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

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...

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

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 27, 2018: 8pm - 10pm

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...

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...

Sonny Sharrock: Sep 27, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm

In this broadcast, an exploration of the career of guitarist Sonny Sharrock, from his work as a sideman in the 1960s with visionaries such as Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Mann and Pharoah Sande...

Ben Ratliff 3: Aug 23, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm

The music critic Ben Ratliff recently prepared a half-hour mix called "The Sound of the Room" for BBC3 radio's experimental show "Late Junction.” Ben played recordings that convey the dimensions of th...

Miles Davis’ Jack Johnson: Jul 26, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm

This edition of Overlooked will celebrate our Dear Leader’s recent posthumous pardon of heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson (1878-1946). The first African-American boxing champ, Johnson was the most...

Jazz Record Labels Vol. 2: Jun 28, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm

This Radio Everywhere! pledge drive edition of Overlooked focuses on jazz record labels, their role in the development of the music and how each had its own sound, graphic style and personality. This...

Sun Ra, Composer: May 24, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm

This installment of WGXC’s Overlooked will celebrate the May 22, 1914 ‘arrival day’ of Herman Sonny Blount, better known as Sun Ra, the space—jazz keyboardist/bandleader/composer/arranger/philosopher/...

New Releases: Apr 26, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm

Overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational music and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experimental music——familiar to rare, classic to weird. This installment of WGXC’s Overl...

Jazz Soundtracks with Marc Epstein: Mar 22, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm

This edition of Overlooked will explore film soundtracks made by jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Duke Jordan, Marion Brown, Chico Hamilton, as well as other artists known and unknown, movi...

The Canterbury Sound: Feb 22, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm

In this special Radio Magic Pledge Drive installment of Overlooked, host Rob Saffer and guest host DJ Doob (aka Bill Dubilier) will focus narrowly on the Canterbury sound, improvisational progressive...

Ben Ratliff: Jan 25, 2018: 7pm - 9:30 pm

In this edition of Overlooked, music critic, cultural commentator, journalist and author Ben Ratliff, formerly of The New York Times, will share music he’s been listening to over the past months: con...

African Guitar: Dec 28, 2017: 7pm - 9pm

This installment of Overlooked will focus on African guitar. Host Rob Saffer will feature African music that showcases guitar, from griots to AfroRock. Rather than focusing on commonly heard African g...

Third Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 29, 2017: 9:30 pm - 11:59 pm

The Thanksgiving feeding frenzy is over but the hangover lives on! For a special rebroadcast, Overlooked presents the Third Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music. Host Rob Saffer pre...

Third Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 23, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm

Overlooked presents the Third Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music. Host Rob Saffer will present an array of music so unlistenable that you’ll actually want to turn off the radio an...

The Golden Record: Oct 26, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm

Special Harvest Extended Pledge Drive broadcast. On Thursday, October 26 at 7:00 PM, WGXC’s “Overlooked" will broadcast The Golden Record in its entirety. The newly-released three-LP box set is an au...

Jewish-ish: Sep 28, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm

Airing between the Jewish holidays Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, this edition of Overlooked will focus on Jewish-ish music, with an emphasis on the ‘ish.’ Instead of playing straight Jewish music such...

Mardi Gras Indians: Aug 24, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm

In this installment of Overlooked, host Rob Saffer will share with WGXC listeners the music of the Mardi Gras Indians—social clubs or ’tribes’ that blend African, Cuban, Latin American, Native America...

Hampton Grease Band Meets OOIOO: Jul 27, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm

In this lighter-than-normal, summery installment of “Overlooked,” host Rob Saffer will focus on two bands: OOIOO from Japan and The Hampton Grease Band, whose album, Music to Eat, was the second-worst...