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In this broadcast, an ear feast of newly released music, all styles, all over the place: music collage, skittish polkas, slippery strings, noisy guitars, noisy pianos, new jazz, old jazz, new chants, old chants, mycelial ambiance, Senegalese freak-folk, Japanese space-folk, Avant southern rock, trance rock, Ornette Coleman and more. Musicians featured: Miguel Zenon, Colin Cannon, Dopolorians, Michael Gregory Jackson, Swafford and Swanson, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Alfred Schnittke, Cecil Taylor, Joe Lovano, Shai Maestro, Josquin Des Prez, Lisel and Booker Stardrum, Satomimagae, Lizzard, Birthday Ass, Plankton Wat, Magnet Animals, Thumbscrew, Wau Wau Collectif, Petra Haden, Landlady, Matthew White and Lonnie Holley.

After the local news at noon, “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.