During this WGXC pledge drive, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will treat listeners to a wide variety of newly released music, including noisy rock, recently discovered jazz, several duets, a piano block of Gorecki, Byard, Mingus and Messiaen, international and vocal music, and even a cover of the Grateful Dead’s "Dark Star,” among other overlooked gems. 

Playlist: 

Upstart - Sons of Ra

Dark Star - The Third Mind

Aku San Zan - sef.iin

Drop Out - Gnod & White Hills

A.G.C.A.T. - Burndy

First it was a movie, then it was a book - Florry

You Don’g Have to Suffer - Stander

Whatever’s Left Part 2 - Gold Dust

Transition - Phily Haynes, Ben Monder

Lev’s Loops (for Ljova) - Sam Sadigursky, Nathan Koci

Supreme - Sam Sadigursky, Nathan Koci

Fatman - Of Tropique 

Koko Cherokee - Charles Mingus

Prelude 4, Molto allegro quasi presto (Gorecki) - Jan Lisiecki

Excerpts from European Episodes - Hollis Stomp - Jaki Byard

Solo piano improvisation - Charles Mingus 

Prelude 3, Le nombre leger (Messiaen) - Jan Lisiecki

Endless Wandering - Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland

Ya Allah Ank Zinat - Abu Saber 

Bog an Lochan - Brighde Chaimbeul

Along the Orange Light - Alex Patton 

I Won’t Go - Ringdown 

Sting Quartet in G minor, Anime et tres Decide (Debussy) - Nash Ensemble

“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.