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Kurtág — Játékok, interpreted by Pierre-Laurent Aimard

I am going through my vinyl collection today and can offer the following great Mosaic vinyl box set for sale.   The Complete Commodore Jazz Recordings, Volume 2 23 LP, Mosaic, 1989   Everything is in Excellent to Near Mint condition - outer box, 2 inner slipcases, records, booklet. This is a very nice cop. All records are flat and play fine. https://www.discogs.com/release/8460405-Various-The-Complete-Commodore-Jazz-Recordings-Volume-II   $150 (+ $19 insured media mail shipping for this very heavy box set) U.S. shipping only. I can only ship on the weekend. Pay pal friends/family.  

Spinning this new-to-me LP again:

BFT 263 1 – This is a really interesting track, I like it quite a bit, and can’t wait to find out what it is.  No ideas on ID’s. 2 – Joni Mitchell (which hopefully will fool no one), “Black Crow”.  A live version with, sounds like, Brecker and Jaco.  The original was on ‘Hejira’.  Is this from the Archives 4 box set that came out?  I can probably sleuth it out if so.  It’s good. 3 – I like that they use acoustic piano on this.  The guitarist is impressive.   But the cut leaves me fairly cold, though it’s OK. 4 – Quite the eclectic BFT, I’m enjoying that aspect!  They had more fun recording this than I’m having listening to it, the first clunker for me, though there are probably others who will dig it.  I saw it’s only four minutes long, but it felt much longer. 5 – Antidote to #4.  It’s good, and it’s pretty, though not something that would pull me back.  Could almost be a Windham Hill artist.  Deeply influenced by those initial Keith Jarrett ECM solo albums, as so many are. 6 – This will be Dan Gould’s favorite cut.  I like it OK.  Functions great as background music for me, I don’t hear any barriers being broken, but am enjoying it. 7 – I’m enjoying this!  No guesses, but good singer, and I could see a whole album by her possibly working for me. 8 -  Good listening, quite enjoyable!  Can’t see anyone disliking this, it’s so solid. 9 – A Cole Porter oldie done by one of the most celebrated jazz singers.  Cut #5 from this . 10 – Good for what it is, but from before my listening domain. 11 – She was a great, sadly undersung jazz singer, one of my all-time favorites!  Cut #6 from this . 12 – This sort of thing is totally lost on me. 13 – This is nice, very soothing.  Good arrangement. Thanks for a really good listen and for drawing attention to the singer on #11, I am excited to get the ID on that first cut!  

Looking forward to SUN RA - American Masters on PBS.