Barney McAll

Barney McAll
Barney McAll
	McAll in New York City
Background information
Birth name	Barnaby Jonathan McAll
Born	1966; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, arranger
Instrument(s)	Piano, Keyboards, Bul Bul Tarang, Chucky
Labels	ABC Classics; Jazzhead; Transparent Music; Extra Celestial Arts
Website	barneymcall.com

Barney McAll (born Melbourne, Australia, 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". He completed his Bachelor of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, and studied in New York and Cuba. Barney is the brother of pianist John McAll.

His 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.

He was awarded the Australia Council Fellowship in 2007 and worked as musical director for Australian vocalist Sia from 2011 to 2012.

McAll is the 2015 recipient of the Peggy Glanville-Hicks composer residency in Sydney, Australia and has curated the APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards from 2019 to 2022.

He has played in 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, Daniel Merriweather and Vernel Fournier. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 McAll won Best Jazz Album for Mooroolbark.^[1]

Discography

Albums

List of albums with selected details
Title	Details
Exit	Released: 1995 Format: CD Label: ABC Jazz (4798192)
Widening Circles	Released: 1998 Format: CD Label: AIJA Recording (009)
Release the Day	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 '	Released: 2005 Format: CD, Digital Label: Jazzhead (HEAD066)
Baby Winter (with Genji Siraisi)	Released: 2005 Format: CD, Digital Label: KUFALA Recordings (KUF0129)
Flashbacks	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	Released: 2022 Format: LP,Digital Label: Extra Celestial Arts (ExtraArts 004)

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, July 2, 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
2019 – The Art Of Fighting – Luna Low
2020 – Daniel Merriweather – “Rain” – (Rain Recordings)
2020 – Jazz 100 selected Highlights – ABC
2020 – Third Wing (with Rob Vincs)
2020 – MIJF – These Digital Times Compilation
2021 – Martha Marlow – Dont Want To Grow Up
2021 – Gian Slater – Grey Is Ground
2021 – Dewey Redman – Live In Chicago (Extracelestial Arts)
2021 – Billy Harper Quartet – Live In Brooklyn (Extracelestial Arts)

Collaborator

1998 – Jonathan Zwartz, Hamish Stuart, Barney McAll – Zeeks Beek ABC/EMI
2005 – Jody Watley, Ron Trent, Barney McAll – Saturday Night Experience
2005 – Barney McAll, Genji Siraisi – Baby Winter
2006 – Barney McAll, Badal Roy, Rufus Cappadocia – Vivid
2008 – George Schuller, Barney McAll, Matt Pavolka – That Trio This
2009 – Sylent Running – Empathy Chip
2014 – Trio Feral – Don’t Feed
2020 – Seven Wonders Compilation – Wondercore Island/Plug Seven
2020 – WatArtists Compilation – At Clouds Length
2020 – Third Wing (with Rob Vincs)
2021 – Sex On Toast – Take Your Mask Off

Arranger

1996 – Vince Jones – Trustworthy Little Sweethearts
1997 – Vince jones – Future Girl
1998 – Vince Jones – Here’s to the Miracles
1999 – Vince Jones – Virtue
2000 – Vince Jones – Live
2006 – Pamela Luss – There’s Something About You I Don’t Know
2007 – Pamela Luss – Your Eyes
2008 – Pamela Luss – Magnet
2008 – Paulette McWilliams – Flow
2010 – Tom Scott with Paulette McWilliams – Telling Stories
2010 – Rebecca Barnard – Everlasting

Producer

1997 – Vince Jones – Future Girl
1998 – Vince Jones – Here’s to the Miracles
2006 – Barney McAll, Badal Roy, Rufus Cappadocia – Vivid
2009 – Jacam Manricks – Labyrinths (Co-Producer)
2009 – Sylent Running – Empathy Chip
2010 – Rebecca Barnard – Everlasting (Co-Producer)
2012 – Brad Jones – Avant Lounge (Ropeadope Records) (Co-Producer)
2018 – Global Intimacy – TQX (Extra Celestial Arts)
2019 – Michael Jordan – AIM (Co-Producer)
2019 – An Extra Celestial Christmas –(Extra Celestial Arts)
2020 – Daniel Merriweather – “Rain” – (Rain Recordings) (Co-Producer)
2021 – Gian Slater – Grey Is Ground
2021 – Sex On Toast – Take Your Mask Off (Co-Producer, Co-Composer)
2022 – Precious Energy – (Extra Celestial Arts)

