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“Overlooked” first hit WGXC's airwaves on October 22, 2015 with a show called “Couplets & Connections.” In a nod to that first show, host Rob Saffer will play newly released music from all corners of the musical spectrum, including a few pairings that connect either through a shared composition or shared band members. There will be some prog rock, undefinable rock, gnarly guitar jazz, big noise with and without vocals, contemporary composition mashups, along with a couple of couplets with hockets and Beethoven. The show will commence with “Overlooked’s” original theme song: Slim Gaillard’s “Slim’s Jam.” 

Playlist: 

Vitus Labrusca ("Overlooked" theme) - Ben LaMar Gay

Slim’s Jam - Slim Gaillard

En Route - Chrome Hill 

The Hasta Cloth - three layer cake

Strange Planet - Mf’ers JMB

Guardian Spirit - Swans

Dark Hymnal (scorpions from the sky) - David T. Little

Backtracks - Jim Black & The Schrimps

Full of Neon - Mary Halvorson

Sun Rays - Marty Ehrlich

Current Events - Jane Ira Bloom

Life Like Violence (circa 2003) - David Handler

MVE IV - Caimin Gilmore

Breaking Point - Brandee Younger

adjust (part 1) - Anna Webber/Anzu Quartet

String Quartet #6, Part 2, presto agitato - attacca - Mieczyslaw Weinberg/Telegraph Quartet

Hocket - Meredith Monk

Hocket - Maya Beiser

Piano Sonata #28, Op. 101, Part 2, Lebhaft - Beethoven/Sviatoslav Richter

Piano Sonata #28, Op. 101, Part 2, Lebhaft - Beethoven/David Korevaar

“Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and underplayed music of all varieties: jazz, improvisational, international, and other fringe music, ancient to future, familiar to rare, classic to weird. Broadcast live from Overlook Mountain in Ulster County, “Overlooked” offers programs focused solely on newly released music along with others that focus on specific musical themes or history.

Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation and Creative Music Studio. While living in Brooklyn for 25 years, he served on advisory boards for Celebrate Brooklyn! and Symphony Space. He also curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue. He is also a 'critic' for the annual Downbeat Magazine Critic's Poll.