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...

20230628: Jun 28, 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...

Out is In: Jun 27, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, for certain jazz musicians who recorded from the mid 1950s until 1970, going out — at times way out — was in. Eric Dolphy, Booker Little and Roy Haynes were among those a...

New Releases from Europe and the Middle East: Jun 13, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature newly released Middle Eastern music and contemporary Jazz primarily from the European record labels Akuphone, Clean Feed, and Intakt. Egypt fea...

20230524: May 24, 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...

Music + Words (Not Lyrics), Vol. 1: May 23, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature spoken word and poetry, backed by music of all types and styles, from jazz and dub to psychedelic and avant garde. Special guest, music archivis...

Newly Released Music: May 09, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature newly released music exploring a wide variety of sonic directions including unusual instrumentation and vocalizing. A primary focus will be on n...

Big Ears X: Apr 26, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

Each year at the end of March, sleepy Knoxville, Tennessee is taken over by hundreds of musicians from every corner of the world, for the Big Ears Festival. It's widely considered the most diverse mu...

Big Ears X: Apr 25, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

Each year at the end of March, sleepy Knoxville, Tennessee is taken over by hundreds of musicians from every corner of the world, for the Big Ears Festival. It's widely considered the most diverse mu...

Even More Newly Released Music!: Apr 11, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature the wide variety of genres and artists that “Overlooked” likes to spotlight on its programs of newly released music. It will include 18 tracks,...

Newly Released Music: Mar 28, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This pre-recorded broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 19 newly released tracks offering listeners a diverse sample of music being made today. The show will feature: diaspora jazz from London...

Ornette Through Others’ Ears Vol. 2: Mar 22, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

A celebration of composer/musician/philosopher Ornette Coleman, five days after what would have been his 93rd birthday. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 20 Coleman compositions...

Ornette Through Others’ Ears Vol. 2: Mar 14, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, a celebration of composer/musician/philosopher Ornette Coleman, five days after what would have been his 93rd birthday. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will fe...

First New Releases Show of 2023: Feb 28, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be the first “Overlooked” show of 2023 to feature newly released music: 21 pieces of all sonic shapes, sorts and sizes. Coming at the end of WGXC’s Win...

The Improvising King Crimson: Feb 14, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, two hours of the Improvising King Crimson. In the mid-1970s, the prog rock band King Crimson - John Wetton (bass, vocals), Bill Bruford (drums, percussion), David Cross (...

Jeremy Denk: Jan 25, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

After the local news at noon, 700 years of music with Jeremy Denk. The work of solo pianist Denk, a classical musician known for boldly mixing genres, styles, and eras will be featured during the broa...

Jeremy Denk: Jan 24, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, 700 years of music with Jeremy Denk. The work of solo pianist Denk, a classical musician known for boldly mixing genres, styles, and eras will be featured during the broa...

Horse Lords: Jan 10, 2023: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, two hours of the innovative music of Horse Lords, a Baltimore-based quartet that recently relocated to Berlin. Through five studio albums and four extended ‘mixtapes’ in...

21 from 2022: Dec 28, 2022: 10pm - 11:59 pm

After the local news at noon, the final “Overlooked” of 2022, featuring 21 new releases from 2022, highlighting the typically wide range of artists and styles associated with “Overlooked’s” newly rele...

21 from 2022: Dec 27, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, the final “Overlooked” of 2022, featuring 21 new releases from 2022, highlighting the typically wide range of artists and styles associated with “Overlooked’s” newly rele...

Newly Released Music: Dec 13, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, this live broadcast will feature the seemingly sonically disconnected grab bag of newly released musical oddities painstakingly sequenced to make sonic sense. The show wi...

Eighth Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 23, 2022: 10pm - 11:59 pm

This broadcast continues a WGXC tradition with the Eighth Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music to kick off the Thanksgiving weekend. Tryptophanfests are designed to get listeners to turn off the...

Eighth Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 22, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain in Ulster County, continues a WGXC tradition with the Eighth Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music. In addition to its reg...

