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Rhythmic textures woven and stretched with Passion

-NEW YORK TIMES

There was a virtual absence of familiar bop riffs, extended bop harmonies or precise bop rhythms. Instead, Rosenwinkel’s pieces offered turbulent, thickly textured waves of sound, mostly produced by Barney McAll’s impassioned keyboard work.

-LOS ANGELES TIMES

Barney McAll is a musical conjurer of the highest order

-CMJ WEBSITE REVIEW

Barney is a special piano player with that certain heart and touch, so he has great possibilities. Hes a genuine musician, not just a skilled artist. Theres a certain touch that Im talking about. Its hard to explain, but he has that"

-BILLY HARPER

Using space and simplicity, Barney McAll conjures mighty music

-KEN MICALLEF

McAll manages to intelligently integrate pop elements into his music and deserves much wider attention

-LOS ANGELES TIMES

McAll displays an immediate feel for each pattern and the stamina to sustain them without sounding automatic. McAll also contributed some of the most successful solos, playfully blending his parts of the arrangements with bleeding voicings and darting accents"

-THE BOSTON GLOBE

"(McAll’s) ability to craft memorable themes is matched by a feel for the atmospheric..Now established on the intensely competitive New York jazz scene, he plays here with some of the city’s leading musicians.His music is utterly contemporary, McAll demonstrating throughout that he is a talented composer as well as gifted keyboardist"

- ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

The revelation of the evening is pianist Barney McAll. Playing beneath the liquid passages of (Dewey) Redman, McAll carefully kneaded clusters of notes from his hands that I found devastating. He explored ideas with a dramatic flourish that had the audience in raptures"

-DRUM MEDIA