Overlooked

<p>As 2025 looms on the horizon, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer is eager to share what’s left of worthy 2024 new releases: in this case mostly jazz and world music. The early December cornucopia includes covers of three jazz masters, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Fletcher Henderson, along with guitar-centric improvisations, European jazz and world music from the Middle East to West Africa via Chicago.</p><p>Playlist:&nbsp;</p><p>Vitus Labrusca (“Overlooked” theme) - Ben LaMar Gay</p><p>Theme for Contrails - Squanderers</p><p>Two Times Water - Wendy Eisenberg</p><p>Cupcakes One - The Bad Plus</p><p>Imani (Faith) - Anthony Branker</p><p>Embrace the Contradictions - Spinifex</p><p>Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue - Thumbscrew</p><p>Fables of Faubus - Jeff Lederer</p><p>Yeah Man - Sun Ra Arkestra</p><p>Ornette Goes Home - Jenny Scheinman</p><p>Dee Dee - Tarbaby</p><p>All of the colours are singing - Jessica Ackerley</p><p>what i don next makes no sense at all - Patrick Shiroishi</p><p>The Simp - Max Jaffe</p><p>Rojo - Juanma Trujillo</p><p>Tara - Nicole Mitchell &amp; Ballake Sissoko&nbsp;</p><p>Bodouin’s Way - Sussan Deyhim &amp; Richard Horowitz</p><p>Intissar - El Khat</p><p>Spinning Away - Brian Eno &amp; John Cale</p><p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

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