Solo Albums Producer

1996 – Exit (Jazzhead)
2000 – Release the Day (Transparent Music/Jazzhead)
2005 – Mother of Dreams and Secrets (Jazzhead)
2009 – Flashbacks (Extracelestial Arts)
2011 – Blueprints (Jazzhead)
2011 – Recollections – Best Of (Jazzhead)
2012 – Graft (Jazzhead)
2013 – Swirl Cauldron Swirl (Extra Celestial Arts)
2013 – Solo Piano Live (Extra Celestial Arts)
2015 – Mooroolbark (ABC Jazz)
2017 – Hearing The Blood (Extra Celestial Arts)
2018 – Zephyrix with Monash Art Ensemble (Extra Celestial Arts)
2018 – Global Intimacy – TQX (Extra Celestial Arts)
2022 – Precious Energy – (Extra Celestial Arts)

Film Score Credits

The Forgotten Australians – SBS Broadcasting Group
Pushing The Elephant – PBS
The Position – Second Act Films
We All Fall Down – The American Mortgage Crisis
Overhere – Documentary – Reelworks/ Chanel Thirteen
Bayshore – A Small Piece of The World
Water Flowing Together – Gwendolen Cates/ PBS
I Am Ahmed Ahmed
Motherland Afghanistan – Aubin Pictures/ Independent Lens
Hide and Seek – 20th Century Fox
Kathy Griffin – Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Face Value
Sacco and Vanzetti – Documentary by Peter Miller/ Ken Burns Florentine Films
Peter Berner’s Loaded Brush – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Liberia: An Uncivil War – Discovery/Times
Brother to Brother – Rodney Evans- Independent Lens
Freaks Like Me – Giraffe Partners
Solstice
Homecoming- Edwina Throsby
Otto and Lumilla – John C Williams
Necesidades- Fernando de France
Facing The Dragon- Sedika Mojadidi
Gertie’s Law – Supreme Court Podcast

Compositional Works

1993 “Diminuet” Exploring the possibilities of the miniature (La Mama, Carlton, VIC)
1999 ¡¡EMANCIPATE THE DISSONANCE!! with Slave Pianos (Lombard-Freid Fine Arts NYC)
2004 Two lives in flux – and vice versa Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 “Vanishing Point” collaboration with video artist Janet Biggs (Claire Oliver Gallery NYC)
2015 “The Unanswered Question (once touched, remains unknown) ” The University of Houston Choral Chorale Choir with Janet Biggs
2016 Zephyrix – Monash Art Ensemble
2016 Transitive Cycles – Federation Bells Commission, City Of Melbourne
2017 “Attrocity Slave” – Slave Pianos – Moscow Stations / Last Stop East – Part II – Continent of Sorrow
2018 “Trilogy Of Cycles” – Federation Bells Commission, City Of Melbourne
1999 ¡¡EMANCIPATE THE DISSONANCE!! with Slave Pianos (Lombard-Freid Fine Arts NYC)
2004 Two lives in flux – and vice versa Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 “Vanishing Point” collaboration with video artist Janet Biggs (Claire Oliver Gallery NYC)
2015 “The Unanswered Question” for UH Chorale Choir with Janet Biggs
2015 ZEPHYRIX for Monash Art Ensemble

Awards and nominations

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.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
AIR Awards of 2012	Graft	Best Independent Jazz Album	Nominated
AIR Awards of 2015	Mooroolbark	Best Independent Jazz Album	Won

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.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1993	"Hindered On His Way to Heaven" (with Vince Jones)	Best Jazz Composition	Won

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.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref.
1996	Exit	Best Jazz Album	Nominated	^[2]
2012	Graft	Best Jazz Album	Nominated
2015	Mooroolbark	Best Jazz Album	Won
2018	Hearing the Blood	Best Jazz Album	Nominated
2019	Zephyrix	Best Jazz Album	Nominated
2022	Precious Energy	Best Jazz Album	Pending	^[3]

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.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2018	Hearing The Blood	Excellence In Jazz	Nominated

