This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will atypically focus on a single genre: newly released jazz. Host Rob Saffer will play new jazz that spans the gamut from solos to large ensembles, traditional to experimental forms, horns to guitars, musicians from Asia to America. The focus is mainly on new compositions, yet there will also be three renditions of Thelonious Monk classics. 

Playlist: 

The Eleven - Grateful Dead

Vitus Labrusca ("Overlooked" theme) - Ben LaMar Gay

Unshielded Desire - Gateway (for Jack DeJohnette)

Buck - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble

10:23am - Amir ElSaffar

And A Cloud Passes Over Me - Tim Barnes

Andromeda - Patricia Brennan

The Flying Mega Doghouse - Dave Gisler

Caro Ortolano - Jacob Garchik

Nightwhistlers - Trio of Bloom (Nels Cline, Craig Taborn, Marcus Gilmore)

Part 4 - Gray/Pirog/Ballou

Sonic Mountains - Jakob Bro, Wadada Leo Smith, Gilmore)

Whispering Images - Sylvie Courvoisier, Smith

Heavy Times - Kirk Knuffke

Moondial - Lingyuan Yang

The Oyster is Your World - Noah Becker

Mobilize - Tomas Fujiwara

Grace in Rot - Neti-Neti

‘Round Midnight - Ned Rothenberg

Skippy - Eric McPherson

Trinkle Tinkle - Corea, McBride, Blade

For Joe Gallivan - Pat Thomas

Ghost Lullaby - Caroline Davis, Dustin Carlson

“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 curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue. He is also a judge for the annual Downbeat Magazine critics poll.