooked,” listeners will be treated to performances of works by young composers from Bard College. With the help of composer and Bard Music Conservatory Prof...
Overlooked: More Newly Released Music: May 28, 2024
Continuing New Music May, this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature nearly two dozen brand new pieces of music with the typical “Overlooked” wide-ranging mix of sounds and styles. There...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music: May 14, 2024
After three consecutive thematic programs, “Overlooked” will devote the month of May to newly released music. In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, host Rob Saffer will spin nearly two dozen...
Overlooked: Big Ears 11: Apr 24, 2024
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: Points of Departure, Part 2 (Disease): Apr 09, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the second in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musicians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths; from disease, ad...
Overlooked: Aural Illusions: Mar 27, 2024
This pre-recorded edition of “Overlooked” will explore fast music that appears to sound slow and slow music that appears to sound fast. Many listeners are aware of an optical illusion known as 'wagon...
Overlooked: Aural Illusions: Mar 22, 2024
Overlooked: New Releases - The Long and the Short of It: Mar 12, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain focuses on new releases, but starts with a re-issued track that's nearly 60 years old -- by Ornette Coleman, whose music always sounds new, and whose March 9...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 28, 2024
This WGXC “Lucky 13” Pledge Drive live broadcast of “Overlooked” will feature over 20 newly released gems. Like most “Overlooked” new releases shows, it spans many genres, from new classical and jazz...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 27, 2024
Overlooked: Relentless & Ecstatic: Feb 13, 2024
Coming a day before Valentine’s Day, this live broadcast will celebrate music that’s ecstatic, sometimes relentlessly so. Through pieces short and long, improvised and composed, the program will explo...
Overlooked: Relentless & Ecstatic: Feb 12, 2024
Overlooked: 23 Left Over From 2023: Jan 24, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 23 newly released recordings left over from 2023. They were too good to pass up so host Rob Saffer will give them some air in the second “Overlo...
Overlooked: 23 Left Over From 2023: Jan 23, 2024
Overlooked: Max at 100: Jan 09, 2024
After the local news at noon, this broadcast will celebrate the birthday of drummer and composer Max Roach, one day before he would have turned 100. Roach could improvise in small and large settings;...
Overlooked: 20231227: Dec 27, 2023
After the local 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 famili...
Overlooked: Points of Departure Part 1 (Disease): Dec 26, 2023
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the first in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musicians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths: from disease, add...
Overlooked: Overlooked: Dec 20, 2023
Underheard and Overlooked Music - hosted by Rob Saffer
Overlooked: New and Old Jazz: Dec 12, 2023
After the local news at noon, this live broadcast wil feature a mix of newly recorded and released jazz and improvised music along with newly re-released older classics from the 1960s ‘free’ jazz move...
Overlooked: From Spirituals to Swing: Nov 28, 2023
After the local news at noon, music recorded at two concerts entitled, “From Spirituals to Swing” in the late 1930s. Not even 30 at the time, producer John Hammond went against all odds and assembled...
Overlooked: The Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 23, 2023
Overlooked's “The Seventh Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” is rebroadcast from Nov. 23, 2021. Tryptophanfests are created to present an array of music so unlistenable that you...
Overlooked: 20231122: Nov 22, 2023
Overlooked: Jazz Supergroups: Nov 14, 2023
The local news at noon is followed by Jazz Supergroups — Good, Bad and Mediocre, an overlooked aspect of jazz music. Many listeners are aware of rock and roll supergroups such as Cream, Blind Faith, a...
Overlooked: Overlooked: Nov 02, 2023
Overlooked and under-heard music
Overlooked: Overlooked: Nov 01, 2023
Overlooked: Robert Fripp: Oct 25, 2023
After the local news at noon, the work of guitarist Robert Fripp, who for the past 54 years has most often been associated with the prog-rock band, King Crimson. His work outside that legendary band i...
Overlooked: Robert Fripp: Oct 24, 2023
Overlooked: Monkeying with Monkery: Oct 10, 2023
After the local news at noon, this live WGXC Fall Pledge Drive broadcast lands squarely (and hiply) on what would have been Thelonious Monk’s 106th birthday. The show will feature nine couplets, each...
Overlooked: 20230927: Sep 27, 2023
Overlooked: John Coltrane, Lost and Found: Sep 26, 2023
After the local news at noon, eleven lost and found posthumous John Coltrane recordings released over the past three decades. Coming just days after what would have been Trane’s 97th birthday, this sh...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Sep 12, 2023
After the local news at noon, detuned pianos, faded field recordings, audio palimpsests, hazy improvisation, melancholic composition, loopy, circular, and slow are just a few words to describe the new...
Overlooked: Songs for My Sister II: Aug 23, 2023
After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer plays some of his sister Cathy's favorite songs and musicians. Cathy is gravely ill with cancer. The broadcast is a celebration of her life, just days bef...
Overlooked: Songs for My Sister II: Aug 22, 2023
Overlooked: African Music for Summertime: Aug 08, 2023
After the local news at noon, this live broadcast will feature a variety of African sounds well suited for midsummer’s grinding heat with more than 20 tracks originating from Angola to Zimbabwe. Among...