This midsummer live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature newly released music, including lots of dissonant jazz and guitars, cellos in various formats, ornithological inspirations, a couple of recently uncovered ‘lost’ gems, poetic koans, archival music from Madagascar and Egypt, and more. 

Falafel Feast - Satoko Fujii

Playlist: 

Vitus Labrusca (Overlooked theme) - Ben LaMar Gay

Disintegration (Alabama Revisited) - Sons of Ra

Collectors of Social Dismay - Michael Gregory Jackson

Leave Unattended and Suffer the Consequences - stef.in

Sustained Nightmare - Ches Smith

Pararphernalia - Phil Haynes

Full of Neon - Mary Halvorson

Mansions of Madness - Dan Weiss

Trouble - Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness

Nonna’s Last Flight - David Murray

Even the Sparrow - James Brandon Lewis

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charles Mingus

The March (or Ornette Went to Miles’ House and They Didn’t Get Along) - Curlew

Vrbas vodo... - Vesna Pisarovic 

Koan 42 - Sara Serpa, Matt Mitchell

Koan 54 - Theo Bleckman, Ben Monder

Myth of Kluna - Kuunatic

Baed Al Yas Yjini - Reem Kamal

Je mitsiko ro mokotse - Mamehy

No Cones - Dietrichs 

“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 curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue.