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Overlooked: Big Ears 11: Apr 24, 2024
Each year at the end of March, Knoxville, Tennesse...
Overlooked: Points of Departure, Part 2 (Disease): Apr 09, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be...
Overlooked: Aural Illusions: Mar 27, 2024
This pre-recorded edition of “Overlooked” will exp...
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...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 28, 2024
This WGXC “Lucky 13” Pledge Drive live broadcast o...
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 bro...
Overlooked: Relentless & Ecstatic: Feb 12, 2024
Overlooked: 23 Left Over From 2023: Jan 24, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will fe...
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Rob Saffer: Jun 19, 2019
Rose City Band album cover.: Jul 11, 2023
Rose City Band album cover.
Baskot Lel Baltageyya album cover.: Jun 13, 2023
Baskot Lel Baltageyya (Akuphone)
Big Ears Festival logo.: Apr 25, 2023
Big Ears Festival logo.
Giant Brain image.: Apr 11, 2023
Giant Brain image from Smallstone Recordings, 2023...
The Beat of the Earth (1967): Jul 26, 2022
Balungan / Kudu Bisa Kudu: Jun 28, 2022
Iannis Xenakis: May 24, 2022
David Friend and Jerome Begin, Post- (New Amsterdam Records): May 10, 2022
David Friend and Jerome Begin, Post- (New Amsterda...
Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s: Apr 26, 2022
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20241112: Nov 12, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, “Overlooked” is a sh...
20241023: Oct 23, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm
20241022: Oct 22, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20241008: Oct 08, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20240925: Sep 25, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm
20240924: Sep 24, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20240910: Sep 10, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20240828: Aug 28, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm
20240827: Aug 27, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20240813: Aug 13, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
Lots of Guitars: Oct 27, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
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...
Newly Released Music from All Over: Oct 14, 2020: 10pm - 11:59 pm
In this broadcast, host Rob Saffer will play a wide-ranging selection of recordings from all over the place, Belarus to Brooklyn, Mali to Massachusetts. Fully aware that the previous installment of “O...
Newly Released Music from All Over: Oct 13, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
Newly Released String Music for a Strung-out End of Summer: Sep 08, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast will focus on new recordings featuring string instruments, primarily violins, violas, cellos, and basses. There will be much beauty and intensity, along with plenty of droning and the u...
Squeaky, Moody Newly Released 'Rock': Aug 25, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
In this broadcast, brand new music widely considered 'rock' though most is sonically harder to characterize. The first hour will feature moody, short pieces generally two to four minutes in length whi...
Newly Released Jazz: Aug 11, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast will feature two hours of un-square new recordings that fit squarely into the jazz idiom. Featured musicians include Rudresh Mahanthappa; Dave Douglas; Matt Wilson; Alan Braufman; Rez A...
Oliver Nelson: Jul 28, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
In this broadcast, an examination of the brief and often-overlooked career of composer, arranger, bandleader and reed musician Oliver Nelson, who died of a heart attack in 1975, at the age of 42. Nels...
Long and Summery-Slow: Jul 14, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
This live remote broadcast will feature only five (maybe six) long, often droney, sometimes summery-slow pieces, all released in 2020: Jupiter Quartet (Ligeti Quartet #1); Sun of Goldfinger (“Congratu...
Juneteenth, Black Live Matters, New Releases: Jun 23, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast will honor Juneteenth and the Black Lives Matter movement with music by Ben LeMar Gay, Max Roach, Matthew Evan Taylor, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Jefferson Airplane (really?);...
Sonnys and Monks: Jun 12, 2020: 8pm - 10pm
A broadcast in honor of host Rob Saffer’s two cats, Sonny and Monk, featuring pieces long and short by Sonnys Ra, Sharrock, Clark, Simmons, and Rollins, along with Monks Thelonious, Meredith, Tibetan,...
Sonnys and Monks: Jun 09, 2020: 1pm - 3pm
May Days and New Releases: May 26, 2020: 1pm - 3pm
This broadcast will feature new music from 2020 along with pieces by musicians born in May. Host Rob Saffer will celebrate the birthdays of Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Miles Davis...
