"Frenesi" (Artie Shaw and Orchestra)

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August 11, 2017

"Frenesi" (Artie Shaw and Orchestra)

Artie Shaw went to Mexico for a vacation and came back with "Frenesi." Listen to that clarinet, now mellow, now a glissando smear. GIs in France after D=Day were taught to pronounce the French word for artichoke (artichaut) by saying the bandleader's name. -- DL

Posted by The Best American Poetry on August 11, 2017 at 05:34 PM in Adventures of Lehman, Feature, Music | Permalink

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman