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Earlier this year Byrne, the leader of Talking Heads, assembled a sampling of 1970s Brazilian pop on the Fly/Sire Records album Beleza Tropical: Brazil Classics Vol. I. This month a follow-up collection, O Samba: Brazil Classics Vol. 2, is due to appear, along with Rei Momo, Byrne's solo album based on Brazilian and other Latin song styles. Simon is planning to include Brazilian- inspired material in his next album, scheduled for release in early 1990. Gabriel, whose new Real World label focuses on non-Western music, based his score for the film The Last Temptation of Christ...
...LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOL. 1: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry (Viking; $29.95). Greene may be the most elusive big fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, but this fascinating, obsessively detailed biography hooks him solidly. Hardly a question about the author goes unanswered, and Greene's best years, those of The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair, are yet to come...
BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE QUINTESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY, VOL. 5 (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces). Working with legendary producer John Hammond and pianist Teddy Wilson, Billie turned out some of her greatest hits in these 1937-38 sessions: He's Funny That Way, My Man, Nice Work If You Can Get It. All that and more on this outstanding digital reissue...
BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE QUINTESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY, VOL. 5 (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces). Working with legendary producer John Hammond and pianist Teddy Wilson, Billie turned out some of her greatest hits in these 1937-38 sessions: He's Funny That Way, My Man, Nice Work If You Can Get It. All that and more on this outstanding digital reissue...
JASCHA HEIFETZ: THE DECCA MASTERS, VOL. 2 (MCA Classics). Jascha plays Gershwin! And Stephen Foster! And Irving Berlin! The greatest violinist who ever lived, in dazzling arrangements of It Ain't Necessarily So, Old Folks at Home and White Christmas, among other American bonbons. Those were the days...