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Overlooked: Newly Released Music: May 14, 2024
After three consecutive thematic programs, “Overlo...
Overlooked: Big Ears 11: Apr 24, 2024
Each year at the end of March, Knoxville, Tennesse...
Overlooked: Points of Departure, Part 2 (Disease): Apr 09, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be...
Overlooked: Aural Illusions: Mar 27, 2024
This pre-recorded edition of “Overlooked” will exp...
Overlooked: Aural Illusions: Mar 22, 2024
Overlooked: New Releases - The Long and the Short of It: Mar 12, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain focuses...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 28, 2024
This WGXC “Lucky 13” Pledge Drive live broadcast o...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 27, 2024
Overlooked: Relentless & Ecstatic: Feb 13, 2024
Coming a day before Valentine’s Day, this live bro...
Overlooked: Relentless & Ecstatic: Feb 12, 2024
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Rob Saffer: Jun 19, 2019
Rose City Band album cover.: Jul 11, 2023
Rose City Band album cover.
Baskot Lel Baltageyya album cover.: Jun 13, 2023
Baskot Lel Baltageyya (Akuphone)
Big Ears Festival logo.: Apr 25, 2023
Big Ears Festival logo.
Giant Brain image.: Apr 11, 2023
Giant Brain image from Smallstone Recordings, 2023...
The Beat of the Earth (1967): Jul 26, 2022
Balungan / Kudu Bisa Kudu: Jun 28, 2022
Iannis Xenakis: May 24, 2022
David Friend and Jerome Begin, Post- (New Amsterdam Records): May 10, 2022
David Friend and Jerome Begin, Post- (New Amsterda...
Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s: Apr 26, 2022
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20241112: Nov 12, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, “Overlooked” is a sh...
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Overlooked: Metal Jazz: Sep 24, 2019
In this broadcast, host Rob Saffer aims to showcase some ways jazz musicians have been influenced by heavy metal and how some early jazz experimenters helped expand a sonic palette often favored by he...
Overlooked: More New Releases: Sep 10, 2019
Host Rob Saffer continues to sift through new releases from 2019, with a few leftovers from 2018. Music from Nicole Mitchell, Fox Millions Duo, Matmos, Eric Dolphy, Anna Webber, Formosa String Quarte...
Overlooked: Songs for My Sister: Aug 27, 2019
This breezy, lighter-than-usual late summer episode of Overlooked will feature some of the favorite songs and artists of host Rob Saffer’s sister, Cathy, who was recently diagnosed and is being treate...
Overlooked: Jeanne Lee: Aug 13, 2019
A broadcast focused exclusively on the 40-year career of Jeanne Lee, American jazz composer, poet, educator, and singer of grace, power, and beauty. Host Rob Saffer and special guest Marc Epstein will...
Overlooked: New Releases Inching Toward 2019: Jul 23, 2019
Host Rob Saffer continues to explore somewhat new releases, some from 2018 and finally turning a corner to 2019. Artists in this broadcast will include Baby Grandmothers, Sean Noonan, Art Ensemble of...
Overlooked: Almost New Releases: Jul 09, 2019
Host Rob Saffer continues to make his way hrough new releases from 2018, hopefully arriving at 2019 before the year is up. In this broadcast, music by PC Worship, Sungjae Son, Joshua Trinidad, Yarn Wi...
Overlooked: Jazz 1964: Jun 25, 2019
It has been 55 years since one of the most experimental, breakthrough and historic years in jazz: 1964. In this broadcast, host Rob Saffer will explore some of the landmark jazz recordings of 1964. S...
Overlooked: Kind of New Releases, Pledge Drive Edition: Jun 11, 2019
During WGXC’s Testify! pledge drive, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer plays relatively new releases including work by Suss, Marilyn Crispell, Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores, Hamad Kalkaba, Thumbscrew,...
Overlooked: Bowl of RaMen: May 28, 2019
Coming nearly a week after what would have been Sun Ra’s 105th birthday, "Overlooked" will present the music of Ra’s sidemen, many of who rarely played outside of his legendary Arkestra. Host Rob Saff...
Overlooked: New[ish] Releases: May 14, 2019
This broadcast will feature new(ish) releases — most from the past 18 months, including work from Adam Hopkins, The Dreebs, Henry Threadgill, Bobby Previte, Miguel Zenon, Chat Noir and many more. “Ove...
Overlooked: Charles Mingus: Apr 23, 2019
Coming a day after what would have been composer, bandleader, bassist Charles Mingus’s 97th birthday, host Rob Saffer will play Mingus music from a full spectrum of the artist’s career — from large gr...
Overlooked: Big Ears Festival: Apr 09, 2019
The broadcast will focus on music heard at Big Ears 2019, the music festival held last month in Knoxville, TN, featuring more than 150 acts from a diverse musical spectrum, jazz and rock, classical an...
