Ta-Ta 2020: Jan 12, 2021: 12pm - 2pm

In this broadcast, host Rob Saffer says ta-ta, bye-bye, and good riddance to 2020 by playing the last new releases of the decade, featuring new vocal music in languages ranging from Farsi to Yiddish,...

Cantaloupe and Beethoven: Dec 22, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

The broadcast will feature new music from Cantaloupe Music, the recording label created by Bang on a Can founders and composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe. Plus a tribute to the 250th...

20201209: Dec 09, 2020: 8pm - 9pm

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...

New, New Amsterdam Records: Dec 08, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

This broadcast will highlight the artist-run, nonprofit recording label New Amsterdam Records. The label focuses on album-based music without walls or an agenda. A diverse selection of new, New Amster...

20201125: Nov 25, 2020: 8pm - 10pm

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...

The Sixth Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 24, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

Overlooked presents the sixth annual "Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music.” Past Tryptophanfests were created to present an array of music so unlistenable that you would want to turn off...

20201111: Nov 11, 2020: 8pm - 10pm

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...

Under Three: Nov 10, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

There is a noticeable and welcome trend toward shorter, sometimes miniature compositions that pack lots of musical information into a short period of time. This broadcast will highlight new releases u...

Lots of Guitars: Oct 28, 2020: 8pm - 10pm

Rebroadcast from Oct. 27, 2020, “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 fami...

Lots of Guitars: Oct 27, 2020: 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...

Newly Released Music from All Over: Oct 14, 2020: 10pm - 11:59 pm

In this broadcast, host Rob Saffer will play a wide-ranging selection of recordings from all over the place, Belarus to Brooklyn, Mali to Massachusetts. Fully aware that the previous installment of “O...

Newly Released Music from All Over: Oct 13, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

In this broadcast, host Rob Saffer will play a wide-ranging selection of recordings from all over the place, Belarus to Brooklyn, Mali to Massachusetts. Fully aware that the previous installment of “O...

Newly Released String Music for a Strung-out End of Summer: Sep 08, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

This broadcast will focus on new recordings featuring string instruments, primarily violins, violas, cellos, and basses. There will be much beauty and intensity, along with plenty of droning and the u...

Squeaky, Moody Newly Released 'Rock': Aug 25, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

In this broadcast, brand new music widely considered 'rock' though most is sonically harder to characterize. The first hour will feature moody, short pieces generally two to four minutes in length whi...

Newly Released Jazz: Aug 11, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

This broadcast will feature two hours of un-square new recordings that fit squarely into the jazz idiom. Featured musicians include Rudresh Mahanthappa; Dave Douglas; Matt Wilson; Alan Braufman; Rez A...

Oliver Nelson: Jul 28, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

In this broadcast, an examination of the brief and often-overlooked career of composer, arranger, bandleader and reed musician Oliver Nelson, who died of a heart attack in 1975, at the age of 42. Nels...

Long and Summery-Slow: Jul 14, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

This live remote broadcast will feature only five (maybe six) long, often droney, sometimes summery-slow pieces, all released in 2020: Jupiter Quartet (Ligeti Quartet #1); Sun of Goldfinger (“Congratu...

Juneteenth, Black Live Matters, New Releases: Jun 23, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

This broadcast will honor Juneteenth and the Black Lives Matter movement with music by Ben LeMar Gay, Max Roach, Matthew Evan Taylor, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Jefferson Airplane (really?);...

Sonnys and Monks: Jun 12, 2020: 8pm - 10pm

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,...

Sonnys and Monks: Jun 09, 2020: 1pm - 3pm

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,...

May Days and New Releases: May 26, 2020: 1pm - 3pm

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...

New Releases: May 12, 2020: 1pm - 3pm

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...

New Releases: Apr 28, 2020: 1pm - 3pm

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

2020 Big Ears Festival, But Not: Apr 14, 2020: 1pm - 3pm

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...

New Music 2020: Mar 10, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

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...

New Music from 2020, Pledge Drive Edition: Feb 25, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

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...

June Tyson: Feb 11, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Last Licks of 2019: Jan 28, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Duke Ellington Suites: Jan 14, 2020: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Recent Releases: Dec 24, 2019: 12pm - 2pm

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...

More Kind-of-New Releases: Dec 10, 2019: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 28, 2019: 8pm - 10pm

Rebroadcast from 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 ac...

Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 26, 2019: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Mary Halvorson: Nov 13, 2019: 10pm - 11:59 pm

This rebroadcast from Nov. 12, 2019 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 play...

Mary Halvorson: Nov 12, 2019: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Recent Releases: Oct 22, 2019: 12pm - 2pm

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...

The Book Beri'Ah: Oct 08, 2019: 12pm - 2pm

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...

Metal Jazz: Sep 25, 2019: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Metal Jazz: Sep 24, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...

More New Releases: Sep 10, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...

Songs for My Sister: Aug 27, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...

Jeanne Lee: Aug 13, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...

New Releases Inching Toward 2019: Jul 23, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...

Almost New Releases: Jul 11, 2019: 8pm - 10pm

Rebroadcast from July 9, 2019. Host Rob Saffer continues to make his way through new releases from 2018, hopefully arriving at 2019 before the year is up. In this broadcast, music by PC Worship, Sungj...

Almost New Releases: Jul 09, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...

Jazz 1964: Jun 25, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...

Kind of New Releases, Pledge Drive Edition: Jun 11, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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,...

Bowl of RaMen: May 28, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...

New[ish] Releases: May 14, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...

Charles Mingus: Apr 23, 2019: 12:05 pm - 2pm

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...