This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature nearly two dozen brand new recordings in a variety of genres. Listeners will hear a slew of guitar-laden tunes, modern big band jazz, and contemporary classical pieces from artists such as Roy Montgomery, The Messthetics, Sleaford Mods, Maria Schneider, Bill Frisell and Missy Mazzoli.

Playlist:

Prelude - Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

Immaculate Ignition - Roy Montgomery

Approach and Avoidance - Bentley Anderson

Flowers - Harriety Tubman & Georgia Anne Muldrow

Wonder - Max Kutner

Snp Sng - Tyrone Allen II

Rules of the Game - The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis

Autopsied Cloudburst - Brandon Seabrook

Tonic - Geologist

Megaton - Sleaford Mods

Boys with Toys - Mike Johnson (not speaker of the House!)

Disentomb the Brain Function - Andrew MacKelvie’s Many Worlds

American Crow - Maria Schneider Orchestra

intro - Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie

Loop - Nicole McCabe

Curtis - Bill Frisell

Don’t Forget Your Guitar - Ben Monder and David Tronzo

sway - Leo Chang

So set its Sun in Thee - Kevin Puts, Joyce Donato

The Usual Illusion - Missy Mazzoli, Gautier Capucon

The Orangery - Caroline Shaw, Pekka Kuusisto & the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

The Unwishing Well - Alicia Lazaro

Estuary (excerpt) - Travis Laplante

“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.