After the local news at noon, this live broadcast wil feature a mix of newly recorded and released jazz and improvised music along with newly re-released older classics from the 1960s ‘free’ jazz movement. Listeners will hear a new crop of leaders on the contemporary jazz scene such as bassist Billy Mohler, saxophonist Joe Santa Maria, and vibist Yuhan Su along with vintage re-releases by free jazz icons such as trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon, Ornette Coleman, and the New York Art Quartet (Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Reggie Workman and Milford Graves).

Playlist:
Death Dances - Flying Pooka
South State Line Road - Christian Dillingham
Overlook theme/Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay
The 12th of December - Bill Dixon 7-tette
Sagittarius - Aaron Diehl and The Knights
Wade in the Water - James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet
Switched On - Todd Sickafoose
Ultraviolet - Billy Mohler
Apix Groob - Joe Santa Maria
Sloan - Blue Cranes
Insertion One - Myra Melford’s Fire & Water Quintet
Hassan’s Fashion Magazine - Yuhan Su
Abraham - Itamar Borochov
On the Beach - Jeff Lederer
Yerkinqn Ampele - Sunny Kim, Ben Monder, Vardan Ovsepian
European Echoes - Ornette Coleman
Rufus 3rd - New York Art Quartet
Old Gospel - Jackie McLean
Four - Albert Ayler with the Cecil Taylor Trio

“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. 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.

Overlooked Playlist Archive