Overlooked: Sonnys and Monks: Jun 09, 2020

A broadcast in honor of host Rob Saffer’s two cats, Sonny and Monk, featuring pieces long and short by Sonnys Ra, Sharrock, Clark, Simmons, and Rollins, along with Monks Thelonious, Meredith, Tibetan,...

Overlooked: May Days and New Releases: May 26, 2020

This broadcast will feature new music from 2020 along with pieces by musicians born in May. Host Rob Saffer will celebrate the birthdays of Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Miles Davis...

Overlooked: New Releases: May 12, 2020

After the local news at noon, music released in 2020, featuring Avishai Cohen; Threadbare; Simon Nabatov; Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, and Gerald Cleaver; Chad Taylor; Bernhard Meyer...

Overlooked: New Releases: Apr 28, 2020

In this episode of “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer plays new releases from 2020, including: Thunder Bolt; Horse Lords; Jeremy Cunningham; Makaya McCraven and Gil Scott-Heron; King Krule; Alabaster DePlum...

Overlooked: 2020 Big Ears Festival, But Not: Apr 14, 2020

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 famili...

Overlooked: New Music 2020: Mar 10, 2020

This broadcast is the latest in an ongoing series highlighting unusual music released in 2020. Much of this episode will be music from the experimental rock genre, featuring OOIOO; Time is Fire; The A...

Overlooked: New Music from 2020, Pledge Drive Edition: Feb 25, 2020

In this special pledge drive broadcast, WGXC’s program focused on new and unusual music will feature new music released in 2020. Host Rob Saffer will play a collection of jazz including music by Gordo...

Overlooked: June Tyson: Feb 11, 2020

June Tyson: The Universe is In Her Voice. From 1968 until her death in 1992, this Saturnian Queen was the only woman in Sun Ra’s Arkestra, providing vocals, violin parts, poetry, choreography and even...

Overlooked: June Tyson: Feb 11, 2020

June Tyson: The Universe is In Her Voice. From 1968 until her death in 1992, this Saturnian Queen was the only woman in Sun Ra’s Arkestra, providing vocals, violin parts, poetry, choreography and even...

Overlooked: Last Licks of 2019: Jan 28, 2020

After the local news at noon, Overlooked gets in the last licks of 2019. The broadcast will feature some remnant tracks leftover from 2019 that host Rob Saffer just could not pass up. Artists include...

Overlooked: Duke Ellington Suites: Jan 14, 2020

This broadcast will showcase extended compositions — suites — composed by Duke Ellington between 1946 and 1970. Pre-recorded with jazz archivist Marc Epstein, we will hear excerpts from the Queen’s Su...

Overlooked: Recent Releases: Dec 24, 2019

It’s official: Despite best efforts, there’s no way host Rob Saffer is going to finish showcasing music made in 2019, in 2019. There’s just too much good stuff! So we’ll continue apace, playing music...

Overlooked: More Kind-of-New Releases: Dec 10, 2019

This broadcast will feature new music from 2019. The cross-genre show will include new pieces from Sunn O))), Miles Okazaki, Bill Orcutt, Tune Yards, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Spaza, The Last Poets, Lost i...

Overlooked: Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 26, 2019

Overlooked presents the fifth annual "Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music.’ Host Rob Saffer will present an array of music so unlistenable that you will actually want to turn off the radi...

Overlooked: Mary Halvorson: Nov 12, 2019

This broadcast will focus on Mary Halvorson, a recently named 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Host Rob Saffer will explore Halvorson’s career as a composer, bandleader, and player through recordings...

Overlooked: Recent Releases: Oct 22, 2019

This broadcast will feature new music, mostly from 2019. The cross-genre show will include new pieces from Adam Rudolph, Sarah Louise, Christian Scott Atunde, Romain Collin, Matthew Stevens, Marilyn M...

Overlooked: The Book Beri'Ah: Oct 08, 2019

This broadcast airs just hours before the sunset arrival of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy day of atonement. To get into the proper spiritual and musical mindset, host Rob Saffer will play music primaril...

Overlooked: Metal Jazz: Sep 25, 2019

In this rebroadcast from Sept. 24, 2019, 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 palet...

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” 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: 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...