Barney McAll (born Melbourne, Australia, 1966) is a jazz pianist and composer. Barney McAll moved to New York City from Australia in 1997 to join saxophonist Gary Bartz's band. As well as remaining to be a member of the Gary Bartz quartet, he also plays with the Josh Roseman Unit, Fred Wesley and the JB's, Groove Collective, and Kurt Rosenwinkel's "Heartcore". He completed a Bachelor of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, studying with pianists Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould and Mike Nock and with guitarist Doug Devries. He studied in New York with Barry Harris, Mulgrew Miller, Jim Beard and Aydin Esen.
His ensembles include "M.O.D.A.S", "Sylent Running", "GRAFT" and his most recent ensemble ASIO (Australian Symbiotic Improvisers Orbit). He was awarded the Australia Council Fellowship in 2007 and worked as musical director for Australian vocalist Sia Furler from 2011–2012.
Barney McAll is also the 2015 recipient of the Peggy Glanville-Hicks composer residency in Sydney, Australia.
He has recorded or performed internationally with many other musicians including Dewey Redman, Roy Ayers, Kenny Garrett, 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.
1990 Winner Jazz Piano Award at the Wangaratta Festival Of Jazz
1993 Winner ARIA Award for Best Jazz Composition "Hindered On His Way To Heaven" (with Vince Jones)
1996 Nominated ARIA Award Best Jazz Album : EXIT
1998 Best Jazz Composition Award from NSW Jazz Action society
2006 Bell Award nomination Best Jazz Album : MODAS (Mother Of Dreams And Secrets)
2007 Grammy nomination for best contemporary Jazz Album (people people, music music)
2007-2008 Australia Council Fellowship
2010 Bell Award nomination Best Song : Flashback
2010 Bell Award nomination Best Contemporary Jazz Album : Flashbacks
2012 AIR Award nomination Best Jazz Album : Graft
2012 Nominated ARIA Award Best Jazz Album : Graft
2012 Bell Award nomination Best Song "Nostalgia For The Present"
2012 Bell Award nomination Best Jazz album : Graft
2014 Bell Award nomination Best Contemporary jazz album : Trio Feral :Don't Feed
2015 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Residency
2015 Winner ARIA Award Best Jazz Album : Mooroolbark
2015 Winner Australian Independent Record Labels Association Best Jazz Album : Mooroolbark
2015 Winner The Age Music Victoria Awards Best Jazz Album : Mooroolbark
2016 Bell Award nomination Best Produced Album
2016 Bell Award nomination Best Ensemble "ASIO"
2016 Winner Bell Award Best Jazz Album
2016 Winner Bell Award Best Song "Nectar Spur"
1996 – Exit (Jazzhead)
1998 – Widening Circles (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) Release Oct 2017
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 – 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)
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 – David Rex – Collision Course
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 – 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 – Josh Roseman – 'Treats for the Night Walker
2006 – Groove Collective – People People Music Music Savoy Records
2006 – Greta Gertler – Pecadillo
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 – Rebecca Barnard – Everlasting
2010 – Tom Browne – S'Up (Pony Canyon)
2010 – Sia Furler – iTunes – Live in Sydney
2011 – Andy Bey – Companions Of The Lost Ark – ILM Recordings
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
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
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 – Theres 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
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)
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)
The Forgotten Australians - SBS Broadcasting Group
Pushing The Elephant - PBS
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 Berners 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
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
2015 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
