Overlooked: Big Ears X: Apr 25, 2023

Each year at the end of March, sleepy Knoxville, Tennessee is taken over by hundreds of musicians from every corner of the world, for the Big Ears Festival. It's widely considered the most diverse mu...

Overlooked: Even More Newly Released Music!: Apr 11, 2023

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature the wide variety of genres and artists that “Overlooked” likes to spotlight on its programs of newly released music. It will include 18 tracks,...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Mar 28, 2023

This pre-recorded broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 19 newly released tracks offering listeners a diverse sample of music being made today. The show will feature: diaspora jazz from London...

Overlooked: Ornette Through Others’ Ears Vol. 2: Mar 22, 2023

A celebration of composer/musician/philosopher Ornette Coleman, five days after what would have been his 93rd birthday. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 20 Coleman compositions...

Overlooked: Ornette Through Others’ Ears Vol. 2: Mar 14, 2023

After the local news at noon, a celebration of composer/musician/philosopher Ornette Coleman, five days after what would have been his 93rd birthday. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will fe...

Overlooked: Ornette Through Others’ Ears Vol. 2: Mar 14, 2023

After the local news at noon, a celebration of composer/musician/philosopher Ornette Coleman, five days after what would have been his 93rd birthday. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will fe...

Overlooked: First New Releases Show of 2023: Feb 28, 2023

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the first “Overlooked” show of 2023 to feature newly released music: 21 pieces of all sonic shapes, sorts and sizes. Coming at the end of WGXC’s Win...

Overlooked: The Improvising King Crimson: Feb 14, 2023

After the local news at noon, two hours of the Improvising King Crimson. In the mid-1970s, the prog rock band King Crimson - John Wetton (bass, vocals), Bill Bruford (drums, percussion), David Cross (...

Overlooked: Jeremy Denk: Jan 25, 2023

After the local news at noon, 700 years of music with Jeremy Denk. The work of solo pianist Denk, a classical musician known for boldly mixing genres, styles, and eras will be featured during the broa...

Overlooked: Jeremy Denk: Jan 24, 2023

After the local news at noon, 700 years of music with Jeremy Denk. The work of solo pianist Denk, a classical musician known for boldly mixing genres, styles, and eras will be featured during the broa...

Overlooked: Horse Lords: Jan 10, 2023

After the local news at noon, two hours of the innovative music of Horse Lords, a Baltimore-based quartet that recently relocated to Berlin. Through five studio albums and four extended ‘mixtapes’ in...

Overlooked: 21 from 2022: Dec 28, 2022

After the local news at noon, the final “Overlooked” of 2022, featuring 21 new releases from 2022, highlighting the typically wide range of artists and styles associated with “Overlooked’s” newly rele...

Overlooked: 21 from 2022: Dec 27, 2022

After the local news at noon, the final “Overlooked” of 2022, featuring 21 new releases from 2022, highlighting the typically wide range of artists and styles associated with “Overlooked’s” newly rele...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Dec 13, 2022

After the local news at noon, this live broadcast will feature the seemingly sonically disconnected grab bag of newly released musical oddities painstakingly sequenced to make sonic sense. The show wi...

Overlooked: Eighth Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 23, 2022

This broadcast continues a WGXC tradition with the Eighth Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music to kick off the Thanksgiving weekend. Tryptophanfests are designed to get listeners to turn off the...

Overlooked: Eighth Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 22, 2022

After the local news at noon, this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain in Ulster County, continues a WGXC tradition with the Eighth Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music. In addition to its reg...

Overlooked: Overlooked: Nov 22, 2022

Underheard and Overlooked Music - hosted by Rob Saffer

Overlooked: Overlooked: Nov 21, 2022

Underheard and Overlooked Music - hosted by Rob Saffer

Overlooked: Overlooked: Nov 13, 2022

Underheard and Overlooked Music - hosted by Rob Saffer

Overlooked: New Sounds, New Supporters: Oct 26, 2022

This WGXC Tower Power Pledge Drive broadcast will feature an assortment of new sounds in the hope of attracting more new WGXC supporters. Host Rob Saffer will play a slew of guitar-driven jazz and imp...

Overlooked: New Sounds, New Supporters: Oct 25, 2022

This WGXC Tower Power Pledge Drive broadcast will feature an assortment of new sounds in the hope of attracting more new WGXC supporters. Host Rob Saffer will play a slew of guitar-driven jazz and imp...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Oct 12, 2022

After the local news at noon, listeners will be led through a variety of newly released recordings, connecting odd sonic dots, from straight-ahead jazz and panoramic synth-psych to Avant-hip hop jazz...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Oct 11, 2022

After the local news at noon, listeners will be led through a variety of newly released recordings, connecting odd sonic dots, from straight-ahead jazz and panoramic synth-psych to Avant-hip hop jazz...

Overlooked: John Gilmore Away from Ra’s Orbit: Sep 27, 2022

After the local news at noon, a broadcast celebrating the September 28, birthday of reed player, John Gilmore. Gilmore spent more than 40 years working almost exclusively with composer and bandleader...

Overlooked: John Gilmore Away from Ra’s Orbit: Sep 27, 2022

After the local news at noon, a broadcast celebrating the September 28, birthday of reed player, John Gilmore. Gilmore spent more than 40 years working almost exclusively with composer and bandleader...

Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Sep 13, 2022

After the local news at noon, a live broadcast of newly released music, with a special emphasis on guitars, psychedelic noisy metal, and new, improvised music (sometimes called jazz). Plus some "tradi...

Overlooked: Jazz Cellists (for Abdul Wadud): Aug 24, 2022

An exploration of the often overlooked world of jazz cellists, including Abdul Wadud who died at age 75 on August 10. As a memorial, this broadcast will feature improvising cellists as composers, band...

Overlooked: Jazz Cellists (for Abdul Wadud): Aug 23, 2022

After the local news at noon, an exploration of the often overlooked world of jazz cellists, including Abdul Wadud who died at age 75 on August 10. As a memorial, this broadcast will feature improvisi...

Overlooked: New Beats to Beat the Heat: Aug 09, 2022

After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer will play a heat-stroke, fever-dream grab-bag of newly released music. This broadcast will explore leading edges in the blending of contemporary composed...

Overlooked: Phillip Pearlman: Jul 27, 2022

After the local news at noon, this rebroadcast from July 26, 2022 from Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, NY, will explore the work of Phillip Pearlman, an obscure pioneer in psychedelic folk music. His...

Overlooked: Psych Pioneer Phillip Pearlman: Jul 26, 2022

After the local news at noon, this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, NY, will explore the work of Phillip Pearlman, an obscure pioneer in psychedelic folk music. His personal story i...

Overlooked: More New Releases: Jul 12, 2022

After the local news at noon, live from Overlook Mountain, the broadcast will feature 20 newly released recordings that run the gamut from Egyptian jazz and heavy minimalism to odd experiments fusing...

Overlooked: New Releases: Jun 28, 2022

The plan for this broadcast did not start the way it ended. Many of the tunes included have a musical edge a bit sharper than host Rob Saffer originally envisioned. After the local news at noon, here...

Overlooked: Holy Rock 'n' Rollers: Jun 14, 2022

After the local news at noon, preachers and poets, mystics and misfits, saints and sinners, demons, demigods, gods, cultists, believers, and heretics are just a few of the themes and character...

Overlooked: Iannis Xenakis: May 24, 2022

After the local news at noon, music as architecture, the work of composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2021). His music is haunting, architectural and mathematical, otherworldly and sculptural, industrial and...

Overlooked: A Lot of New Releases: May 10, 2022

After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer serves up a head-spinning selection of nearly 30 new releases, most relatively short in length. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will serve up a...

Overlooked: Charles Mingus Centennial: Apr 26, 2022

After the local news at noon, a celebration of the life of Charles Mingus, considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century American music, born 100 years ago on April 22, 1922. To h...

Overlooked: New Releases, Long and Noisy: Apr 12, 2022

After the local news at noon, Overlooked will focus on longer compositions by a wide range of musicians, rather than the usual new releases show that features roughly 25 pieces, often 2 to 5 minutes l...

Overlooked: Overlooked: Apr 12, 2022

Underheard and Overlooked Music - hosted by Rob Saffer

Overlooked: Overlooked: Apr 12, 2022

Underheard and Overlooked Music - hosted by Rob Saffer

Overlooked: New Releases, 2022: Mar 23, 2022

After the local news at noon, finally some new releases from Overlooked host Rob Saffer. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain features guitars, jazz, and jazz with guitars, made by newcomers and...

Overlooked: Ornette Coleman Through Others’ Ears: Mar 08, 2022

After the local news at noon, a tribute to composer/musician/philosopher Ornette Coleman, one day before what would have been his 92nd birthday. This WGXC Pledge Drive broadcast will feature Coleman's...

Overlooked: Betty Davis, 'Nasty Gal': Feb 22, 2022

In this broadcast, a celebration of the life of Betty Mabry Davis. Betty was a fashion designer, Wilhelmina model, and club hostess who met people like Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, and Andy Warhol. She wa...

Overlooked: Dollar Brand, Jaki Byard, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra: Feb 08, 2022

After the local news at noon, Overlooked will feature music from three great pianists — Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim), Jaki Byard, and Sun Ra — and one great bassist playing piano, Charles Mingus. H...

Overlooked: Overlooked: Jan 25, 2022

Underheard and Overlooked Music - hosted by Rob Saffer

Overlooked: Ron Miles, Kirk Knuffke: Jan 25, 2022

After the local news at noon, a look at the uncommon cornetists Ron Miles and Kirk Knuffke. They have the uncommon in common. Both men lived and worked a lot in Denver when many of their peers were in...

Overlooked: Revisiting 1960s Free Jazz with Ezz-thetics: Jan 11, 2022

After the local news at noon, the broadcast will focus on 1960s free jazz and improvisation, specifically on reissued classic recordings from Hat Hut’s two-year-old ezz-thetics sub-label. Host Rob Saf...

Overlooked: 21 from 2021: Dec 28, 2021

After the local news at noon, 21 new releases from 2021. In the past 11 months, host Rob Saffer played more than 600 tracks from more than 450 different musician composers, many "overlooked" by other...

Overlooked: Thread, Cellos, Artifacts: Dec 14, 2021

Cello can closely approximate human voice, making it approachable and beloved. This broadcast will celebrate the cello in myriad settings and forms, as well as in several compositions from two recent...

Overlooked: The Seventh Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 25, 2021

The first hour of 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 unl...