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.^{[citation needed]}


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2006	Mother of Dreams And Secrets	Best Jazz Album	Nominated
2010	"Flashback"	Best Jazz Song	Nominated
2010	Flashbacks	Best Contemporary Jazz Album	Nominated
2012	"Nostalgia for the Present"	Best Jazz Song	Nominated
2012	Graft	Best Contemporary Jazz Album	Nominated
2014	TRIO FERAL: DONT FEED	Best Contemporary Jazz Album	Nominated
2016	"ASIO"	Best Ensemble	Nominated
2016	Mooroolbark	Best Jazz Album	Won
2016	"Nectar Spur"	Best Jazz Song	Won
2017	ASIO	Best Ensemble	Won
2017	Hearing the Blood	Best Album	Won
2017	Hearing the Blood	Best Produced Album	Won
2017	"Love Is The Blood"	Best Jazz Song	Nominated
2019	Zephyrix	Best Instrumental Jazz Album	Nominated
2019	Zephyrix	Best Produced Album	Won

Australian Music Prize


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2018	Zephyrix	Best Album	Nominated
2022	Precious Energy	Best Album	Nominated

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. ^{[citation needed]}


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2007	People People, Music Music	Best Independent Jazz Album (With Groove Collective)	Nominated

Music Victoria Awards

The Music Victoria Awards are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2006.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref.
2015	Mooroolbark	Best Jazz Album	Won	^[4]^[5]
2018	Hearing The Blood	Best Jazz Album	Nominated	^[4]^[5]
2022	Barney McAll	Best Jazz Work	Pending	^[6]

Other 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

References

^
ARIA Music Awards for Barney McAll:
- Search Results 'Barney McAll': "Search Results for 'Barney McAll'". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- 1996 winners and nominees: "Winners by Year 1996". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- 2012 winners and nominees: "Winners By Year 2012". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- 2015 nominations: Baroni, Nastassia (7 October 2015). "Courtney Barnett, Hermitude, Tame Impala Lead 2015 ARIA Award Nominations". musicfeeds.com.au. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- 2015 winners: "And the ARIA Awards Goes to..." Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 27 November 2015. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^ ARIA Award previous winners. "ARIA Awards Best Jazz Album". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 26 June 2022.
^ Lars Brandle (12 October 2022). "Rüfüs Du Sol Leads 2022 ARIA Awards Nominees (Full List)". The Music Network. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
^ "Previous Nominess". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
^ "Previous Winners". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
^ "Music Victoria Awards 2022 Nominees for Industry-Voted Categories Announced". Music Victoria. 27 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.

External links

[ARIA_List-1] ARIA Music Awards for Barney McAll:
Search Results 'Barney McAll': "Search Results for 'Barney McAll'". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 23 December 2015.

1996 winners and nominees: "Winners by Year 1996". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

2012 winners and nominees: "Winners By Year 2012". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 23 December 2015.

2015 nominations: Baroni, Nastassia (7 October 2015). "Courtney Barnett, Hermitude, Tame Impala Lead 2015 ARIA Award Nominations". musicfeeds.com.au. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

2015 winners: "And the ARIA Awards Goes to..." Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 27 November 2015. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

[2] Search Results 'Barney McAll': "Search Results for 'Barney McAll'". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 23 December 2015.

[3] 1996 winners and nominees: "Winners by Year 1996". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

[4] 2012 winners and nominees: "Winners By Year 2012". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 23 December 2015.

[5] 2015 nominations: Baroni, Nastassia (7 October 2015). "Courtney Barnett, Hermitude, Tame Impala Lead 2015 ARIA Award Nominations". musicfeeds.com.au. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

[6] 2015 winners: "And the ARIA Awards Goes to..." Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 27 November 2015. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

[JazzAlbum-2] ARIA Award previous winners. "ARIA Awards Best Jazz Album". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 26 June 2022.

[2022ARIAnoms-3] Lars Brandle (12 October 2022). "Rüfüs Du Sol Leads 2022 ARIA Awards Nominees (Full List)". The Music Network. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

[4] "Previous Nominess". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.

[5] "Previous Winners". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.

[2022industrynom-6] "Music Victoria Awards 2022 Nominees for Industry-Voted Categories Announced". Music Victoria. 27 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.

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