Barney McAll (born January 3, 1966) is a jazz pianist and composer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. McAll joined Gary Bartz's band in 1997, and has also played with the Josh Roseman Unit, Fred Wesley and the JB's, Groove Collective, and Kurt Rosenwinkel's "Heartcore".
Early life and education Barney McAll completed his Bachelor of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, and later studied in New York with Charlie Banacos and Barry Harris, and in Cuba with Chucho Valdés.[citation needed] He is a lecturer in jazz and improvisation at the University of Melbourne. He is the brother of pianist John McAll.
Career McAll's ensembles include M.O.D.A.S, GRAFT, ASIO (Australian Symbiotic Improvisers Orbit), and Non-Compliance. His most recent ensemble is Precious Energy, which features members from Hiatus Kaiyote, Laneous, and Rita Satch. He released a political Black Mirror pop album in 2018 called Global Intimacy under the pseudonym TQX which features Sia, Kool A.D., Cormega, and Sirah.
He worked as musical director for Australian vocalist Sia from 2011 to 2012.
He has played on over 100 albums as a sideman and has recorded or toured internationally with musicians such as Dewey Redman, Roy Ayers, Maceo Parker, Jimmy Cobb, Eddie Henderson, Aloe Blacc, Bernie Worrell, Peter Apfelbaum, Billy Harper, and Vernel Fournier.
Other activities McAll curated the APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards from 2019 to 2023.
Barney authored a book titled As The Flow Cries – 365 Music Maxims, which presents 365 insights into music drawn from his experience touring and exploring the world of improvised music.
Recognition and awards 1990: Winner, Jazz Piano Award at the Wangaratta Festival Of Jazz 1998: Best Jazz Composition Award from NSW Jazz Action society 2007–2008: Australia Council Fellowship 2015: Peggy Glanville-Hicks composer residency in Sydney
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 McAll won Best Jazz Album for Mooroolbark.ARIA Music Awards for Barney McAll: Search Results 'Barney McAll': 1996 winners and nominees: 2012 winners and nominees: 2015 nominations: 2015 winners:
AIR Awards The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognize, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.
! |- |2012 |Graft |Best Independent Jazz Album
|2015 |Mooroolbark |Best Independent Jazz Album
| 2023 | Precious Energy | Best Independent Jazz Album or EP
APRA Awards The APRA Awards are held in Australia and New Zealand by the Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| 1993 | rowspan="2"| "Hindered On His Way to Heaven" (with Vince Jones) | Best Jazz Composition
ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.
! |- | 1996 | Exit | Best Jazz Album | |rowspan="5"|ARIA Award previous winners. |- | 2012 | Graft | Best Jazz Album
| 2015 | Mooroolbark | Best Jazz Album
| 2018 | Hearing the Blood | Best Jazz Album
| 2019 | Zephyrix | Best Jazz Album
| 2022 | Precious Energy | Best Jazz Album
Art Music Awards The Art Music Awards are presented each year by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) to recognise achievement in the composition, performance, education and presentation of Australian music. Art music covers activity across contemporary classical music, contemporary jazz and improvised music, experimental music and sound art.
| 2018 | Hearing The Blood |Excellence in Jazz
Australian Jazz Bell Awards The Australian Jazz Bell Awards (also known as the Bell Awards or The Bells), are annual music awards for the jazz music genre in Australia.
! |- | 2006 | Mother of Dreams And Secrets | Best Jazz Album
| 2010 | "Flashback" | Best Jazz Song
| 2010 | Flashbacks | Best Contemporary Jazz Album
| 2012 | "Nostalgia for the Present" | Best Jazz Song
| 2012 | Graft | Best Contemporary Jazz Album
| 2014 | TRIO FERAL: DONT FEED | Best Contemporary Jazz Album
| 2016 | "ASIO" | Best Ensemble
| 2016 | Mooroolbark | Best Jazz Album
| 2016 | "Nectar Spur" | Best Jazz Song
| 2017 | ASIO | Best Ensemble
| 2017 | Hearing the Blood | Best Album
| 2017 | Hearing the Blood | Best Produced Album
| 2017 | "Love Is The Blood" | Best Jazz Song
| 2019 | Zephyrix | Best Instrumental Jazz Album
| 2019 | Zephyrix | Best Produced Album
Australian Music Prize
| 2018 | Zephyrix | Best Album
| 2022 | Precious Energy | Best Album
Grammy Awards The Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or just Grammy, is an award presented by the Recording Academy to recognize "Outstanding Achievement in the music industry" of the United States.
|2007 |People People, Music Music |Best Independent Jazz Album (With Groove Collective)
Music Victoria Awards The Music Victoria Awards are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2006.
