20241112: Nov 12, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20241023: Oct 23, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

20241022: Oct 22, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20241008: Oct 08, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240925: Sep 25, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

20240924: Sep 24, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240910: Sep 10, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240828: Aug 28, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

20240827: Aug 27, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240813: Aug 13, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240724: Jul 24, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

20240723: Jul 23, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240709: Jul 09, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240626: Jun 26, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

20240625: Jun 25, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240611: Jun 11, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240528: May 28, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

20240522: May 22, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

20240514: May 14, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Big Ears 11: Apr 24, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

Each year at the end of March, Knoxville, Tennessee is taken over by hundreds of musicians from every corner of the world for the Big Ears Festival, widely considered the most diverse music festival i...

Big Ears 11: Apr 23, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

Each year at the end of March, Knoxville, Tennessee is taken over by hundreds of musicians from every corner of the world for the Big Ears Festival, widely considered the most diverse music festival i...

Points of Departure, Part 2 (Disease): Apr 09, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the second in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musicians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths; from disease, ad...

Aural Illusions: Mar 27, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

This pre-recorded edition of “Overlooked” will explore fast music that appears to sound slow and slow music that appears to sound fast. Many listeners are aware of an optical illusion known as 'wagon...

Aural Illusions: Mar 26, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

This pre-recorded edition of “Overlooked” will explore fast music that appears to sound slow and slow music that appears to sound fast. Many listeners are aware of an optical illusion known as 'wagon...

New Releases - The Long and the Short of It: Mar 12, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain focuses on new releases, but starts with a re-issued track that's nearly 60 years old -- by Ornette Coleman, whose music always sounds new, and whose March 9...

Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 28, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 27, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Relentless & Ecstatic: Feb 13, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

Coming a day before Valentine’s Day, this live broadcast will celebrate music that’s ecstatic, sometimes relentlessly so. Through pieces short and long, improvised and composed, the program will explo...

23 Left Over From 2023: Jan 24, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 23 newly released recordings left over from 2023. They were too good to pass up so host Rob Saffer will give them some air in the second “Overlo...

23 Left Over From 2023: Jan 23, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 23 newly released recordings left over from 2023. They were too good to pass up so host Rob Saffer will give them some air in the second “Overlo...

Max at 100: Jan 09, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, this broadcast will celebrate the birthday of drummer and composer Max Roach, one day before he would have turned 100. Roach could improvise in small and large settings;...

20231227: Dec 27, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Points of Departure Part 1 (Disease): Dec 26, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the first in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musicians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths: from disease, add...

New and Old Jazz: Dec 12, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, this live broadcast wil feature a mix of newly recorded and released jazz and improvised music along with newly re-released older classics from the 1960s ‘free’ jazz move...

From Spirituals to Swing: Nov 28, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, music recorded at two concerts entitled, “From Spirituals to Swing” in the late 1930s. Not even 30 at the time, producer John Hammond went against all odds and assembled...

The Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 23, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

Overlooked's “The Seventh Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” is rebroadcast from Nov. 23, 2021. Tryptophanfests are created to present an array of music so unlistenable that you...

20231122: Nov 22, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Jazz Supergroups: Nov 14, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

The local news at noon is followed by Jazz Supergroups — Good, Bad and Mediocre, an overlooked aspect of jazz music. Many listeners are aware of rock and roll supergroups such as Cream, Blind Faith, a...

Robert Fripp: Oct 25, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

After the local news at noon, the work of guitarist Robert Fripp, who for the past 54 years has most often been associated with the prog-rock band, King Crimson. His work outside that legendary band i...

Robert Fripp: Oct 24, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, the work of guitarist Robert Fripp, who for the past 54 years has most often been associated with the prog-rock band, King Crimson. His work outside that legendary band i...

Monkeying with Monkery: Oct 10, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, this live WGXC Fall Pledge Drive broadcast lands squarely (and hiply) on what would have been Thelonious Monk’s 106th birthday. The show will feature nine couplets, each...

20230927: Sep 27, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

John Coltrane, Lost and Found: Sep 26, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, eleven lost and found posthumous John Coltrane recordings released over the past three decades. Coming just days after what would have been Trane’s 97th birthday, this sh...

Newly Released Music: Sep 12, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, detuned pianos, faded field recordings, audio palimpsests, hazy improvisation, melancholic composition, loopy, circular, and slow are just a few words to describe the new...

Songs for My Sister II: Aug 23, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer plays some of his sister Cathy's favorite songs and musicians. Cathy is gravely ill with cancer. The broadcast is a celebration of her life, just days bef...

Songs for My Sister II: Aug 22, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer plays some of his sister Cathy's favorite songs and musicians. Cathy is gravely ill with cancer. The broadcast is a celebration of her life, just days bef...

African Music for Summertime: Aug 08, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, this live broadcast will feature a variety of African sounds well suited for midsummer’s grinding heat with more than 20 tracks originating from Angola to Zimbabwe. Among...

20230726: Jul 26, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

One Hundred Years of Musician-Led Jazz Record Labels: Jul 25, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer and guest Marc Epstein will explore the first 100 years of musician-led jazz record labels. The (roughly) chronological review spans recordings from Fletc...

New Releases Heavy and Light: Jul 11, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

The air in the Hudson Valley has alternated between thick, leaden and smokey, and clear, bright and wispy. This live WGXC summer pledge drive broadcast from Overlook Mountain will celebrate air. Featu...