20250513: May 13, 2025: 12pm - 2pm

After the 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...

20250422: Apr 22, 2025: 12pm - 2pm

After the 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...

20250408: Apr 08, 2025: 12pm - 2pm

After the 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...

20250325: Mar 25, 2025: 12pm - 2pm

After the 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...

20250311: Mar 11, 2025: 12pm - 2pm

After the 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...

20250225: Feb 25, 2025: 12pm - 2pm

After the 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...

20250211: Feb 11, 2025: 12pm - 2pm

After the 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...

20250128: Jan 28, 2025: 12pm - 2pm

After the 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...

Last Licks of 2024: Jan 14, 2025: 12pm - 2pm

There’s never enough time to play choice tracks during the year they’re recorded; the queue is always longer than “Overlooked” air-time. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 19 tast...

Happy Chrismukkah: Dec 24, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

It’s rare when Christmas and Hanukkah share the same Eve but that’s what’s happening in 2024. In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will devote the first half of...

Years End New Releases: Dec 10, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

As 2025 looms on the horizon, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer is eager to share what’s left of worthy 2024 new releases: in this case mostly jazz and world music. The early December cornucopia includes c...

The First Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Relentless & Ecstatic Music: Nov 28, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

For nine years, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has presented the “Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” as a public service to get his listeners to spend holiday time with their hopef...

The First Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Relentless & Ecstatic Music: Nov 26, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

For nine years, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has presented the “Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” as a public service to get his listeners to spend holiday time with their hopef...

Mostly New Music: Nov 12, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will primarily highlight contemporary, classically-inspired tunes that are often known as "New Music." Through compositions...

Bird in Kansas City plus New Jazz (re-air of October 22, 2024): Oct 25, 2024: 2pm - 4pm

It’s not every day that new recordings by Charlie Parker are unearthed. It’s even rarer when they’re private recordings and not well-traveled bootlegs. Rarer still when they’re recorded in Bird’s hom...

Bird in Kansas City plus New Jazz: Oct 22, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

It’s not every day that new recordings by Charlie Parker are unearthed. It’s even rarer when they’re private recordings and not well-traveled bootlegs. Rarer still when they’re recorded in Bird’s hom...

Points of Departure, Part 4 (Disease & Accidents): Oct 08, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the fourth in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musicians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths, whether due to d...

More Newly Released Music: Sep 24, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

After a string of thematic shows focused on The Wildflowers Sessions, jazz musicians who died too young, and music that’s relentless and ecstatic, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer is dedicating the month...

New Releases - Short & Spiky: Sep 10, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

The most recent installment of “Overlooked” focused on freely flowing relentless and ecstatic music that featured nine long tracks, many between 10 and 20 minutes long. This live broadcast from Overl...

Relentless & Ecstatic (2): Aug 27, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

This late-summer live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the second in a periodic series that showcases deliriously over-the-top music that’s ecstatic, sometimes relentlessly so. Through pieces...

The Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions: Aug 13, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

In the 1970s, some of the most promising jazz musicians occupied cheap spaces in downtown New York City that became known as jazz lofts. These included Ornette Coleman’s Artist House and Ali’s Alley,...

Newly Released Jazz: Jul 23, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer spins more newly released music. This time it’s solely jazz, much centered on piano-led groups. Most of the show will be com...

Points of Departure, Part 3 (Disease): Jul 09, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the third in a multipart series devoted to showcasing overlooked jazz musIcians whose careers were sadly cut short by early deaths, whether due to di...

More Newly-Released Music: Jun 29, 2024: 3am - 5am

In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer spins more newly released music of all shapes and sizes, colors, and flavors. The first third of this show will primarily fo...

More Newly-Released Music: Jun 25, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer spins more newly released music of all shapes and sizes, colors, and flavors. The first third of this show will primarily fo...

Bard College Young Composers: Jun 11, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

In this very special edition of WGXC’s “Overlooked,” listeners will be treated to performances of works by young composers from Bard College. With the help of composer and Bard Music Conservatory Prof...

More Newly Released Music: May 28, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

Continuing New Music May, this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature nearly two dozen brand new pieces of music with the typical “Overlooked” wide-ranging mix of sounds and styles. There...

Newly Released Music: May 14, 2024: 12pm - 2pm

After three consecutive thematic programs, “Overlooked” will devote the month of May to newly released music. In this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain, host Rob Saffer will spin nearly two dozen...

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...