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Overlooked: Newly Released Music

Oct 13, 2026: 12pm - 2pm
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Fifteen, Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto, Nonesuch Records, 2026

Fifteen, Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto, Nonesuch Records, 2026. (Oct 13, 2026)

Hosted by Rob Saffer.

Eerie vocals, ghostly trumpet, explosive guitar and gentle piano are just a few of the newly-released sounds that will be heard in this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain. The program will feature noisy rock, “unjazz,” new jazz, operatic Americana, Omani bagpipes, and much more.

Playlist:

Prelude: Silenci - Xiscle - Barcelona Art Orchestra & Miguel Zenon

Theme: Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

Imanin - Tamikrest

Spectral DisOrder - Poly Math

the ineptitude for mutual discernment- BIG/BRAVE

Up at 6 - Marvin Tate

A Storm in Morwenstow - Alison Cotton

369 - Unjazz

Ghost of Love - YHWH Nailgun

American Burial - Alex Zhang Hungtai

Titano - Steven Bernstein and Scotty Hard

Definitely Not Friends - Alden Hellmuth

That Far is Now - Michael Marcus

Transitional Imagery - Ralph Alessi

Last Night - Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto

Chalk - Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford

Melt To and Back Again (Eastman) - Wild Up

Movement 4 - Zeus Command - Floating Points

The Balcony - MC Schmidt & John Berndt

Ashen Cinder - Faith Coloccia & Tashi Dorji

Saiwengshima - Ayam Suzuki & Rob Noyes

My Epitaph - Renee Fleming with Bela Fleck

Bonsai - Nora Stanley

Better than Wine - Basya Schechter

I Hear a Noise on the Thatch Roof & It Reminds Me of How Much I Miss Home - Oman Bagpipe Singers

Steppin’ (Hemphill) - Marty Ehrlich (Open Air: The Complete Saxophone Compositions of Julius Hemphill)

“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.