Vote for America: Nov 08, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, an Election Day 2022 broadcast celebrating America, its triumphs, and its shortcomings, featuring American musical themes as well as pieces that are political in nature....

New Sounds, New Supporters: Oct 26, 2022: 10pm - 11:59 pm

This WGXC Tower Power Pledge Drive broadcast will feature an assortment of new sounds in the hope of attracting more new WGXC supporters. Host Rob Saffer will play a slew of guitar-driven jazz and imp...

New Sounds, New Supporters: Oct 25, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

This WGXC Tower Power Pledge Drive broadcast will feature an assortment of new sounds in the hope of attracting more new WGXC supporters. Host Rob Saffer will play a slew of guitar-driven jazz and imp...

Newly Released Music: Oct 12, 2022: 8pm - 10pm

After the local news at noon, listeners will be led through a variety of newly released recordings, connecting odd sonic dots, from straight-ahead jazz and panoramic synth-psych to Avant-hip hop jazz...

Newly Released Music: Oct 11, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, listeners will be led through a variety of newly released recordings, connecting odd sonic dots, from straight-ahead jazz and panoramic synth-psych to Avant-hip hop jazz...

John Gilmore Away from Ra’s Orbit: Sep 27, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, a broadcast celebrating the September 28, birthday of reed player, John Gilmore. Gilmore spent more than 40 years working almost exclusively with composer and bandleader...

Newly Released Music: Sep 13, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, a live broadcast of newly released music, with a special emphasis on guitars, psychedelic noisy metal, and new, improvised music (sometimes called jazz). Plus some "tradi...

Jazz Cellists (for Abdul Wadud): Aug 24, 2022: 8pm - 10pm

An exploration of the often overlooked world of jazz cellists, including Abdul Wadud who died at age 75 on August 10. As a memorial, this broadcast will feature improvising cellists as composers, band...

Jazz Cellists (for Abdul Wadud): Aug 23, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, an exploration of the often overlooked world of jazz cellists, including Abdul Wadud who died at age 75 on August 10. As a memorial, this broadcast will feature improvisi...

New Beats to Beat the Heat: Aug 09, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer will play a heat-stroke, fever-dream grab-bag of newly released music. This broadcast will explore leading edges in the blending of contemporary composed...

Phillip Pearlman: Jul 27, 2022: 10pm - 11:59 pm

After the local news at noon, this rebroadcast from July 26, 2022 from Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, NY, will explore the work of Phillip Pearlman, an obscure pioneer in psychedelic folk music. His...

Phillip Pearlman: Jul 26, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, NY, will explore the work of Phillip Pearlman, an obscure pioneer in psychedelic folk music. His personal story i...

More New Releases: Jul 12, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, live from Overlook Mountain, the broadcast will feature 20 newly released recordings that run the gamut from Egyptian jazz and heavy minimalism to odd experiments fusing...

New Releases: Jun 28, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

The plan for this broadcast did not start the way it ended. Many of the tunes included have a musical edge a bit sharper than host Rob Saffer originally envisioned. After the local news at noon, here...

Holy Rock 'n' Rollers: Jun 14, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, preachers and poets, mystics and misfits, saints and sinners, demons, demigods, gods, cultists, believers, and heretics are just a few of the themes and character...

Iannis Xenakis: May 24, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, music as architecture, the work of composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2021). His music is haunting, architectural and mathematical, otherworldly and sculptural, industrial and...

A Lot of New Releases: May 11, 2022: 10pm - 11:59 pm

After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer serves up a head-spinning selection of nearly 30 new releases, most relatively short in length. This rebroadcast from May 10, 2022 from Overlook Mountain...

A Lot of New Releases: May 10, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, host Rob Saffer serves up a head-spinning selection of nearly 30 new releases, most relatively short in length. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will serve up a...

Charles Mingus Centennial: Apr 26, 2022: 12pm - 2pm

After the local news at noon, a celebration of the life of Charles Mingus, considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century American music, born 100 years ago on April 22, 1922. To h...