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 Jazz1993 Winner ARIA Award for Best Jazz Composition "Hindered On His Way To Heaven" (with Vince Jones)1996 Nominated ARIA Award Best Jazz Album : EXIT1998 Best Jazz Composition Award from NSW Jazz Action society2006 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 Fellowship2010 Bell Award nomination Best Song : Flashback2010 Bell Award nomination Best Contemporary Jazz Album : Flashbacks2012 AIR Award nomination Best Jazz Album : Graft2012 Nominated ARIA Award Best Jazz Album : Graft2012 Bell Award nomination Best Song "Nostalgia For The Present"2012 Bell Award nomination Best Jazz album : Graft2014 Bell Award nomination Best Contemporary jazz album : Trio Feral :Don't Feed2015 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Residency2015 Winner ARIA Award Best Jazz Album : Mooroolbark2015 Winner Australian Independent Record Labels Association Best Jazz Album : Mooroolbark2015 Winner The Age Music Victoria Awards Best Jazz Album : Mooroolbark2016 Bell Award nomination Best Produced Album2016 Bell Award nomination Best Ensemble "ASIO"2016 Winner Bell Award Best Jazz Album2016 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 20171993 – Vince Jones – It All Ends Up In Tears1993 – Bill Ware – Groove Thing (Eight Ball)1994 – Kate Ceberano and Friends – ABC1996 – Vince Jones – Trustworthy Little Sweethearts1996 – Dale Barlow – Dale Barlow1997 – Vince Jones – Future Girl1997 – Tim Rollinson – Cause + Effect Mercury Records1997 – Jack Lee – Poong-Un – Nuevo1998 – Vince Jones – Here's to the Miracles1998 – Slave Pianos – A Diagnosis Revolver Records1999 – Vince Jones – Virtue1999 – The Whitlams – Love This City1999 – Groove Collective – Declassified (Shanachie)1999 – Gary Bartz – Live At The Jazz Standard2000 – Phil Stack – Lucky You2000 – LIVE and Hard to Find Groove Collective2000 – Richard Worth – Rise (Giant Step)2001 – Vincent Herring – Save The World2001 – Ron Trent2001 – 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 22002 – Ron Trent – Musical Reflections2002 – David Rex – Collision Course2002 – Wangaratta Live – Jazzhead2002 – Groove Collective – Brooklyn, NY 04.20.02 (live album) (Kufala Records)2003 – Red Lotus – Make Way2003 – Greg Gonzales – X=X2003 – Jacam Manricks – Skies the Limit2003 – Greta Gertler – The Baby That Brought Bad Weather2004 – Jay Rodriguez and Ron Trent – Batidos2004 – DJ Jazzy Jeff – In The House2004 – Fred Wesley and The JB's – Wuda Cuda Shuda2004 – Paul Williamson's Hammond Combo – A Month Of Mondays2005 – The Modern Congress – The Hidden Soul of Harmony (Casa Del Discos)2005 – Fabio Morgera – The Voice Within2005 – The Jay Collins Band – Poem For You Today2006 – Josh Roseman – 'Treats for the Night Walker2006 – Groove Collective – People People Music Music Savoy Records2006 – Greta Gertler – Pecadillo2007 – Groove Collective – PS1 Warm Up:Brooklyn, NY, July 2, 2005 (live album) (Kufala)2007 – Umberto Echo – Dub Trail2007 – Jojo Kuo – No Kelen Kelen – Goin Native Records2008 – Josh Roseman – Constellations: live in Vienna (ENJA)2008 – Jo Lawry – I Want To be Happy2009 – Jonathan Zwartz – The Sea2009 – Julien Wilson / Steve Magnusson – Kaleidoscopic (Jazzhead)2009 – Sa-Ra – Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love2010 – Rebecca Barnard – Everlasting2010 – Tom Browne – S'Up (Pony Canyon)2010 – Sia Furler – iTunes – Live in Sydney2011 – Andy Bey – Companions Of The Lost Ark – ILM Recordings2012 – 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 Records2012 – The Universal Thump – The Universal Thump2013 – Jonathan Zwartz – The Remembering and Forgetting Of The Air2013 – 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 Laswell2014 – Aaron Comess – Aaron Comess Quintet2015 – Julien Wilson – This Narrow Isthmus ( Lionshare Records)2016 – Alice Bierhorst – The Beacon1998 – Jonathan Zwartz, Hamish Stuart, Barney McAll – Zeeks Beek ABC/EMI2005 – Jody Watley, Ron Trent, Barney McAll – Saturday Night Experience2005 – Barney McAll, Genji Siraisi – Baby Winter2006 – Barney McAll, Badal Roy, Rufus Cappadocia – Vivid2008 – George Schuller, Barney McAll, Matt Pavolka – That Trio This2009 – Sylent Running – Empathy Chip2014 – Trio Feral – Don't Feed1996 – Vince Jones – Trustworthy Little Sweethearts1997 – Vince jones – Future Girl1998 – Vince Jones – Here's to the Miracles1999 – Vince Jones – Virtue2000 – Vince Jones – Live2006 – Pamela Luss – Theres Something About You I Don't Know2007 – Pamela Luss – Your Eyes2008 – Pamela Luss – Magnet2008 – Paulette McWilliams – Flow2010 – Tom Scott with Paulette McWilliams – Telling Stories2010 – Rebecca Barnard – Everlasting1997 – Vince Jones – Future Girl1998 – Vince Jones – Here's to the Miracles2006 – Barney McAll, Badal Roy, Rufus Cappadocia – Vivid2009 – Jacam Manricks – Labyrinths (Co-Producer)2009 – Sylent Running – Empathy Chip2010 – 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 GroupPushing The Elephant - PBSWe All Fall Down - The American Mortgage CrisisOverhere - Documentary - Reelworks/ Chanel ThirteenBayshore - A Small Piece of The WorldWater Flowing Together - Gwendolen Cates/ PBSI Am Ahmed AhmedMotherland Afghanistan - Aubin Pictures/ Independent LensHide and Seek - 20th Century FoxKathy Griffin - Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-ListFace ValueSacco and Vanzetti - Documentary by Peter Miller/ Ken Burns Florentine FilmsPeter Berners Loaded Brush - Australian Broadcasting CorporationLiberia: An Uncivil War - Discovery/TimesBrother to Brother - Rodney Evans- Independent LensFreaks Like Me - Giraffe PartnersSolsticeHomecoming- Edwina Throsby1993 "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, Lithuania2009 “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 Biggs2015 Zephyrix - Monash Art Ensemble2016 Transitive Cycles - Federation Bells Commission, City Of Melbourne2017 "Attrocity Slave" - Slave Pianos - Moscow Stations / Last Stop East - Part II - Continent of Sorrow