This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will celebrate the centennial birthdays of Miles Davis (May 26) and John Coltrane (September 23) through recordings of them playing together. Coltrane, at Miles' invitation, joined what became Davis' "first great quintet" in 1955, along with pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones. Together, they recorded over four score tunes across 15 or more studio and live albums, culminating in 1961. This program will focus on recordings from two box sets: Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings (1955-61); and Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Final Tour, Bootleg Series Vol. 6, 1960 (Columbia). 

Playlist: 

Prelude: On Green Dolphin Street (The Bootleg Series)

Theme: Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

Ah-Leu-Cha (Complete Columbia Recordings)

Tadd’s Delight

Two Bass Hit

Straight, No Chaser

Milestones

All Blues

Teo

If I Were A Bell

Walkin' (The Bootleg Series)

Oleo

‘Round Midnight

So What

The Theme

“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.