This WGXC “Lucky 13” Pledge Drive live broadcast of “Overlooked” will feature over 20 newly released gems. Like most “Overlooked” new releases shows, it spans many genres, from new classical and jazz to world music and psych, as well as a variety of groupings, solo to large ensemble. Some recordings are debuts and some are by veterans. Most are brand new; a handful are reissues. This show encapsulates (and celebrates!) WGXC’s thirteen years of its 'radio for open ears' programming philosophy.

Playlist:
Friday the 13th - Miles Okazaki
The 13th Fugue - Jason Moran’s BANGS
Vitus Labrusca (“Overlooked” theme) - Ben LaMar Gay
Hot Club of 13th Street - Dave Douglas
Opening - Phillip Glass
Imidiwan - Abdallah Oubadougou
Funky Tambourine - Jahari Massamba Unit
Afro Blues - Takuya Kuroda
Empirical Perception - James Brandon Lewis
Khuzama - Farah Kaddour
Break the Branch - Gordon Grdina
Adi - Nadah El-Shazly
Please, Save Me - Saramaccan Sound
Venusian Sunset (Le Sony’r) - Terry Adams
In Heaven - The Choir Invisible
Minimalism - Ches Smith
Radical - Tomato Flower
Expressway to Yr. Skull - Sonic Youth
Hive II - Antistatic
Dissolution - Grdina/Lillinger
prphtbrd - MIZU
Grotesquerie - India Galley
This Too Shall Pass - Gidon Kremer

After the local news at noon, “Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational, and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experiments, a mix of familiar to rare, classic to weird. Live from the shadow of Overlook Mountain in Ulster County.

Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation. 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.

Overlooked Playlist Archive