! |- | 2015 | Mooroolbark | Best Jazz Album | |rowspan="2"| |- | 2018 | Hearing The Blood | Best Jazz Album
| 2022 | Precious Energy | Best Jazz Work
Discography Albums + List of albums with selected details Title Details Exit (ft. Jimmy Cob & Vincent Herring) Released: 1995 Format: CD Label: ABC Jazz (4798192) Widening Circles (ft. Billy Harper, Ben Monder, Vincent Herring) Released: 1998 Format: CD Label: AIJA Recording (009) Release the Day (ft. Gary Bartz, Kurt Rosenwinkel & Joey Baron) Released: 2000 Format: CD Label: Jazzhead Vivid (with Badal Roy & Rufus Cappadocia) Released: 2005 Format: CD, Digital Label: Jazzhead (HEAD065) Mother of Dreams and Secrets ' (ft. Kurt Rosenwinkel & Billy Harper) Released: 2005 Format: CD, Digital Label: Jazzhead (HEAD066) Baby Winter (with Genji Siraisi) Released: 2005 Format: CD, Digital Label: KUFALA Recordings (KUF0129) Flashbacks (ft. Kurt Rosenwinkel) Released: 2009 Format: Digital Label: Barney McAll Blueprints Released: 2011 Format: CD, Digital Label: Jazzhead (HEAD113) Recollections Released: 2011 Format: CD, Digital Label: Jazzhead (HEAD113) Graft Released: 2012 Format: CD, Digital Label: Jazzhead (HEAD146) Chucky Vol.1Swirl Cauldron Swirl Released: 2013 Format: CD, Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts Solo Piano Live Released: 2013 Format: CD, Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts Mooroolbark Released: 2015 Format: CD, Digital Label: ABC Jazz (473 1260) Nourriture De L'Amour Released: 2015 Format: Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts Hearing the Blood Released: October 2017 Format: CD, Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts Zephyrix (with The Monash Art Ensemble) Released: 2018 Format: CD, Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts An Extra Celestial Christmas Released: December 2019 Format: CD, Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts Lockdown Hard Drive Pearl Dive Released: December 2020 Format: Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts Third Wing (with Robert Vincs) Released: June 2020 Format: CD, Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts Transitive Cycles Released: August 2021 Format: LP Label: Heavy Machinery Records (HEVMAC009) Precious Energy (ft. Gary Bartz & Hiatus Kaiyote) Released: 2022 Format: LP, Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts (ExtraArts 004) Precious Energy Re-Up (ft. Gary Bartz, Steve Spacek, Hiatus Kaiyote, Sampology) Released: 2023 Format: Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts (ExtraArts 005) Piano Memoirs from Peggy Glanville-Hicks House Released: 2023 Format: Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts (ExtraArts 006) Emerald Hands Released: 2023 Format: Vinyl LP Label: Extra Celestial Arts (ExtraArts 007) MonK KnoW : Explorations Of Thelonious Monk Released: 2026 Format: Digital (Bandcamp Only) Label: Extra Celestial Arts (ExtraArts 008)
Albums as a Sideman 1993 – Vince Jones – It All Ends Up in Tears 1993 – Bill Ware – Groove Thing (Eight Ball) 1994 – Kate Ceberano and Friends – ABC 1996 – Vince Jones – Trustworthy Little Sweethearts 1996 – Dale Barlow – Dale Barlow 1997 – Vince Jones – Future Girl 1997 – Tim Rollinson – Cause + Effect Mercury Records 1997 – Jack Lee – Poong-Un – Nuevo 1998 – Vince Jones – Here's to the Miracles 1998 – Slave Pianos – A Diagnosis Revolver Records 1999 – David Rex – Collision Course 1999 – Vince Jones – Virtue 1999 – The Whitlams – Love This City 1999 – Groove