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Barney McAll born. 1966 Melbourne, Australia
Pianist, keyboardist, composer and arranger, Barney McAll grew up in Melbourne, Australia
and received a Bachelor of music from the Victorian College Of The Arts in 1991. From 1989-1997 Barney worked
with Australian artists such as Vince Jones, Kate Ceberano and Renee Geyer, touring Australia and Europe. He moved to New York City in 1997 after being invited to join The Gary Bartz quartet and continues to tour internationally with Gary Bartz as well as with Fred Wesley and The JB's, Josh Roseman, Groove Collective and recently vocalists Daniel Merriweather and Sia Furler.
He leads numerous ensembles including;
SYLENT RUNNING and MODAS (Mother Of Dreams And Secrets).
Barney has also written the scores for multiple films including ;
Pushing The Elephant (PBS)
Liberia: An Uncivil War (DISCOVERY/ NY TIMES)
Motherland Afghanistan (PBS)
We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis (PBS)
Nominated for a Grammy award in 2007 and also awarded the prestigious fellowship from the Australian
Council for the Arts for 2007-2008 .
Barney has performed or toured with ; Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dewey Redman, Maceo Parker, Doug Devries, Kenny Garrett, Vernel Fornier, Badal Roy, Stefon Harris, Jimmy Cobb, Eddie Henderson, Gary Costello, Ben Monder, Mark Turner, Peter Apfelbaum, Bernie Worrell, Alan Browne, Billy Harper, Jim Black, Steve Turre and Roy Ayers.
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GRATITUDE TO TEACHERS
Mulgrew Miller, Aydin Essen, Charlie Banacos, Mike Nock, Walter Bishop Jr, The Hon. Barry Harris, Larry Goldings, Jim Beard, Bruce Barth, Charlie Banacos, Dave Kikoski, Doug Devries, Paul Grabowsky
In Cuba ; Chucho Valdez, Ramon Valle, Adres Alen, Olavo Alen, Peruchin Jnr.
NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
Smithsonian Institute with Gary Bartz Quartet
The Lithuanian World Music Festival
The Santa Clara Jazz Festival ,Cuba
Barney McAll Quartet European tour featuring Billy Harper
The Barney McAll Octet - featured as part of the ABC TV Jazz documentary “The Pulse”
Yugoslavia and Italy with The Barney McAll Quartet featuring Alto Saxophonist Jessie Davis
Ass. Musical Director for CNR Gospel Choir NY
Melbourne Jazz Festival, The Perth Jazz Festival
Akaroa Jazz Festival New Zealand with Barney McAll unit
Village Vanguard New York Gary Bartz Quartet
Musical Director for "Gospel Extravaganza", Sydney Town Hall
The Jazz Standard NY- Barney McAll Flashbacks Septet
COMPOSING AND ARRANGING
-Gospel Choir piece “Vanishing Point” collaboration with video artist Janet Biggs for Claire Oliver Gallery NYC
-New compostions for Guitar, Vibraphone and Piano and Voice premiered at The Stone NYC June 2008
-Sturgio Leone for Three Trombones and piano / Josh Roseman’s Water Surgeons
-New Works for Tabla, Cello and Kaval “Motherland Afghanistan”
-Various arrangements for The CNR Gospel Choir
-Overture for the Opera; 'Two Lives In Flux and Vice Versa' with Slave Pianos Collective
-Vincent Herring’s “Lady Liberty Big Band” performance Carnegie Hall
Featuring; Seamus Blake, Tom Harrell, Richie Goods, Steve Turre, Greg Hutcherson, Pamela Luss
-Renee Geyer and Octet Melbourne International Festival
-Slave Piano Collaboration with artists Danius Kesminas and Michael Stevenson for Lombard Freid Gallery Soho New York
See Also FILMOGRAPHY for Film Composing
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McAll is partial to unleashing surprises himself, whether they be radical dynamic shifts -
such as suddenly reducing a solo to the merest trickle of notes against thrumming bass
and whispered cymbal chatter - or just finding bewitchingly unexpected turns to take in
developing a melody. Masterful.
-SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Barney McAll is a musical conjurer of the highest order
-CMJ REVIEW
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 is a special piano player with that certain heart and touch, so he has great possibilities.
He's a genuine musician, not just a skilled artist. There's a certain touch that I'm talking about.
It's hard to explain, but he has that
-BILLY HARPER
Using space and simplicity, Barney McAll conjures mighty music.
-ALL ABOUT JAZZ
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
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