In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, host Rob Saffer will spin 25 newly released tunes, from international music and experiments with noise, to modern jazz and contemporary classical. The program will feature a fair amount of guitars, pianos, trumpets, strings and vocals. To preface his August 29th birthday, the show will commence with a recent cover of Charlie Parker’s “Anthropology.”

Playlist:

Prelude: Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

Anthropology - Linda May Oh Han & Melissa Aldana

The Boers Do Not Have Mercy (They Kill!!) - Namibian chorus

Elephant Promenade II - Amrita

Chrysalis - Upturned Cup

Lewis - John Hollenbeck

Swirl - Visible Cloaks

Milao - Piu

Am I the Butterfly? - Evolfo

Feitico - Deafkids

Squeeze - OOP (Booker Stardrum, Evan Shornstein)

Seacomings - Sea Moss

it Sermonette - Tip Toe Loops

This Ship is Going Under - Orbit 17

Dean F - Myra Lee

You Taste - Columbia Icefield

Souncheck - Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson

It Very Well May Be - Mark Turner

Box Heart - Micah Thomas

Tide Activity - Adam Rudolph

Open Sea, Boat’s Land - Alexander Hawkins

The Hours Suite Pt. 3 (Glass) - Simone Dinnerstein

Gay Guerilla - Pt. 8 - Always Making New Inversions (Eastman) - Wild Up

a deux: Lied im Gegenuber - Heinz Holliger, Marie Lise Schupbach

Alterknit - Min Xiao Fen & Julian Kytasty

Imanin - Tamikrest

“Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and underplayed music of all varieties: jazz, improvisational, international, and other fringe music, ancient to future, familiar to rare, classic to weird. Broadcast live from Overlook Mountain in Ulster County, “Overlooked” offers programs focused solely on newly released music along with others that focus on specific musical themes or history.

Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation and Creative Music Studio. While living in Brooklyn for 25 years, he served on advisory boards for Celebrate Brooklyn! and Symphony Space. He also co-curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue. Rob is also a judge for the annual Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll.