Episode 15 - Barney McAll

Hello everyone,

This is Mirko Guerrini, and I welcome you to the Jazz Transcription Clinic, a monthly interviews podcast where we talk with accomplished jazz doctors about their lives, careers and their personal transcription secrets. 

On this episode of the Jazz Transcription Clinic Podcast, Mirko Guerrini interviews the guest jazz doctor: Barney McAll

Listen to Barney's answers to the questions below: 
Why do you transcribe? 10:06
What do you expect to learn from a transcription? 26:15
How do you choose solos? 29:02
What is your transcribing methodology? 34:32
Do you write it down? 51:22
How do you practise the solos? 59:30
How do you incorporate transcriptions into your playing? 01:19:38
Who was the most difficult one to transcribe? 01:20:26
What is your favourite solo that you transcribed? 01:22:00

Link to:
Ben Gerstein COLTRANE BODY (Dance)
https://youtu.be/Xqw514Kx1Go

Ben Gerstein Interview with Barney
https://youtu.be/yGCPB9y0ySQ

Barney McAll (born Melbourne, Australia, 1966) is a jazz pianist and composer who lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Barney McAll  joined saxophonist Gary Bartz‘s band in 1997. 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.

His ensembles include “M.O.D.A.S”, “Sylent Running”, “GRAFT” , ASIO (Australian Symbiotic Improvisers Orbit) TQX featuring Sia and his  “Non Compliance Trio”.

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 2016.

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, Peter Apfelbaum, Billy Harper, Daniel Merriweather and Vernel Fournier.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 McAll won Best Jazz Album for Mooroolbark.[1]

McAll is partial to unleashing surprises himself, whether they be radical dynamic shifts –
such as suddenly reducing a solo to the merest trickle of notes against thrumming bass
and whispered cymbal chatter – or just finding bewitchingly unexpected turns to take in
developing a melody. Masterful.
-SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

You can check Barney McAll here:
https://barneymcall.com/

www.patreon.com/barneymcall

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