Overlooked: Great Black Music Ancient to Future: Feb 26, 2019
This broadcast will feature music by the Art Ensemble of Chicago. It will celebrate the 21-CD box set focused on recordings made between 1978 and 2015, the group and some of its associates made for th...
Overlooked: Jazzfest NYC 2019: Jan 22, 2019
With this broadcast, Overlooked moves to its new time, from noon to 2 p.m., every fourth Tuesday of the month, with a show focused on music heard at the Winter Jazzfest NYC earlier this month. Host Ro...
Overlooked: New Releases Not to be Overlooked: Jan 01, 2019
In this installment of WGXC's “Overlooked,” host Rob Saffer will play new-ish releases from 2018, including rock bands Body-Head, Vernod, Goat Girl, Magnet Animals, Wooden Shijps and improvisational m...
Overlooked: New Releases Not to be Overlooked: Dec 26, 2018
This broadcast features new-ish releases from 2018, including rock bands Body-Head, Vernod, Goat Girl, Magnet Animals, Wooden Shijps and improvisational music from Henry Threadgill, Cuong Vu, Adam O’F...
Overlooked: Fourth Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 22, 2018
Overlooked presents its Fourth Annual 'Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music.’ Host Rob Saffer will present an array of music so unlistenable that you’ll actually want to turn off the radio...
Overlooked: Giovanni Russonello: Oct 25, 2018
Hamiett Bluiett, the great baritone saxophone innovator, is best known as a co-founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, a group whose music kept faith with the African-American musical tradition while...
Overlooked: Sonny Sharrock: Sep 27, 2018
In this broadcast, an exploration of the career of guitarist Sonny Sharrock, from his work as a sideman in the 1960s with visionaries such as Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Mann and Pharoah Sander...
Overlooked: Ben Ratliff 3: Aug 23, 2018
The music critic Ben Ratliff recently prepared a half-hour mix called "The Sound of the Room" for BBC3 radio's experimental show "Late Junction.” Ben played recordings that convey the dimensions of th...
Overlooked: Miles Davis’ Jack Johnson: Jul 26, 2018
This edition of Overlooked will celebrate our Dear Leader’s recent posthumous pardon of heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson (1878-1946). The first African-American boxing champ, Johnson was the most...
Overlooked: Jazz Record Labels Vol. 2: Jun 28, 2018
This Radio Everywhere! pledge drive edition of Overlooked focuses on jazz record labels, their role in the development of the music and how each had its own sound, graphic style and personality. This...
Overlooked: Sun Ra, Composer: May 24, 2018
This installment of Overlooked celebrates the May 22, 1914 ‘arrival day’ of Herman Sonny Blount, better known as Sun Ra, the space—jazz keyboardist/bandleader/composer/arranger/philosopher/poet and go...
Overlooked: Jazz Soundtracks with Marc Epstein: Mar 22, 2018
This edition of Overlooked explores film soundtracks made by jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Duke Jordan, Marion Brown, Chico Hamilton, as well as other artists known and unknown, movies p...
Overlooked: Ben Ratliff: Jan 25, 2018
Music critic, cultural commentator, journalist and author Ben Ratliff, formerly of The New York Times, shares music he’s been listening to over the past months: contemporary composed, world, experime...
Overlooked: African Guitar: Dec 28, 2017
Host Rob Saffer features African music that showcases guitar, from griots to AfroRock. Rather than focusing on commonly heard African guitar music like King Sunny Ade, we’ll focus on ‘overlooked’ mast...
Overlooked: Third Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 23, 2017
Overlooked presents the Third Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music. Host Rob Saffer will present an array of music so unlistenable that you’ll actually want to turn off the radio an...
Overlooked: Ben Ratliff, Part 2: Jul 24, 2017
“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....
Overlooked: Ben Ratliff: May 25, 2017
This month Overlooked host Rob Saffer is honored and humbled to welcome his dear friend, music/cultural writer Ben Ratliff, to WGXC’s studios to listen to music from here to Burkina Faso and from the...
Overlooked: Ellington & Mingus: Apr 27, 2017
This installment of “Overlooked,” WGXC’s monthly guide to overlooked and under-heard music, comes sandwiched between two April birthdays: Duke Ellington (4/29) and Charles Mingus (4/22). Host Rob Saff...
Overlooked: Ben Ratliff: Jan 18, 2017
Overlooked: Monk and Coltrane: Sep 29, 2016
This edition of Overlooked falls in between the birthdays of John Coltrane (September 23) and Thelonious Monk (October 10) and that’s what we’ll listen to - Monk and Trane together in classic as well...
Overlooked: Jazz Soundtracks with Marc Epstein: Aug 08, 2016
Overlooked: Amiri Baraka's Jazz Poetry: Mar 24, 2016
Overlooked: Bowie, Bley and More: Jan 21, 2016
A show focusing on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational music and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experiments...a real mix of familiar to rare, classic to weird.
Overlooked: Jazz Jews for Xmas Eve: Dec 24, 2015
Overlooked: First Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 26, 2015
Overlooked: Couplets and Connections: Oct 22, 2015