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As 2025 looms on the horizon, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer is eager to share what’s left of worthy 2024 new releases: in this case mostly jazz and world music. The early December cornucopia includes covers of three jazz masters, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Fletcher Henderson, along with guitar-centric improvisations, European jazz and world music from the Middle East to West Africa via Chicago.

Playlist: 

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

Theme for Contrails - Squanderers

Two Times Water - Wendy Eisenberg

Cupcakes One - The Bad Plus

Imani (Faith) - Anthony Branker

Embrace the Contradictions - Spinifex

Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue - Thumbscrew

Fables of Faubus - Jeff Lederer

Yeah Man - Sun Ra Arkestra

Ornette Goes Home - Jenny Scheinman

Dee Dee - Tarbaby

All of the colours are singing - Jessica Ackerley

what i don next makes no sense at all - Patrick Shiroishi

The Simp - Max Jaffe

Rojo - Juanma Trujillo

Tara - Nicole Mitchell & Ballake Sissoko 

Bodouin’s Way - Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz

Intissar - El Khat

Spinning Away - Brian Eno & John Cale

After the 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 familiar to rare, classic to weird. Live from Overlook Mountain in Ulster County.

Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation. 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.