More Newly-Released Music: Jun 25, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Bard College Young Composers: Jun 11, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

More Newly Released Music: May 28, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Newly Released Music: May 14, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Big Ears 11: Apr 24, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Big Ears 11: Apr 23, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Points of Departure, Part 2 (Disease): Apr 09, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Aural Illusions: Mar 27, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Aural Illusions: Mar 26, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

New Releases - The Long and the Short of It: Mar 12, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 28, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 27, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Relentless & Ecstatic: Feb 13, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

23 Left Over From 2023: Jan 24, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

23 Left Over From 2023: Jan 23, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Max at 100: Jan 09, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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;...

20231227: Dec 27, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Points of Departure Part 1 (Disease): Dec 26, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

New and Old Jazz: Dec 12, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

From Spirituals to Swing: Nov 28, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

The Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 23, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20231122: Nov 22, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Jazz Supergroups: Nov 14, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Robert Fripp: Oct 25, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Robert Fripp: Oct 24, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Monkeying with Monkery: Oct 10, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20230927: Sep 27, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

John Coltrane, Lost and Found: Sep 26, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Newly Released Music: Sep 12, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Songs for My Sister II: Aug 23, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Songs for My Sister II: Aug 22, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

African Music for Summertime: Aug 08, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20230726: Jul 26, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

One Hundred Years of Musician-Led Jazz Record Labels: Jul 25, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer and guest Marc Epstein will explore the first 100 years of musician-led jazz record labels. The (roughly) chronological review spans recordings from Fletc...

New Releases Heavy and Light: Jul 11, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

The air in the Hudson Valley has alternated between thick, leaden and smokey, and clear, bright and wispy. This live WGXC summer pledge drive broadcast from Overlook Mountain will celebrate air. Featu...

20230628: Jun 28, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Out is In: Jun 27, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, for certain jazz musicians who recorded from the mid 1950s until 1970, going out — at times way out — was in. Eric Dolphy, Booker Little and Roy Haynes were among those a...

New Releases from Europe and the Middle East: Jun 13, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature newly released Middle Eastern music and contemporary Jazz primarily from the European record labels Akuphone, Clean Feed, and Intakt. Egypt fea...

20230524: May 24, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Music + Words (Not Lyrics), Vol. 1: May 23, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature spoken word and poetry, backed by music of all types and styles, from jazz and dub to psychedelic and avant garde. Special guest, music archivis...

Newly Released Music: May 09, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature newly released music exploring a wide variety of sonic directions including unusual instrumentation and vocalizing. A primary focus will be on n...

Big Ears X: Apr 26, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Big Ears X: Apr 25, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Even More Newly Released Music!: Apr 11, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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,...

Newly Released Music: Mar 28, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Ornette Through Others’ Ears Vol. 2: Mar 22, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Ornette Through Others’ Ears Vol. 2: Mar 14, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

First New Releases Show of 2023: Feb 28, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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...

The Improvising King Crimson: Feb 14, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

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 (...

Jeremy Denk: Jan 25, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...