Word: frenesi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference before you can expect it to go along on new things." He thought a band made up just about like the one that had first won him fame & fortune ten years ago (eight brasses, five saxophones and a rhythm section), playing old Shaw specials like Begin the Beguine, Frenesi and Dancing in the Dark, might lure his strayed followers back into the tent. Once they were in, perhaps he could give them Prokofiev, Ravel, Berezowsky et al. in small doses...
Over the Messerschmitt plant at Brunswick last week, the Flying Fortress Frenesi squared away for her second run at the target. Then the fighters came, twin-engine jobs that slammed rockets into the formation, snub-nosed 190s that whirled through the Fortresses with their guns spitting like alley cats...
...Frenesi, with steady Lieut. William Cely of Houston, Tex. in the pilot's seat, got her bombs away all right, but she had been hurt; she was "a mess of holes and ribbons." The fighters hung on. Said Gunner Sergeant Everett Hudson Jr. of West Point, Miss...
Back home in England, Frenesi, with Copilot Jabez Churchill of Santa Rosa, Calif. helping Cely in the wrestle with the controls, staggered into an airdrome, landed right side up, stopped. Mechanics appraised her damage with quick professional eyes: most of the tail shot away, one wingtip gone, fuselage and wings holed more times than they could count until they got her in the dispersal station...
...Chicago days. Consequently, their music can't be anything but authentic. Better still, the tames they play (Panama, Muskrat Ramble, Sugar, That's A'Plenty), are all products of the twenties, and therefore the correct vehicle for the unique Chicago style. Sure, if you want, they'll play Frenesi for you (with a few dirty looks thrown in), but why bother with that? It's not their kind of music. You'll see what I mean when you hear them get together or a last chorus of, say, Muskrat Ramble with everybody in there driving for all he's worth...