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After the local news at noon, a celebration of the life of Charles Mingus, considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century American music, born 100 years ago on April 22, 1922. To honor this bassist, composer, and bandleader, the broadcast will exclusively feature a single new recording, just released on Resonance Records, Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s. Like Duke Ellington before him, most of Mingus’s recordings featured groups composed of musicians who had played with him for years. This recording is different; the sextet was newly configured, and while it featured Mingus veterans Charles McPherson and Bobby Jones on reeds, it also included new members Roy Brooks on drums, John Foster on piano, and the 19-year-old John Faddis on trumpet. It was recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London on August 14 and 15, 1972, and the tapes were only recently discovered. The broadcast will include about two-thirds of the two-CD set. Host Rob Saffer has not previewed or reviewed, listened and re-listened, obsessively sequenced, or heard a single note of this music. He will be experiencing it for the first time along with listeners who tune in live.

“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 the shadow of Overlook Mountain in Ulster County.

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

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