On what would have been John Coltrane’s 99th birthday, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer will kick off this showcase of newly released music with a cover of Trane’s “Lonnie’s Lament.” It will be followed by a slew of new releases that vary in sound: ambient, straight jazz, twisted jazz, jazz/classical hybrids, palimpsestic noise, loopy saxes, oratorios, eerie vocal experiments, solo piano, whacky banjos, and heavy prog rock, among others. As it's also Rosh Hashanah, this program was pre-recorded - Shanah Tovah! 

Playlist: 

Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

Lonnie’s Lament - Rez Abbasi 

Lamenting the Colors of Me - Pan American & Kramer

Silt Remembrance - Luke Stewart

tewatatewenni - patrick brennan

Lajpat Nagar Sometimes - Tarun Balani

Rooms - Felipe Salles

Disappear by Fire - Object Collection

A Dance for Grounding - Chad Kouri

Umbra - GoGo Penguin

Jacob’s Ladder - Steve Reich

Three Horned Tooth Garden Beast Piercing - Alex Paxton

August 9 1999 - Molly Joyce

cosa rara - Lucretia Dalt

Echo Charlie Hotel Oscar - Teddy Abrams

Blues Orgasm - Matthew Shipp

Waldeinsamkeit - EZRA Collective 

Deliverdance - three-layer cake

Busters Last Stand - Ryan Truesdale

Just Passin’ Thru - Skullcap 

Breakers Part 1 - Motherf’ers JMB & Co. 

“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. A 'critic' for the annual Downbeat Magazine critics poll, Rob also curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue.