Barney McAll

This is where you can check out various music I have composed for film.

FILMOGRAPHY

Motherland Afghanistan

Feature documentary by Sedika Mojadidi

Aubin Pictures, NY

PBS to Air January 2007

AFI film festival

Kathy Griffin Show "My life on the D list"

Picture This Television

Plimpton and Debevoise Documentary

Awareness Films, NY

Hide and Seek

20th Century Fox

Liberia: An Uncivil War

Feature by Jonathan Stack for Discovery Channel - New York

Times. Winner IDA courage under fire award

Winner Special Jury Prize, International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam

Two Emmy Nominations

Sacco and Vanzetti

feature documentary by Peter Miller/Ken Burns Florentine

Films

Peter Berner's Loaded Brush

ABC/film Australia

Brother to Brother

feature film by Rodney Evans

Winner IFP Gordon Parks Screen writing

Winner outfest Film festival Grand Jury Prize

Audience Award and best Actor Roger Robinson

Winner New York Showtime Vanguard award

Winner Sundance film festival special Jury Prize

Freaks Like Me

-short film by David Holbrooke

Home Time

feature documentary by Edwina Throsby

Solstice

featuring Kate Ceberano

Adelaide International

Festival

Necessidades

-Feature comedy

Mullaway

-Feature Drama

Barney McAll is a musical conjurer of the highest order

-CMJ WEBSITE REVIEW

"...impassioned"

- LA TIMES

Using space and simplicity, Barney McAll conjures mighty music

-KEN MICALLEF

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 cityâs 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

âœThe key factor is the way McAll layers and combines the different voices within the ensemble, the different elements of each composition ; the use of repetition is especially effective, whether to build tension or to mesmerize the listener. Every track evokes a different mood, and the temptation to play the album repeatedly is strongâ.

-the Bulletin

Steve Riech, Morton Feldman, John Cage, John Adams,

Ligeti, Debussy, Ravel,

Miles Davis, Paul Bley,

Radio Head, Bjork, Autechre