Barre Phillips and ​​György Kurtág Jr. Face á Face  ECM Records   Luminary avant-jazz bassist Barre Phillips and György Kurtág Jr., son of the well-known Hungarian composer and an electronic musician, join together on Face á Face. Kurtág uses a variety of synths, providing both pitched material and percussion to complement Phillips’ bass-playing. It might not be a pairing one would have readily thought of, even with Phillips’ long pedigree of collaborations, but Face á Face is a compelling recording.    The album opener, “Beyond,” finds the two in a cat-and-mouse game, Kurtág beginning