New Releases: May 12, 2020: 1pm - 3pm
After the local news at noon, music released in 2020, featuring Avishai Cohen; Threadbare; Simon Nabatov; Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, and Gerald Cleaver; Chad Taylor; Bernhard Meyer...
New Releases: Apr 28, 2020: 1pm - 3pm
In this episode of “Overlooked” host, Rob Saffer plays new releases from 2020, including Thunderbolt; Horse Lords; Jeremy Cunningham; Makaya McCraven and Gil Scott-Heron; King Krule; Alabaster DePlume...
2020 Big Ears Festival, But Not: Apr 14, 2020: 1pm - 3pm
New Music 2020: Mar 10, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast is the latest in an ongoing series highlighting unusual music released in 2020. Much of this episode will be music from the experimental rock genre, featuring OOIOO; Time is Fire; The A...
New Music from 2020, Pledge Drive Edition: Feb 25, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
In this special pledge drive broadcast, WGXC’s program focused on new and unusual music will feature new music released in 2020. Host Rob Saffer will play a collection of jazz including music by Gordo...
June Tyson: Feb 11, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
June Tyson: The Universe is In Her Voice. From 1968 until her death in 1992, this Saturnian Queen was the only woman in Sun Ra’s Arkestra, providing vocals, violin parts, poetry, choreography and even...
Last Licks of 2019: Jan 28, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, Overlooked gets in the last licks of 2019. The broadcast will feature some remnant tracks leftover from 2019 that host Rob Saffer just could not pass up. Artists include...
Duke Ellington Suites: Jan 14, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast will showcase extended compositions — suites — composed by Duke Ellington between 1946 and 1970. Pre-recorded with jazz archivist Marc Epstein, we will hear excerpts from the Queen’s Su...
Recent Releases: Dec 24, 2019: 12pm - 2pm
It’s official: Despite best efforts, there’s no way host Rob Saffer is going to finish showcasing music made in 2019, in 2019. There’s just too much good stuff! So we’ll continue apace, playing music...
More Kind-of-New Releases: Dec 10, 2019: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast will feature new music from 2019. The cross-genre show will include new pieces from Sunn O))), Miles Okazaki, Bill Orcutt, Tune Yards, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Spaza, The Last Poets, Lost i...
Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 28, 2019: 8pm - 10pm
Rebroadcast from Nov. 26, 2019. Overlooked presents the fifth annual "Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music.’ Host Rob Saffer will present an array of music so unlistenable that you will ac...
Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 26, 2019: 12pm - 2pm
Overlooked presents the fifth annual "Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music.’ Host Rob Saffer will present an array of music so unlistenable that you will actually want to turn off the radi...
Mary Halvorson: Nov 13, 2019: 10pm - 11:59 pm
This rebroadcast from Nov. 12, 2019 will focus on Mary Halvorson, a recently named 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Host Rob Saffer will explore Halvorson’s career as a composer, bandleader, and play...
Mary Halvorson: Nov 12, 2019: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast will focus on Mary Halvorson, a recently named 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Host Rob Saffer will explore Halvorson’s career as a composer, bandleader, and player through recordings...
Recent Releases: Oct 22, 2019: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast will feature new music, mostly from 2019. The cross-genre show will include new pieces from Adam Rudolph, Sarah Louise, Christian Scott Atunde, Romain Collin, Matthew Stevens, Marilyn M...
The Book Beri'Ah: Oct 08, 2019: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast airs just hours before the sunset arrival of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy day of atonement. To get into the proper spiritual and musical mindset, host Rob Saffer will play music primaril...
Metal Jazz: Sep 25, 2019: 10pm - 11:59 pm
In this rebroadcast from Sept. 24, 2019, host Rob Saffer aims to showcase some ways jazz musicians have been influenced by heavy metal and how some early jazz experimenters helped expand a sonic palet...
Metal Jazz: Sep 24, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
In this broadcast, host Rob Saffer aims to showcase some ways jazz musicians have been influenced by heavy metal and how some early jazz experimenters helped expand a sonic palette often favored by he...
More New Releases: Sep 10, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
Host Rob Saffer continues to sift through new releases from 2019, with a few leftovers from 2018. Music from Nicole Mitchell, Fox Millions Duo, Matmos, Eric Dolphy, Anna Webber, Formosa String Quarte...
