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Overlooked: Two Fats, Two Chicks and a Dodo: The Jazz Nickname Project (Part 1): Jan 27, 2026
This pre-recorded broadcast from Overlooked Mounta...
Overlooked: Jazz That's A Century Old: Dec 23, 2025
As we near the end of 2025, this live broadcast fr...
Overlooked: Newly Released Strings, Vocals and Percussion: Dec 09, 2025
In the last newly released music show of 2025, “Ov...
Overlooked: The Second Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Relentless & Ecstatic Music (rebroadcast of November 25, 2025): Nov 27, 2025
For nine years, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has p...
The Second Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Relentless & Ecstatic Music: Nov 25, 2025
Overlooked: Newly Released Jazz: Nov 11, 2025
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will at...
Overlooked: The Long and Short of Newly Released Music: Oct 28, 2025
This installment of “Overlooked” will feature all...
Overlooked: Even More New Releases (10th Anniversary Show!): Oct 14, 2025
“Overlooked” first hit WGXC's airwaves on October...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music: Sep 23, 2025
On what would have been John Coltrane’s 99th birth...
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Rob Saffer: Jun 19, 2019
"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
Orchestra Gold, 2019: Nov 25, 2025
Of the Near and Far, Patricia Brennan, Pyroclastic Records, 2025: Nov 11, 2025
Listen Ship, Henry Threadgill, Pi Recordings, 2025: Oct 28, 2025
Jim Black & The Schrimps, Better You Don't, 2025, Intakt Recordings: Oct 14, 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
20260414: Apr 14, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
20260324: Mar 24, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
20260310: Mar 10, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
20260224: Feb 24, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
20260210: 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...
Jazz That's A Century Old: Dec 23, 2025: 12pm - 2pm
Jazz Record Labels: Jun 22, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm
This Radios in Motion pledge drive installment of “Overlooked” will focus on jazz record labels, their role in the development of the music and how each had their own sound, look and personality. Prog...
Ben Ratliff: May 25, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm
This month Overlooked host Rob Saffer is honored and humbled to welcome his dear friend, music/cultural writer Ben Ratliff, to WGXC’s studios to listen to music from here to Burkina Faso and from the...
Ellington & Mingus: Apr 27, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm
The next installment of “Overlooked,” WGXC’s monthly guide to overlooked and under-heard music, comes sandwiched between two April birthdays: Duke Ellington (4/29) and Charles Mingus (4/22). On Thursd...
International Rock and Funk: Mar 23, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm
This installment of Overlooked will feature international rock and funk from all five continents with selections showcasing local languages and instruments. It includes Qawwali remixes, South America...
Middle Eastern/North African Music: Feb 23, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm
In this broadcast, a showcase the genre-defying intersection of traditional Arabic and Islamic music with contemporary improvisation. Musicians will include Hassan Hakmoun, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Bismilla...
Technical Mix Up II: Jan 26, 2017: 7pm - 9:30 pm
A show focusing on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational music and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experiments...a real mix of familiar to rare, classic to weird. Hoste...
Mystery Band: Dec 22, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
On December 22nd, Overlooked host Rob Saffer will switch from typically presenting a lot of artists from a variety of genres and instead will present a single, live recording that occurred on the show...
Second Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 24, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
On Thanksgiving, November 24, from 7 - 9:30, Overlooked will present the Second Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music. Host Rob Saffer and guests Sarah (age 13) and Sam (age 16) will...
British 60s Psych with Bill Dubilier: Oct 27, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Music nut and record store crawler Bill Dubilier is a guest on this month's “Overlooked.” The show focuses on his collection of rare, little-known and under-heard psychedelic music, primarily from the...
Monk and Coltrane: Sep 29, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
This edition of Overlooked falls in between the birthdays of John Coltrane (September 23) and Thelonious Monk (October 10) and that’s what we’ll listen to - Monk and Trane together in classic as well...
Technical Mix Up I: Aug 25, 2016: 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...
Krautrock with Matthew Cullen: Jul 28, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
This month's show features Kraut Rock from the late 60s and 70s with special guest co-host, musician/producer/audio engineer and good pal Matthew Cullen. We'll listen to Can, Ash Ra Temple, Cluster,...
Creative Music Studio: Jun 23, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Two weeks ago, Steve Coleman, Hassan Hakmoun, Adam Rudolph, Hamid Drake, Taylor Ho Bynum and Karl Berger among many other world-class artists and 34 aspiring musicians from all over the world came to...
20160526: May 26, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Big Ears Festival Review: Apr 28, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Amiri Baraka's Jazz Poetry: Mar 24, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Jazz Quintets: Feb 25, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Bowie, Bley and More: Jan 21, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Jazz Jews for Xmas Eve: Dec 24, 2015: 7pm - 9:30 pm
First Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 26, 2015: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Couplets and Connections: Oct 22, 2015: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Show Premiere: Oct 22, 2015: 7pm - 9:30 pm
Premiere broadcast of Overlooked, a show that focusses on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational music and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experimental -- a mix of music...