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This pre-recorded broadcast from Overlooked Mountain will be the first installment in a multipart series focused on music by musicians with creative and fanciful nicknames. Along the way, we’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 kickoff “Jazz Nickname Project” broadcast. 

Playlist: 

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

Careless Love - Warren “Baby” Dodds

Swingin’ at Sugar Ray’s - Roosevelt “Baby Face” Willette

Bag’s Groove - Milton “Bags” Jackson 

The Bite - William Godvin “Beaver” Harris

Red Cross - Charles “Bird” Parker

Rhythm King - Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke

Avars - Richard Allen “Blue” Mitchell

Poppin’ - Ivan Joseph “Boogaloo” Jones

Mutt & Jeff - Henry “Boots” Mussulli 

Blues With A Feelin’ - James Wesley “Bubber” Miley

Special B.C. - William Dorsey “Buck” Clayton

Barefoot Adventure - Clifford Everett “Bud” Shank

A Night in Tunisia - Earl Rudolph “Bud” Powell

Blues - William Marcel “Buddy” Collette

Broadjump - Boniface Ferdinand Leonard “Buddy” DeFranco

Just Blues - Bernard “Buddy” Rich

Jive at Five - George Holmes “Buddy” Tate

The Girls Go Crazy - Willie Gary “Bunk” Johnson

Afternoon in Africa - William C. “Buster” Bailey

Lovejoy - Lawrence Douglas “Butch” Morris 

Dancing in the Dark - Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley

El Gato - William Alonzo “Cat” Anderson

“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.