Dr. Dani Sanchez, MFA, PhD (She/Her/They/Them)

Sorry I can’t watch with y’all tonight, #CultShelf friends. Again, still in the hospital but good news is that I’m going home Thursday morning🎉 I hope y’all enjoy “Lady Snowblood” for me b/c it’s a phenomenal film and that everyone has a wonderful week💕

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Meiko Kaji in “Lady Snowblood” (1973)
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Japanese posters for “Lady Snowblood” (1973)
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Alice Coltrane plays us out.. thanks for tuning in! If you can, pls drop by #MusComEnt tomorrow for “Bend It Like Beckham” (info⤵️) #LaEsoterica will return next week with an exploration of language.. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday night💕

You can check out the entire performance of Alice Coltrane at The 1987 Jazz Jamboree here (youtube.com/playlist?lis...)
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Our final piece is a performance of “A Love Supreme” by Jazz composer, multi-instrumentalist and Hindu spiritual leader Alice Coltrane (youtu.be/NsHt1wA8ul0?...) from the 1987 Jazz Jamboree in Poland.
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Here’s D.A. Pennebaker’s early 1950s Soundie/Short Film “Daybreak Express” (youtu.be/9fZ0-T80YD8?...) featuring music by Duke Ellington. The film is centered around the NYC route of a soon-to-be demolished Manhattan train.
#LaEsoterica #DukeEllington #DAPennebaker #jazz #NYC

More free jazz? MORE FREE JAZZ! This time it’s a 1990 live version of “Spelling the Alphabet” by multi-instrumentalist Ornette Coleman (youtu.be/nEoPJTlypgo?...) originally from his 1988 album “Virgin Beauty” (youtube.com/playlist?lis...)
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In addition to using instruments both traditional and modern, The Art Ensemble of Chicago also uses invented instruments. Some of their performances have utilized at least 500 different instruments and noise makers
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The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an Avant Garde free jazz and arts collective that has been making music and performing since the 1960s.
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Next we have a live set by the avant-garde free jazz collective The Art Ensemble of Chicago at the 1970 Festival de Jazz de Châteauvallon (youtu.be/gUUfu4lTdL8?...) I don’t’ want to say too much goin into this so just sit back and experience this.
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“Amaryllis” By The Mary Halvorson Sextet (youtu.be/qm7YKlfnlTU?...) is centered around the avant-garde jazz guitar work of Mary Halvorson. This song is from her 2022 album “Amaryllis” (youtube.com/playlist?lis...)
##LaEsoterica #MaryHalvorson #jazz

It comments on the innovations of Black musical history while acknowledging the ongoing fight for civil rights. It was incredibly controversial for these reasons and the frank discussions between the multi-racial cast at the center of the film
#LaEsoterica #TheCryOfJazz #Jazz #SunRa #SunRaArkestra

Part documentary, part musical ethnography, “The Cry of Jazz” (1959) was conceived by the composer Edward Bland, novelist Mark Kennedy, city-planner Nelam Hill, and mathematician Eugene Titus
#LaEsoterica #TheCryOfJazz #Jazz #SunRa #SunRaArkestra

It’s sooo good! I really hope it sees a physical media release

Time for our first feature presentation: “The Cry of Jazz” (1959) directed by Edward O. Bland (youtu.be/fE00fzXpI04?...) and featuring the music of poet, musician and Afro-Futurist Sun Ra and His Arkestra
#LaEsoterica #TheCryOfJazz #Jazz #SunRa #SunRaArkestra

Betty Boop in “Snow-White” (1956) utilizes rotoscoping techniques that transferred Cab Calloway’s signature dance moves to animated characters
#LaEsoterica #BettyBoop #CabCalloway #Jazz #animation

Now for something completely different: The 1933 Fleischer cartoon “Betty Boop in “Snow-White” (youtu.be/cKOSJ5AAwfc?...) featuring music by legendary Jazz bandleader and composer Cab Calloway
#LaEsoterica #BettyBoop #CabCalloway #Jazz #animation

This CBS special would form the foundations of 2 new Alvin Ailey ballets: “The Mooche” and “Night Creature”.
#LaEsoterica #AlvinAiley #DukeElllington #Jazz #dance

Towards the end of his life, Duke Ellington became both friends & collaborators w/Alvin Ailey. A fan since his teenage years, Ailey felt it was one of his life’s missions to honor his musical idol esp. in the light of his spring 1974 passing
#LaEsoterica #AlvinAiley #DukeElllington #Jazz #dance

Excerpts from 1974’s “CBS Special: Ailey Celebrates Ellington” (youtu.be/wSsu-owfz2w?...) featuring dance pieces choreographed by Alvin Ailey in honor of the life and works of Jazz legend Duke Ellington.
#LaEsoterica #AlvinAiley #DukeElllington #Jazz #dance

There’s a lot of strobing & intense sounds in this week’s #LaEsoterica offerings. If this isn’t for you I can recommend the PBS “American Masters” doc. “Sun Ra: Do The Impossible” about the life & work of poet, musician and godfather of Afro-Futurism Sun Ra (www.pbs.org/wnet/america...)
#SunRa #Jazz

Norman McLaren made “Blinkity Blank” (1955) by engraving directly onto black film leader. The soundtrack even combines with the sounds of McLaren scratching onto the film's optical soundtrack with Blackburn’s compositions
#LaEsoterica #NormanMcLaren #MauriceBlackburn #jazz #animation

First up we have the animated short film “Blinkity Blank” (1955) (youtu.be/q3YeWgUgPHM?...) directed by Scottish-American animator and filmmaker with music composed by Maurice Blackburn
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Sorry I can’t watch with y’all tonight #ImpromptuTheater friends. I’m still in the hospital & still feeling pretty exhausted but I should be going home later in the week. Hope y’all enjoy tonight’s film for me💕 (posters & such for tonight’s film⤵️) (bsky.app/profile/anal...)

Of course, the true stars of “The End” (1978) are these very good kitties
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