This pre-recorded broadcast from Overlooked Mountain will be the second installment in a multipart series focused on music by musicians with creative and fanciful nicknames. During this series you’ll hear from: a couple of Dukes, a Count, King and Prince; Slam, Slim and Slide; Tina, Tiny and Tootie; a whole bunch of Buddys and Sonnys; and a lot more spanning 1928 to 2014. “Overlooked” host Rob “Slim” Saffer will be joined by series collaborator Marc “Dusty” Epstein for this “Jazz Nickname Project” broadcast. 

Playlist: 

Vitus Labrusca (“Overlooked” theme) - Ben LaMar Gay

Hard Sock Dance - Benny Bailey

Theme from Captain Black - James Blood Ulmer

Crazelogy - Bud Freeman

Little Benny - Budd Johnson

Blackbird - Buddy Catlett

Buster’s Tune - Buster Smith

Prelude to Bird - Buster Williams

Lost - A Fickle Sonance - Butch Warren

Straight, No Chaser - Butter Jackson

Cap’s Blues - Captain John Handy

Fragments - Chick Corea

Liza - Chick Webb

It Don’t Mean A Thing If It A’int Got That Swing - Chico Hamilton

Blowin’ Up A Breeze - Chu Berry

Northwest Passage - Chubby Jackson

Mr. Cleanhead Blues - Eddie Cleanhead Vinson

You Talk A Little Trash - Cootie Williams

Swingin’ the Blues - Count Basie

Concerto for Cozy - Cozy Cole

Mohawk - Curley Russell

Things to Come - Dizzy Gillespie 

The Rake - Dizzy Reese

Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt

Bugle Call Rag - Doc Cheatham

Terry Time - Doc Severinsen

Easy Swing - Doc West

Dilated Pupils - Dodo Marmarosa

“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 co-curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue. Rob is also a judge for the annual Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll.