There’s never enough time to play choice tracks during the year they’re recorded; the queue is always longer than “Overlooked” air-time. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature 19 tasty leftovers from 2024: post-Metal; psychedelic Turkish and Cumbia; Ghanian high life; jazz in big and small band settings from the U.S. and abroad; a bunch of modern chamber music; and an excerpt of the Messiaen symphony that features the airy, swooping wail of the Ondes Martenot. 

Playlist: 

Yapraklarin Arasindan - Baba Zula

Cumha Uisdein - Harvestman

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

End of the Line - The Body

Adam - Sock

Santi Murder - Mourning (A) BLKstar

Spirit Moves in an Arc - Mark Trecka 

Shining House - Kyle Brenn

El Vorrh - Julian Mayorga

Obra Akyedzi - Ebo Taylor

Puerto de Oro - Aracan

Jonesville - Moppa Elliott

Cool Code - John Hollenbeck & NDR Big Band

Five Eateries (in New England) - Anna Webber

Sad Trophy - Goldberg, Sicafoose, Amendola'

Euforila - Tomascz Stanko Quartet

Ashes to Gold Part 2 - Avishai Cohen 

cycles of growth - Shabaka Hutchings & esperanza spalding

Valencia (Shaw) - Katia and Marielle Labeque

Voodoo Dolls (Montgomery) - Apollo Chamber Players

Electric Counterpoint - Fast (Reich) - Dessner, Chalmin

Turangalila Symphonie, Section 8: Developement d’Amour (Messiaen) - Yuja Wang, Cecille Lartigau, Andris Nelsons & the BSO

After the 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 Overlook Mountain in Ulster County.

Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation. 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.