Songs for My Sister: Aug 27, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
This breezy, lighter-than-usual late summer episode of Overlooked will feature some of the favorite songs and artists of host Rob Saffer’s sister, Cathy, who was recently diagnosed and is being treate...
Jeanne Lee: Aug 13, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
A broadcast focused exclusively on the 40-year career of Jeanne Lee, American jazz composer, poet, educator, and singer of grace, power, and beauty. Host Rob Saffer and special guest Marc Epstein will...
New Releases Inching Toward 2019: Jul 23, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
Host Rob Saffer continues to explore somewhat new releases, some from 2018 and finally turning a corner to 2019. Artists in this broadcast will include Baby Grandmothers, Sean Noonan, Art Ensemble of...
Almost New Releases: Jul 11, 2019: 8pm - 10pm
Rebroadcast from July 9, 2019. Host Rob Saffer continues to make his way through new releases from 2018, hopefully arriving at 2019 before the year is up. In this broadcast, music by PC Worship, Sungj...
Almost New Releases: Jul 09, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
Host Rob Saffer continues to make his way hrough new releases from 2018, hopefully arriving at 2019 before the year is up. In this broadcast, music by PC Worship, Sungjae Son, Joshua Trinidad, Yarn Wi...
Jazz 1964: Jun 25, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
It has been 55 years since one of the most experimental, breakthrough and historic years in jazz: 1964. In this broadcast, host Rob Saffer will explore some of the landmark jazz recordings of 1964. S...
Kind of New Releases, Pledge Drive Edition: Jun 11, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
During WGXC’s Testify! pledge drive, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer plays relatively new releases including work by Suss, Marilyn Crispell, Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores, Hamad Kalkaba, Thumbscrew,...
Bowl of RaMen: May 28, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
Coming nearly a week after what would have been Sun Ra’s 105th birthday, "Overlooked" will present the music of Ra’s sidemen, many of who rarely played outside of his legendary Arkestra. Host Rob Saff...
New[ish] Releases: May 14, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
This broadcast will feature new(ish) releases — most from the past 18 months, including work from Adam Hopkins, The Dreebs, Henry Threadgill, Bobby Previte, Miguel Zenon, Chat Noir and many more. “Ove...
Charles Mingus: Apr 23, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
Coming a day after what would have been composer, bandleader, bassist Charles Mingus’s 97th birthday, host Rob Saffer will play Mingus music from a full spectrum of the artist’s career — from large gr...
Big Ears Festival: Apr 10, 2019: 10pm - 11:59 pm
The broadcast will focus on music heard at Big Ears 2019, the music festival held last month in Knoxville, TN, featuring more than 150 acts from a diverse musical spectrum, jazz and rock, classical an...
Big Ears Festival: Apr 09, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
Great Black Music Ancient to Future: Feb 26, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
This broadcast will feature music by the Art Ensemble of Chicago. It will celebrate the 21-CD box set focused on recordings made between 1978 and 2015, the group and some of its associates made for th...
Jazzfest NYC 2019: Jan 22, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
With this broadcast, Overlooked moves to its new time, from noon to 2 p.m., every fourth Tuesday of the month, with a show focused on music heard at the Winter Jazzfest NYC earlier this month. Host Ro...
New Releases Not to be Overlooked: Jan 01, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm
In this installment of WGXC's “Overlooked,” host Rob Saffer will play new-ish releases from 2018, including rock bands Body-Head, Vernod, Goat Girl, Magnet Animals, Wooden Shijps and improvisational m...
New Releases Not to be Overlooked: Dec 29, 2018: 12:05 pm - 2pm
New Releases Not to be Overlooked: Dec 27, 2018: 8pm - 10pm
Fourth Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 22, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm
In this broadcast, the Fourth Annual 'Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music.’ Host Rob Saffer will present an array of music so unlistenable that you will actually want to turn off the radi...
Giovanni Russonello: Oct 25, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm
In this broadcast, a conversation with music critic, live music producer and jazz activist Giovanni Russonello featuring the music of jazz great Hamiett Bluiett, recorded Mon., Oct. 22 in the WGXC Hu...