Collective – Declassified (Shanachie) 1999 – Gary Bartz – Live at the Jazz Standard 2000 – Phil Stack – Lucky You 2000 – LIVE and Hard to Find Groove Collective 2000 – Richard Worth – Rise (Giant Step) 2000 – DET Live! Vol. 2: Exclusive Live Performances from WDET-FM 101.9 Detroit 2001 – Vincent Herring – Save The World 2001 – Ron Trent 2001 – Groove Collective – Giant Step Record Sessions Vol.1 (Shanachie) 2001 – Groove Collective– It's All in Your Mind (Shanachie) 2002 – Groove Collective – Live And Hard To Find (live album) (Kufala Records) 2002 – Gary Bartz – Live at the Jazz Standard Vol 2 2002 – Ron Trent – Musical Reflections 2002 – Wangaratta Live – Jazzhead 2002 – Groove Collective – Brooklyn, NY 04.20.02 (live album) (Kufala Records) 2003 – Red Lotus – Make Way 2003 – Greg Gonzales – X=X 2003 – Jacam Manricks – Skies the Limit 2003 – Greta Gertler – The Baby That Brought Bad Weather 2004 – Jay Rodriguez and Ron Trent Olájopé – Batidos 2004 – DJ Jazzy Jeff – In The House 2004 – Fred Wesley and The JB's – Wuda Cuda Shuda 2004 – Paul Williamson's Hammond Combo – A Month Of Mondays 2005 – The Modern Congress – The Hidden Soul of Harmony (Casa Del Discos) 2005 – Fabio Morgera – The Voice Within 2005 – The Jay Collins Band – Poem For You Today 2006 – Jazzhead2006 – Jazzhead records compilation 2006 – Josh Roseman – 'Treats for the Night Walker 2006 – Groove Collective – People People Music Music Savoy Records 2006 – Greta Gertler – Pecadillo vocal feature "i'm not a lizard" 2006 – Ayla Napa Valley – Finest Ambient Tunes 2008 – Jazzhead – Jazzhead Vol 7. 2008 – Pamela Luss – Magnet 2007 – Groove Collective – PS1 Warm Up:Brooklyn, NY, 2 July 2005 (live album) (Kufala) 2007 – Umberto Echo – Dub Trail 2007 – Jojo Kuo – No Kelen Kelen – Goin Native Records 2008 – Josh Roseman – Constellations: live in Vienna (ENJA) 2008 – Jo Lawry – I Want To be Happy 2009 – Jonathan Zwartz – The Sea 2009 – Julien Wilson / Steve Magnusson – Kaleidoscopic (Jazzhead) 2009 – Sa-Ra – Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love 2010 – Umberto Echo – Dub the World 2010 – Rebecca Barnard – Everlasting 2010 – Blue Six – Noesis 2010 – Tom Browne – S'Up (Pony Canyon) 2010 – Sia – iTunes – Live in Sydney 2011 – Andy Bey – Companions Of The Lost Ark – ILM Recordings 2012 – Jazzhead12 – Jazzhead Records 2012 – Gary Bartz – Coltrane Rules: Tao of a Music Warrior (OYO Records) 2012 – Tim Rollinson – The Protagonist (The Modern Congress) 2012 – Brad Jones – Avant Lounge (Ropeadope Records) 2012 – Tim Clarkson – Evolution Of Beauty – Dangerous Music Records 2012 – The Universal Thump – The Universal Thump 2013 – Jonathan Zwartz – The Remembering and Forgetting Of The Air 2013 – Julien Wilson – This Is Always ( Lionshare Records) 2014 – Gary Bartz – Coltrane Rules: Tao of a Music Warrior Volume 2 (OYO Records) 2014 – Sparkler – Peter Apfelbaum – I Colored It In For You EP M.O.D. Technologies Bill Laswell 2014 – Aaron Comess – Aaron Comess Quintet 2015 – Julien Wilson – This Narrow Isthmus ( Lionshare Records) 2016 – Alice Bierhorst – The Beacon 2016 – Umberto Echo – Elevator Dubs 2016 – Jazztrack – Celebrating 40 Years – ABC 2017 – Sara Valenzuela – Fulgor 2018 – John Wesley Harding – Greatest Other Peoples Hits 2018 – Mike Rivett Quartet – Live At Cottage Point 2018 – Jonathan Zwartz – Animarum 2019 – Kian – Bliss – EMI Music 2019 – Laneous – Monstera Deliciosa- Soul Has No Tempo 2019 – Michael Jordan – AIM 2019 – How Much Is the Robot – Analog Bass Camp