In most years, very little new music gets released in December and January, so it takes some time for “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer to gather enough new music worthy for listeners’ ears. Now, there’s enough freshly baked new 20205 releases for a full show, and this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature them in a variety of styles: from acapella prison choirs and jazz from Switzerland, Norway and the U.S., to edgy neo-Classical and a mashup of classical and jazz musicians playing alongside traditional Chinese musicians and instruments such as the pipa. By serendipitous design, most have single word titles. Finally, this show is in honor of Susan Alcorn, the pedal steel player who died suddenly last week, and Soft Machine keyboardist Mike Ratledge who died last on February 5. May their music be a blessing.  

Playlist: 

Hibou, Anemone & Bear - Soft Machine

R.U.R.- Susan Alcorn

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

Parchman Prison Blues - Parchman Prison Prayer

3 Lijm - The Young Mothers

Yikes - Tim Berne

Highway - Ydivide

40b - Steve Lehman

Poplar - Nicola Miller

Framedoodle - Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim & Joey Chang

TYPUS - Stemeseder Lillinger with Craig Taborn

Tunneled Throat - Dream Brigade

3 Untamed - Compersion Quartet

Haiti - Bro, Frisell, Konitz, Moran, Morgan & Cyrille

Fuster - Allison Miller 

Three - The Knights 

Bloomed - Ambrose Akinmusire

vis-a-vis - Lei Liang

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.