As the year comes to a close, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer is trying to squeeze in as many new releases as possible. This show will feature new music focused on strings, percussion, vocals, guitar and harp, though not always together, as well as jazz in a variety of forms: metal, straight, out, electric, acoustic, modern and more.

Playlist:

Prelude: Sun Rava - Enrico Rava

Theme: Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

Fantasia Nr. 5 - John Zorn/Fantasias

Mabinogion - John Zorn/Flatlands

Rara - Marc Ribot Quartet

New Angels - Mike Reed’s Separatist Party

Freedom Jazz Dance - Paul Dunmall

Dubbsaw - Das Rad

Deliberations - Airlift

Pacific - Butterss, Raymond, Lumsdaine

Blue Jungles - Phil Haynes

Load Cell - Myra Melford’s Fire & Water Quintet

King of Hearts - Sylvie Courvoisier

Anechoic - Bajune Tobeta

Step, Line, Trade - Jessica Pavone (with Fred Frith)

Qalat - Amir ElSaffar

String Quartet #2, 4th Movement - Sammy Weissberg

Tales too - Payton McDonald

Six Japanese Gardens (Saariaho) - Steven Schick

Loop Piece: Verortlichen - Francesca Garza

Looking for Dad - Isabelle Olivier & Raphael Olivier

Improvisation 1 - Zaldivar, McBride, Mela

Zo #1 - Matthew Shipp & William Parker

“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 that showcase 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.